Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops

The Tuesdays with Dorie group is on a cookie kick lately...and this week's recipe was chosen by Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart.

I had been promising my college English classes that I would bring them a treat, so I made these cookies for them.

"Did you make these yourself," one girl asked.

"Of course," I replied.

"Wow. I've never had a teacher actually make something for a class."

I've been trying to keep them on their toes. Heehee.

Actually, though, I've only revealed little bits about myself since school started a few weeks ago. I wore long pants the first day and a skirt the second day, revealing the white daisy tattoo on my ankle. I got a lot of "you have a tattoo?" that day. When we were doing descriptive exercises, I said something about seeing Rob Zombie perform live.

"You've been to a Rob Zombie concert?" one kid asked.

"I've been to two." I said. They looked confused. "Oh, I forgot to tell you," I explained. "I'm hardcore."

Later that period, I was talking about food descriptions and I told them to avoid words like delicious and tasty, because they are too subjective. What's delicious to me might not be delicious to them.

"For example, I think caviar and raw oysters are really delicious." I said.

"Ewww!"

"Wait," one boy interrupted, "You eat caviar and raw oysters?"

"Sure. In fact, I had caviar and champagne for dinner just last night."

His response: "Who are you?"

"We've already been over this," I replied. "Hard. core."

Anyway...

These cookies are hardcore chocolatey, but since I used regular malted milk powder (not chocolate-flavored), they weren't too chocolatey. And the Whopper bits sort of melt and caramelize into the chewy cookie. Really yum.