Chocolate Malt Cookies

Cookies!

Apologies for the lack of updates lately, I'm doing a summer camp for the next two weeks so there's not a whole lot of baking going on. There's singing instead! We're doing (DON'T LAUGH!) High School Musical! It's possibly the worst-written thing on the planet, but there people there are sound so it's fun.
For some reason there has been a severe lack of cookie baking going on in this blog, and I intend to put a stop to that right now. I don't know why it is, I guess cookies were some of the first things I baked and now I want to try other stuff. Still, cookies have to be of my favourite things, there's something really satisfying about making them, I guess it's 'cause you get so many at the end ^_^
We, me and my sister, made these cookies after we devoured our pizza and realised we had no dessert! Sure, it was around eleven o'clock, but it's never too late for baking ;)

I love patterned paper :)

Recipe: Malted Drop Cookies

Ingredients:

• 125g butter, softened
• 100g sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 tablespoons chocolate malt powder
• 100g plain flour
• 50g rolled oats

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C/ 375 F. Line two baking sheets with non-stick paper.
2. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Sift the chocolate malt powder and flour together and beat into the creamed mixture along with the oats until all the ingredients are well combined.
3. Drop heaped teaspoons of the dough onto the baking sheets, spacing well apart. Bake in the oven until just golden, 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool on the sheets for a few minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
   

Now that's a flat cookie

The recipe was taken from Cookies Galore - I never seem to bake cookies from anywhere else these days. We didn't really change much except we used 2 tablespoons chocolate powder and 3 tablespoons malt powder instead of the chocolate malt powder 'cause we didn't have any. We were kinda surprised with how these came out, they were really, really flat. The recipe didn't have any raising agent in it and it makes me wonder if perhaps it was left out by mistake. Perhaps they're meant to be like this, but I'd like to try them again with a bit of baking powder. I've never actually tried adding a raising agent to a recipe before, any tips? I take it I should just find a similar recipe and see how much powder that uses.
Still, they tasted good. I'd probably add some more oats next time too, but they deliver what they promise: Chewy, chocolaty goodness.
I'm going to leave it at that for now, I'm exhausted after today. I'll try and update again this week, but I'm not making any promises ;)