When I was a little girl growing up in San Francisco, there was a candy called Maltesers. They were malted milk balls. We loved these, not only for the taste of the candy, but because of the name. My heritage is from the Island of Malta. Such a tiny island with a HUGE personality.
Although, growing up, when someone asked “What is your nationality?” And we responded Maltese, no one knew what that was or where it was located. So, as a kid, when we saw the name of the candy, we made our parents buy it for us and that is why all loved the malted milk balls.
When I saw the chocolate powder mix at Cost Plus, I had to buy it. Right?!? But then I thought, I don’t want to drink it as a chocolate why not make cupcakes with the powder.
If you can’t find the powder, you can do two things for a substitute. One would be to buy malted milk balls and crush them or buy the Carnation brand malted milk powder and add unsweetened cocoa to it.
Ingredients
4 PP each without the glaze
5 PP with the glaze
- 2 cups unbleached white flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 Tablespoon Malted chocolate powder (aka Maltesers)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup 2% milk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
Directions
Preheat oven to 325
In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, malted chocolate powder and salt.
Stir in the milk, eggs, vanilla and butter. Beat together until well blended.
Divide evenly in paper lined cupcake tins.
Bake 25 minutes,. remove from oven and let cool 15 minutes.
For the glaze:
Mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon Lite Chocolate syrup, 1/8 cup chocolate malted powder and 1 Tablespoon 2% milk. Use the back of a tablespoon to glaze your cupcakes.
So if you make this recipe you will think of me and the beautiful island of Malta.
Very nice! I loved reading about your heritage. If you had told me Maltese, I would have thought you meant the cute little white dogs. That is what I thought it meant lol! One of my good friends have a maltese. i wonder if the dogs came from there? Any way, cute cupcakes!
Thanks Christi. No, the dogs did not come from Malta. Haha. It’s a small island off of the boot of Italy. It’s beautiful and the people are more beautiful inside and out.
I love Maltesers! I get them at a few import shops around my neck of the woods. I think I remember seeing a cookie recipe that calls for the candy but I tend to inhale them. This is a great compromise since I don’t have to give up my little dairy filled treats. So good, ugh! I’d make these mini so I could just pop em in my mouth
I don’t know why I don’t use the mini muffin pan more often. Great idea Shannon