Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies with Mini Eggs

These malted chocolate chip cookies are a delicious twist on classic chocolate chip cookies. The addition of malted milk powder adds an amazing depth of flavour! Packed with dark chocolate chunks and chopped mini eggs, this is a small batch baking recipe that makes 12 chewy cookies, with no mixer needed. You can also freeze the dough to bake off just a few cookies at a time.

Hi hi! Just popping in here to share the recipe for these malted chocolate chip cookies. I made these small batch chocolate chip cookies with dark chocolate and mini eggs, but the dough is a super versatile base, so you can add whatever you like to it - extra easter candy, or just more chocolate to have a regular small batch malted milk chocolate chip cookie to add to your chocolate chip cookie recipe collection!

My Nutella recipe is also a recipe for Chocolate chip cookies with malted milk powder if you want to also add in something extra.

These are so, so good, and come together really easily with no mixer required. I have included instructions for freezing the dough if you like, although these don't last particularly long around here. If you are after a larger scale chocolate chip cookie recipe, check out my perfect chocolate chip cookies post! I also have a collection of recipes using malted milk if you're after a way to use up your jar!

Small Batch Mini Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies

These malted milk chocolate chip Cookies are small batch, so the recipe only makes 12-13 cookies. This is perfect if you only want to bake off a few at a time and freeze the rest of the cookie dough, or you don't need a full sized batch of cookies (as a baking blogger I usually have 5 or 6 things on the go here with testing so a small batch of cookies is my fave thing ever). These cookies are super easy to make.

• Melt the butter - These Chocolate Chip Cookies use melted butter rather than room temperature. I adapted my small batch chocolate chip cookie, and just used regular melted butter instead of using brown butter. Melted butter gives a lovely chew to cookies and I also love that you don't have to bring butter to room temperature.
• Whisk together wet ingredients - Pop the brown and white sugar, egg, and vanilla in a bowl and mix it all up.
• Add dry ingredients - The ingredient list for these cookies is pretty standard, with the addition of malted milk powder, which goes into the bowl along with the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Add the mix-ins - I made these mini egg chocolate chip cookies by adding in some chopped up mini eggs and dark chocolate. You can really do what you want here though - add in some milk chocolate chips too if you would like!
• Chill and scoop - This dough needs to rest for at least half an hour, but you can do up to overnight if you like.
• Bake - Press some extra bits and pieces onto the tops of the cookies, bake them off, scoot if you like, and then leave to cool and enjoy!

How to Freeze Cookie Dough

I love to having dough in my freezer. When I am testing I will often bake off two or three of the batch and then freeze the rest to have on hand for when the need strikes.

Freezing cookie dough is super simple. Scoop it out and then place it on a lined sheet pan. If you want to add extra chocolate to the tops, then do that now as you can't press it onto frozen dough easily. Place the dough into the freezer and leave it to harden, then transfer to an airtight bag, making sure to label the dough if you have more than one sort in your freezer. Then when it comes time to bake, you just bake the dough from frozen, but reduce the oven temperature slightly. Make sure to also add a few extra minutes on to the bake time to account for the frozen dough.

For a full breakdown on how to freeze cookie dough and how to bake cookies from frozen, check out my ultimate guide: How to Freeze Cookie Dough

Tips for perfect chocolate chip cookies

There are a few wee tricks that I use every time that I make chocolate chip cookie recipes, in order to get them to look as perfect as I can.

These tips are completely optional (except for baking using a scale), they are just little things that I use to get super pretty cookies that look nice and round!

The tips work especially well for recipes like these malted milk chocolate chip cookies which have chunky mix-ins such as mini eggs.

• Scoot your cookies. This involves cleaning them up when they come out of the oven by scooting them back into shape using a cookie cutter slightly larger than the cookie - scoot the hot cookie back into a circular shape.
• Press chocolate and mini eggs on top of the dough before baking. This step means that you get a nice distribution of mini eggs on the top of your cookie as it bakes.
• Add extra chocolate and mini eggs after baking. This is again an optional step, but I find that adding a few chopped mini eggs after baking looks super pretty.

For all my tips and tricks on perfect chocolate chip cookies, check out my mega base post: How to make perfect chocolate chip cookies

What is Malted Milk Powder?

These Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies have a slightly special ingredient, which is malted milk powder! Malted Milk Powder was initially made as a supplement for babies to help with their digestion.

Why add malted milk powder to cookies?

Malted milk powder lends an amazing flavour to baked goods - a super deep flavour profile, with notes of toasted milk. It's super hard to describe the flavour, but just trust me on this - it's so good. It keeps super well, so you can just grab a jar and have it on hand for adding into things. I used it for this Vanilla Malt Snack cake and it was so good.

What does malted milk powder do in cookies?

When you use malted milk powder in baking you don't have to adjust the flour quantity as it is an enhancer rather than a thickener, so you can pop it into lots of things. I get mine online.

What is a substitute for malted milk powder?

If you don't have malted milk powder then you can just leave it out! It adds a super nice depth of flavour though and so if you have been meaning to try it I highly suggest it. If you are outside of the US, Horlicks works well as a substitute I think!

Frequently asked questions

Can I substitute the mini eggs in the recipe?

Yes you can - if you don't have the mini eggs or you just don't want to use them, you can just sub in the same amount of chocolate. A mix of dark and milk would be yum here. Alternatively you could use any other Easter eggs that you have! NZ has caramel ones which would be super yum in here too.

What cookie scoop do you use?
I use a 2 Tbsp cookie scoop - I like this one. You can also weigh your dough balls if you don't have a scoop. Mine weighed about 55g each.

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