Malt Ball Bars

As far as this blog is concerned, 2019 has started very slowly. I have only posted one blog so far this year. I guess I have good reasons that, my mom passed away just after Christmas, and I started a new job as well. Also, there were the holidays mixed in for good measure.

It’s been a stressful couple of months. Thank goodness for my husband, Dale. He is my rock, and he has kept me moving forward.
I don’t know what I’d done without him.

Although I haven’t blogged in a while, I have been baking. I have learned that when I’m stressed, depressed, tired, or just overwhelmed, baking brings me peace.

I like to bake in the early morning. There is a calm to the air that allows me to create things that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. All the noise of the day with phones ringing, dogs barking, and all the other distracting stuff in my life, early mornings is “Doug Time.”

I am now back to blogging, which also gives me peace. I am not a great writer, photographer, or even a great baker, but I enjoy all three of these hobbies. Does anyone read my blogs? Who knows, but at the end of the day, I feel better when I have posted something new.

Try these Malt Ball Bars; they are exceptional. They look impressive and are very easy to make.
The next time all of life’s stressful moments hit you all at once, close your eyes, take a deep breathe and bake. Enjoy!

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Malt Ball Bars

These bars should be illegal. They contain two different candies, cookies, and flooded in chocolate. I am certain that my Malt Ball Bars will become a mainstay in your recipe collection. Enjoy!

Course Cookies

Cuisine American

Keyword Malt balls, chocolate, cookies, dougbakes

Prep Time 20 minutes

Servings 12 bars

Author Doug Bakes Staff

Ingredients

• 1 cup Malt Balls plus extra to decorate
• 4 bars Milky Way Bars, full size
• 1/2 cup condensed Milk
• 12 oz chocolate cookies chopped
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips, melted
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil

Instructions

1. Line the bottom and sides of a baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Finely crush the Chocolate cookies in a food processor. 

3. Roughly crush 1 cup of Malt Balls.

4. Cut Milky Way Bars into small pieces.
5. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the butter and condensed milk, stirring until combined.
6. Add the roughly crushed Malt balls and Milky Way Bars to the crushed cookies and stir.

7. Add the melted butter and condensed milk to the cookie/candy bar mixture and stir until combined – it will be sticky.

8. Pour the mixture into the slice tin and flatten with the back of a metal spoon. Pop it in the fridge for approximately an hour until it has completely cooled.

9. Melt the chocolate chips and add 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil and sir in well.

10. Pour the melted chocolate over the cooled cookie base and then decorate with remaining Malt Balls.

    Put the pan back into the fridge to set. 

11.  Cut into pieces before it has completely set.