These Malted Milk sandwich Biscuits are just the most wonderful biscuity mouthfuls. My children love them as much as I do too. It's something about the maltiness combined with the chocolate filling that makes me feel like I'm giving them something healthy as well as delicious.
Malted Milk Sandwich Biscuits
These biscuits are malty sweet with a little crunch.I have used chocolate icing but you could use vanilla or whatever you fancy.
This recipe is from Bake it Better Biscuits by Annie Rigg, part of the Great British Bake off Series.
My children love them and I love that I can get the children involved in helping me too. The patterns on top are super cute and look like buttons. I feel like a creative genius.
Malted Milk flavouring is in both the biscuits (think maltesers) and the chocolate icing. Malted Milk is a drink usually made with hot milk and a powder made from malt extract.
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Ingredients
- 150 grams (5.3 oz) unsalted butter room temp
- 100 grams(3.5 oz) caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 medium egg
- 1 medium egg yolk
- 250 grams (8.8 oz) plain flour
- 75 grams (2.65 oz) malted milk powder like Ovaltine
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
For the icing
- 100 grams (3.5 oz) milk chocolate
- 100 grams (3.5 oz) unsalted butter room temp
- 75 grams (2.65 oz) icing sugar
- 6 tbsp malted milk powder
Method
- The dough is simply made by creaming together the butter and sugar with an electric mix until it thickens and pales in colour.
- Add the eggs and mix again.
- Mix again for a couple of minutes.
- Tip in the dry ingredients
- Mix until it forms a soft dough and cover with cling film and chill for at least an hour in the fridge.
- roll out to about 3mm thickness on a floured work surface with a floured rolling pin
- cut out your biscuits using a 5 cm cutter and place on a lined flat baking tray. I use the bottom of a piping nozzle and the top to decorate them in a button fashion.
- Bake for about 12 minutes until golden brown.
- Place carefully on a cooling rack.
Chocolate Malted Icing
- Melt the chocolate in short 20 second bursts in the microwave and mix the icing ingredients together. Sift in the icing sugar to avoid lumps or make in a food processor.
- Chill in the fridge for an hour.
- Sandwich the biscuits together with the malted chocolate icing. I like to pipe it in to get a level fill but just a wide bladed flat knife will do.
How To Store Malted Milk Biscuits
They keep very well in an air tight container for several days. Although they rarely last that long such is their moreish quality.
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Ingredients
For the Biscuits
- 150 grams unsalted butter room temp
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 medium egg
- 1 medium egg yolk
- 250 grams plain flour
- 75 grams malted milk powder like Ovaltine
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
For the icing
- 100 grams milk chocolate
- 100 grams unsalted butter room temp
- 75 grams icing sugar
- 6 tbsp malted milk powder
Instructions
- The dough is simply made by creaming together the butter and sugar with an electric mix until it thickens and pales in colour.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl a couple of times and then beat in the vanilla extract and egg scraping down the sides intermittently.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and milk powder into the batter and mix until smooth and well combined. Be careful not to over mix as biscuits tend to be tough when overworked.
- Gather into a disc, wrap in clingfilm and chill for at least an hour.
- Preheat oven to 170 C/ 325F/Gas Mark 3 and line two baking trays with baking paper or I use bakoglide. Lightly dust the surface and rolling pin with flour and roll the dough out to the thickness of 3mm. I cut the dough in half and put one half back in the fridge. My dough kept getting too soft so in actual fact I popped it in the freezer for five mins at one point.
- I used a 5 cm round cutter and a large and small piping nozzle to cut out and decorate the little beauties.
- Arrange the biscuits with gaps in between and bake in batches in the middle of the oven for 11 minutes until crisp on the outer edges and golden brown.
- Leave to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes before gently transferring to a wire rack.
- Melt the chocolate in short 20 second bursts in the microwave and mix the icing ingredients together. Sift in the icing sugar to avoid lumps or make in a food processor. Mix well.
- Chill in the fridge for an hour.
- Sandwich the biscuits together with the malted chocolate icing. I like to pipe it in to get a level fill but just a wide bladed flat knife will do.
Notes
Nutrition
All nutritional information is approximate and intended only as a guide.
Do let me know how you get on making the malted milk biscuits in the comments below. I love a good old hairy chinwag.
Cat Sherrin says
Loved reading your little story behind these biscuits, it really made me smile! These biscuits look super tasty, I'm off to buy some Ovaltine! x
applytofaceblog says
Thankyou.I love the malty milk drink thing.Childhood nostalgia I think.Cant get enough of biscuits either at the mo.Laying fat down for winter I suppose ???
Rebecca Beesley (The Beesley Buzz) says
I have just two words to say about these: utter perfection! #gbboblogers2017
applytofaceblog says
Thankyou!
joskitchenlarder says
I'm really pleased the balance has been restored lol and your biscuits are as cute as buttons 😉 and look so delicious xx
applytofaceblog says
Thanks,they were a perfect size too.I could ram 2 in at a time ???xx
Tamara Parmar says
Love reading about your disorganised life... Biscuits look marvellous ???
applytofaceblog says
Thanks beautiful bird xxx
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain says
Haha love the questionnaire and boiling the jumper to get the right size 🙂 You always have me laughing out loud - literally 😀 Great bake too, I just love the cute button decoration,
Angela x
applytofaceblog says
Thanks Angela.Remember that handy household tip.I am thinking about branching out into a housekeeping blog section ?????xx
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain says
You're so funny Jenny, I just love your humour 🙂
Thankyou too for joining in again with #BakingCrumbs 🙂
Angela x
applytofaceblog says
Thanks so much.Loving joining in.Fantastic linky xxxx
jennypaulin says
oh dear your words did make me smile - your poor, deprived children, fancy making them wear such ill fitting clothes and shoes !!! BUT you made these cute as a button biscuits, so surely that made everything better? It would go some way for me at least!
thank you for linking up to #GBBOBloggers2017 x
applytofaceblog says
Thankyou.Tis true the biscuits made up for my rubbishness......again.My children are going to be massive ????
RaisieBay says
The button biscuits are adorable, well done. You need to send your kids to my kid's school, they are measured in the last week of term and the sizes sent to the school uniform shop for us to pick up the week before they go back to school. So now I can blame the oversized jumpers and ill fitting p.e. kits on the school, it IS their fault! The shoes however, are all down to me.
Good luck with keeping the balance and next weeks bread challenge.
#GBBOBloggers
applytofaceblog says
Oh my that's bloody brilliant.Im moving to your school then??
cakesnbakes2014 says
These look amazing, certainly would pass the 'all identical' criteria.
applytofaceblog says
Thankyou ?
HELEN says
these look perfect Jen. So perfect that everything else is surely forgotten. There is nothing more appeasing to a pissed off family than shoving some freshly baked biscuits in their faces. It works a treat here 🙂
applytofaceblog says
Wise words Helen.I am quite partial to ramming them in too.???