Cookies Dessert
Posted on 19 January, 2014
Its been sometime since I last made something with Milo (Malted chocolate drink). Since Chinese New Year is just around the corner, I wanted to bake some melt in the mouth cookies. Last week, my mum, aunts, and I had a little pineapple tarts making party. The tarts turned out really well and they literally melt in the mouth. I’m salivating just thinking about it!! Excuse me while I run to the kitchen to pop a couple in my mouth…
Back. 😀 After a long (and busy) week at work, I needed to de-stress, so I looked through my ‘baking shelf’ and found that I have all the ingredients I needed to make German Cookies. I was also thinking to myself… wouldn’t it be really neat if I have bite size Milo cookies that melts in my mouth?! Then came this recipe, which I’m extremely please to share with all of you! 🙂 Hope you’ll like it as much as I did!
Ps. If you do not live in Asia or Aussie, I’m sure you can get Milo from Asian supermarket or substitute with malt powder.
Preheat oven to 170C
Cream butter with mixer for about a min.
Sift icing sugar and Milo powder together into butter.
Use a spoon to get as much as the clumps through the sieve as possible.
Discard the larger grains of Milo.
Cream butter & icing mixture until light and fluffy.
Sift cake flour & potato starch together.
With mixer on low, slowly add in the flour mixture.
The dough should be soft & sticky, but you will be able to handle it.
You may want to chill your dough to make it more pliable if you wish.
Roll the dough into 2-3 cm balls.
Place them on baking sheet about an inch apart.
Dip a fork in water (to prevent sticking), press it down on the cookie dough to make imprints and flatten dough.
The cookie doesn’t really spread when baking.
Bake for 15 mins.
Cool for 5 mins before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
Serve with a cup of milk, ice-Milo, or hot Milo.
Melt-in-mouth Milo German Cookies
Delishar
Makes about 60 cookies
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Ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter softened
- 125 g potato starch
- 55 g cake flour
- 40 g Milo powder or Ovaltine/malt powder
- 30 g icing sugar
- Pinch of fine salt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 170C
Cream butter with mixer for about a min.
Sift icing sugar, salt, and Milo powder together into butter.
Use a spoon to get as much as the clumps through the sieve as possible.
Discard the larger grains of Milo.
Cream butter & icing mixture until light and fluffy.
Sift cake flour & potato starch together.
With mixer on low, slowly add in the flour mixture.
The dough should be soft & sticky, but you will be able to handle it.
You may want to chill your dough to make it more pliable if you wish.
Roll the dough into 2-3 cm balls.
Place them on baking sheet about an inch apart.
Dip a fork in water (to prevent sticking), press it down on the cookie dough to make imprints and flatten dough.
The cookie doesn't really spread when baking.
Bake for 15 mins.
Cool for 5 mins before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
For a stronger Milo taste, add more Milo powder. I highly suggest to lessen the amount of flour in proportion to the additional Milo powder added if it's quite substantial. Texture of final product changes when the dough is too dry (ie cookie looses the melt in mouth effect and just becomes bite size crumble cookies). If you find the dough too soft to handle, the butter may have softened too much/melted in the sweltering tropical heat. Try chilling the dough for an hour before rolling it.
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34 Comments
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MonuTeena RecipesPassion
19 January, 2014 at 6:18 am
Hi my dear ; hope you are doing great; cookies are looking just great and mouth watering;
you have been nominated by me for "Liebster Award"
See the Link : Liebster Award forwarded by Recipes Passion 🙂
Love Monu Teena
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Fion@轩宏妈
16 January, 2015 at 8:25 am
I never try using Milo in my any bakes yet,this certainly would be very popular,coz my sons loveeee Milo..
Thanks for sharing with Best Recipes
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Anonymous
17 January, 2015 at 4:21 pm
Hi, can I replace potato starch with wheat starch or corn flour/starch? Thanks!
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delishar
18 January, 2015 at 3:05 am
Hi hi! I wouldn't recommend substitution as it may alter the texture of the end product. 🙂
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Anna
27 December, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Hi, I love this simple recipe. Can I use my twin beaters ( I am using a Kenwood Chefette) for step 8 on low speed ?
I have never use my twin beaters on flour mixture. I always end up using my spatula or balloon whisk. I always thought twin beaters are for cream/beating wet ingredients only like butter, eggs, sugar.
Thanks!
Anna
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Sharon Lam
28 December, 2015 at 2:39 am
Hi Anna, I used my twin beaters for this recipe and it works out fine. Just expect a little flour cloud. 🙂 nothing too major though.
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Anna
28 December, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Thanks ! I will try your recipe soon! Anna
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Sharon Lam
30 December, 2015 at 2:32 am
Most welcome, Anna!
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Laura
13 January, 2016 at 8:34 am
Hi Sharon
Can I omit this milo in the recipe totally . Thanks for your generous sharing.
Laura
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Sharon Lam
13 January, 2016 at 9:27 am
Yes, you can replace it with flour or try this chocolate version.
http://delishar.com/2014/01/melt-in-mouth-chocolate-german-cookies.htmlReply
Laura
13 January, 2016 at 11:15 am
Hi Sharon
Thanks for your quick reply . Will try your recommended version ???
Regards
Laura
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Happy baking
13 January, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Hi, may I know what is cake flour? Do u mean self-raising flour? Tku
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Sharon Lam
13 January, 2016 at 8:22 pm
Cake flour is a finely milled, very low protein flour. Cakes using cake flour rises more and has a fluffy, tender texture. Cake flour is not self-raising flour and does not contain baking agent unlike self-raising flour.
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Elaine Q
22 May, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Hi, Sharon, Thank you for sharing this melt in the mouth cookies, ,I have been searching for a good melt in mouth cookies which my hubby is craving for. Will like make it for him. Thank you for this so please to follow receive.😍
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2 June, 2016 at 8:57 am
[…] Recipe adapted and modified from Delishar […]
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Gina
21 July, 2016 at 7:36 pm
Hi Sharon can I use the Cadbury drinking chocolate powder instead of Milo?
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Sharon Lam
22 July, 2016 at 3:02 am
Hi Gina, I don’t see why not. Just need to know how sweet the chocolate mix is and adjust the sugar. 🙂
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Gini
12 December, 2016 at 11:39 am
hi I can’t find potato starch. only tapioca starch and sweet potato flour… any substitutes?
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Sharon Lam
12 December, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Hi potato starch is also known as potato flour. However, some readers have used corn flour with success.
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Mye
12 December, 2016 at 3:59 pm
Any substitution for potato flour?
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Sharon Lam
12 December, 2016 at 6:02 pm
Some readers have used corn flour with success.
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Diana
12 December, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Hi Sharon, would you recommend Horlicks instead of milo?
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Sharon Lam
12 December, 2016 at 9:11 pm
Hi Diana, yes. Horlicks can be used in place of Milo. 🙂
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Gini
14 December, 2016 at 1:50 pm
Hi Sharon I tried making them today and they were superb.. Many thanks for your recipe:)
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Sharon Lam
14 December, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Hi Gini! Thank you so much for the feedback! I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. So glad you liked the cookies. 😀
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Swee
7 January, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Hi Glad to come across this Milo cookies, can I ask if there is a strong aroma of Milo smell after baking ? If not how much more Milo should I add?
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Sharon Lam
8 January, 2017 at 8:48 am
Hi Swee, hmmm strong can be subjective. If you like it stronger, you can add another 10g Milo powder. But do take away 8-10g of cake flour from the mix when you do so.
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Julia Foo
14 January, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Hi Sharon,
Saw some recipe does not use floor, just only potato starch ….so, if without putting cake flour, is it still ok? Thanks!
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Sharon Lam
17 January, 2017 at 7:59 am
Hi Julia, I must have missed your message! I’ve not tried without cake flour before. So I can’t advise. You can use the other tested recipes without cake flour if you prefer not to have any wheat flour in your batter.
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Eliza
18 January, 2017 at 9:28 am
tried the recipe but sadly the nice round balls spread out into one big flat rectangle in the oven 🙁 any idea why? the only step i didnt do was to chill the dough as it was still manageable 🙁
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Sharon Lam
18 January, 2017 at 8:46 pm
Hi Eliza, sorry it didn’t work out for you. Hmmm, did you follow the ingredients to the T? Any changes? There could be multiple reasons why the cookie spread, which it shouldn’t have. Butter too soft in our hot weather, oven too hot causing butter to melt before the flour can set. Pressing the cookies down too flat before baking. Measuring ingredients wrongly. Many had tried this recipe and it worked well for them, the only change made by them is usually adding more Milo powder to intensify the taste. I hope you this helps a little in your troubleshooting.
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Wendy Wong
7 August, 2017 at 4:11 pm
Hi Sharon!
Just tried baking the milo cookies and it’s so nice! crispy and sweetness is also just right. Thanks for sharing this recipe 🙂
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Sharon Lam
7 August, 2017 at 9:43 pm
Hi Wendy~! So glad you liked it. 🙂 Thank you for the feedback, dear!
