Where I live these delightful confections of malted milk balls are called Maltesers but perhaps in your part of the world you would know them as Whoppers? However, wherever you live they still remain the same temptations of light and crunchy, in a sphere-shaped with malted centres and dressed in a layer of creamy chocolate - *slurp*. Now if you’ve not tried these little beauties you really are missing out, but if you are like my Mr R. (hubby) you’re already totally hooked on them!
These bars are simplicity itself to make by melting and mixing a few ingredients; baking the chocolate base and spreading over the malted topping with a sprinkling of chopped Maltesers. All that remains to do is cut into bars and sit back and enjoy!
*My apologies for my absent lately once again in the blogosphere! I evidently spoke too soon when I mentioned my back felt on the mends because I've spent since my last post here resting up in bed. Oh well on the upside of things, it has given me chance to bookmark bakes that took my fancy in magazines and books. I’m looking forward to getting back into the swing of things once again*.
Malteser Bars or Whopper Bars
Ingredients
Chocolate Base:
175g (6 oz) unsalted butter, cut into cubes
175g (6 oz) good quality milk chocolate, broken up into squares
350g (12 oz) granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
225g (8 oz) plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
Malted Milk Topping:
100g (4 oz) malted milk powder, (Horlicks)
3 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
40g (1½ oz) butter
150g (5 oz) icing sugar
150g (5 oz) maltesers /whoppers, roughly chopped
You will need a metal baking tin measuring 33cm by 23cm (13 inch by 9 inch) lined with foil (over lapping at each long side with foil) grease foil.
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
For the chocolate base: In a small bowl combine the flour, salt and baking powder set aside for later.
In a large saucepan melt the butter and chocolate stirring frequently. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar and vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs until blended in and then lastly the flour mixture until it’s fully combined. Spread the mixture over the prepared baking tin levering the top with a spatula. Place into the preheated oven and bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin on a wire rack.
For the malted milk topping: In a small bowl stir together the malted milk powder, milk and vanilla extract until combined into a smooth mixture. In another bowl, add the butter and icing sugar and beat together until blended, add to the malted mixture and beat together.
When the chocolate base is nearly cold spread all the malted topping over with a spatula until fully covered and then top with the chopped maltesers. When the topping is firm, transfer with the foil to a chopping board. Cut into bars to the size you wish each bar to be.
Lastly, sit back and relax arming yourself with one of these gorgeous bars and relish in its wonderful delights......
175g (6 oz) unsalted butter, cut into cubes
175g (6 oz) good quality milk chocolate, broken up into squares
350g (12 oz) granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
225g (8 oz) plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
Malted Milk Topping:
100g (4 oz) malted milk powder, (Horlicks)
3 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
40g (1½ oz) butter
150g (5 oz) icing sugar
150g (5 oz) maltesers /whoppers, roughly chopped
You will need a metal baking tin measuring 33cm by 23cm (13 inch by 9 inch) lined with foil (over lapping at each long side with foil) grease foil.
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
For the chocolate base: In a small bowl combine the flour, salt and baking powder set aside for later.
In a large saucepan melt the butter and chocolate stirring frequently. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar and vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs until blended in and then lastly the flour mixture until it’s fully combined. Spread the mixture over the prepared baking tin levering the top with a spatula. Place into the preheated oven and bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin on a wire rack.
For the malted milk topping: In a small bowl stir together the malted milk powder, milk and vanilla extract until combined into a smooth mixture. In another bowl, add the butter and icing sugar and beat together until blended, add to the malted mixture and beat together.
When the chocolate base is nearly cold spread all the malted topping over with a spatula until fully covered and then top with the chopped maltesers. When the topping is firm, transfer with the foil to a chopping board. Cut into bars to the size you wish each bar to be.
Lastly, sit back and relax arming yourself with one of these gorgeous bars and relish in its wonderful delights......
61 comments:
Oh my god!! They are sooo good!! Can I have one please ?? :)
I love Maltesers! That beautiful treat look so good!
Cheers,
Rosa
Maltesers or Whoppers it is still a gorgeous cake what ever the name! Love the spongy texture and yummy balls on top of the cake. :-)
Rose, I'm glad you're feeling better!
The Malteser bars look fabulous.
Wowwww gorgeous!fabulous!!!
Malteasers are my favourite chocolate so I will definately have to give this a go. :)
OMG how delicious!
What a fun cake!
Glad you're feeling better. And these looks yummy! Love Whoppers :)
Oh how I love whoppers, this looks fantastic. I hope your up and around soon with out any pain!
Umm! Can you express mail a package to NYC! I'm going to try this recipe - Myers of Keswick here sells Maltesers and Horlicks (I hear that Maltesers taste better than Whoppers). Yum!
OMG they looks so good and yummy. Very tempting..Yummmm
I luv chocolate cakes... looks great :)
They look super yummy Rose! I must try these out some time! Fab!
Glad you're feeling better :)
Katie xox
Didn't know what to do first - leave a comment or print the recipe!
Rosie good to see you back.
Ilove matleese and like Mr.R i am aslo addicted to them and this cake looks so so yummy delicous with them.
I say Maltesers ;o) Those look amazing and I know my boys would love those!!!
Rosie, so glad to see you back!
Maria
x
They look wonderful Rosie, I just love. maltesers
We call them Whoppers, but I think Maltesers is a better name! ;P
You can't beat Maltesers - these look divine
I love, love, love Maltesers but have not idea what malted milk is.
Rosie so good to see you back :) I hope your back is a lot better. No wonder you have been out of the loup. Look after yourself girl. Those malteser bars look wonderful x
WOW!! Rosie these look absolutely amazing, wonderful and so cute!!! Love them!! xGloria
Delicious Rosie! We call them Maltesers in Oz.
The last time I tried a whopper I was very young and didn't like it but your bars look wonderful. I think I need to give them (& whoppers) another try.
Are the ovaltine and carnation brands of malted milk powder? I've looked at them a time or two but haven't been certain they're what I need.
~ingrid
Btw, I hope your back feels better soon.
These look delicious, I'll take one please! Glad you're back, hope that you're feeling up to par again :)
I adore Maltesers!! OMG, this is such a smart idea!
I'm so going to make this soon. Mebbe for my father in law's bday!
Wow I think I just call this delicious!
Yummy!!!!!
I love that whoppers sounds... I can imagine the crunch when you sink i your teeth into this dessert. Delicious!
These look so delicious! I love anything that involves malt balls, they're one of my favorite candies.
something new for me..looks yumm..
although i'm not a fan of the candy itself, these bars look so moist, i couldn't resist them i'm sure. i greatly prefer the name malteser to whopper--it's much more fun!
I know that I would never be able to resist one of these lovely treats - how delicious!
I love it! Sounds very very delicious.
Those look delicious! I hope you feel better!
Your blog it's really yumi yumi!!!
Felicidades, está padrísimo y todas las recetas deliciosas!
Those look delicious Rosie! Sorry to hear that your back gave you trouble again! Hope it stays well this time!
holy cow, I have to make this!!!!
your blog is great
Looks delicious and less fattening too?
Funny - I thought Whoppers came with cheese, relish and gherkins.....
Good to see you back!
Goodness, this looks amazing! I love whoppers! Love your blog. :-)
I am glad that you feel fine now, Rosie in my country we don't have those malteser but they look so delicious and good ... yum the cake looks deliicous too, we don't have malted milk anylonger in my country but I have malt extrac would that be good for this recipe-(I hate to have a dictator and not a Queen in my country)
My husband loves malted milk, so I should make him a batch of these!
Yum these look fab. When I was younger my friends and I used to always try and pick maltesers up with straws or chopsticks for party games. Seeing these brought back good memories.
Hope your back is feeling better
Thanks so much for calling by and for all your kind words my ‘dear’ friends old and new :0)
I am still taking things slowly with my back and enjoying getting back into my kitchen at last.
Faery, Ingrid and Ivy, I have found a few links that can explain better than i about Malted milk – I do hope this helps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malted_milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horlicks
Best wishes Rosie x
You know me and malt balls! You had me at the title!
Where do you dream up these incredible sweets. I could sure use your help in the decorating department - it seems I'm a dismal failure.
Yummy cake...my hubby's addicted to Malteasers too :-)
These look amazing!! I'm never going to be able to lose weight :( but who cares when there are things like this to eat!
Hope you're feeling better soon and your back is on the mend.
We call them Whoppers here or malted milk balls. I haven't had these in forever, but they are so yummy. And your cake looks absolutely scrumptious!
I have an award for you over at my site.
My goodness.. these look incredible. Malt balls are one of our favorites here. I know they would be thoroughly enjoyed!
This looks so delicious!! My daughter absolutely loves malt balls. I'm definitely going to have to try this recipe for her.
We love Maltezers and these look like a winner.
Ooh Rosie, you have pulled it out of the bag again and produced a delicious looking and sounding dessert! Will look forward to making this soon!
Am sorry to hear your back is giving you pain again, hope it heals fully and very soon xx
Hope the back's feeling better Rosie. They're known as Maltesers down under and that cake looks one of the best ways to use them.
BTW do you remember the Maltesers advert where the girls are driving round a roundabout to get the maltesers out of the bag? Well, it's just made an appearence on Oz tv!Talk about recycling!
Glad to hear you are back on the mend again Rosie. I always look forward to your tempting posts:D
Thanks ladies for your kind comments. Sounds like there are quite a few fans of malt balls, my hubby is not alone *giggle*...
T.G. A little of what you fancy does you good or so they say ;0)
Giz - your skills are A1 in the decorating department :0)
Jilly, I do remember that advert yes....
Bawhahahaha - love the bit when you wrote *Talk about recycling!*
Donna-FFW a warm welcome to my little blog and lovely to *see* you here :0)
Anne and Aka Mom my hubby loved these and I'm sure they will be a treat in your households too
Jerri I'll be over and thank you SO much for thinking of me sweetie :0)
Also thanks for all the well wishes re:back of mine my 'dear' friends...
Best wishes Rosie xoxo
sooo yummy... I'm looking forward to next yummy post..
I love Whoppers and these look SO good! Very cute pictures too!
Thanks B.H. and Cookies and cups - it's really lovely to *see* you here and I hope you will call back soon :0)
Best wishes Rosie x
Your cake designs are so lovely
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