Enjoy the comfort of days past with these delicious malted peanut butter oatmeal cookies. The nutty goodness of peanut butter and oatmeal are only made more delicious with malted milk.
If you love the toasty, buttery flavor of a creamy malt or malted milk, just imagine that added flavor in a cookie…
You’re imagining it right? And now you want to taste it too.
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Yes you do cause it tastes amazing!
So hurry and run to the store for a can of old-fashion of powdered malted milk. You can usually find it in the grocery store next to the chocolate milk powder. Then make sure to keep it in your pantry.
Enjoy these malty, nutty, slightly crunchy but with a chewy center, peanut butter oatmeal cookie. YUM!
Then make sure to keep a can of powdered malt in your pantry so you can make these malted peanut butter oatmeal cookies whenever you want.
And after you use it in these amazing cookies, you can start adding it to all kinds of goodies. Throw about 1/4 cup in your pancake or waffle batter next time, I promise you’ll thank me for it.
Cookie heaven is these Malted Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies dipped in a cold glass of milk. Yum!
And this is the look of a very happy little girl who got to eat cookies for breakfast because mommy had to take pictures in the good light.
Haha! These cookies are definitely toddler approved 🙂
Until next time 🙂
Malted Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These Malted Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are amazing! They are made with whole wheat flour, peanut butter, oats, and malted milk to make them really special. The result is a cookies that is malty, nutty, slightly crunchy but with a chewy center full of peanut buttery goodness.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/3 cup malted milk powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a stand mixer, cream together butter, peanut butter, and brown sugar until lightened in color. Scrape sides well.
- Add in egg and vanilla extract and combine well.
- Scrape sides well and add in flour, oats, malted milk, baking soda, and salt. Mix well, but do not beat.
- Drop 1 Tbsp balls of cookie dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheet, spaced about 2 inches apart.
- Cook for 8-10 minutes. Allow to cool for a couple minutes on baking sheet before moving cookies to cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Enjoy!
Awww, what a beautiful picture of your cookie helper! (Seriously, if you don’t do photography portraits, you should!) And these cookies look fantastic, nice crinkles!
You are so sweet Cristina! I love taking pictures of my helpers when I am doing photo shoots. And the cookies are good too 🙂
I love malted milk and candy too! My kids not so much, but that just leaves more for me 🙂 I’ll have to definitely try this recipe.
I wish my kids didn’t cause they devoured these cookies! I hope you try them, they are delicious.
These sound SO good! I have been craving oatmeal cookies all the time lately. I made a batch last week but now I want to try yours! My grandma used to make milk shakes with malted milk powder and they were so good. It would be so yummy in cookie form!
Oatmeal cookie cravings sound good to me. You would have been happy at our house last week cause I made these 3 times! I hope you enjoy them.
Yes, yes, and yes!! Oh my yum! I love peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies, and malt, so this is a match made in heaven, I am sure! Thanks for linking up with us at The Wednesday Showcase!
Ha ha! They really are that delicious too 🙂