Jonathan ordered a vanilla malt with his green chili burrito at
Southwest Diner (a new retro-style diner in St. Louis). When our sever dropped the cool vanilla malt in front of him along with the metal canister dripping from condensation, Jonathan saw vanilla ice cream mixed with milk and malt powder - the drink he'd been craving for weeks. I saw an opportunity to steal half of his drink (malts are meant to be shared, right?) and my next cupcake idea.
I made my vanilla malt cupcakes by doctoring my
Ultimate Vanilla Cupcake recipe to include malt powder. It's the same cupcake you know and love, but a bit more dense (I used all butter instead of butter and oil) and loaded with malt powder for that soda shop taste. I topped them with fresh whipped cream and
homemade maraschino cherries.
Head over to Paula Deen's website to get the full vanilla malt cupcake recipe!
I clicked over from my reader today because my fiance lurves vanilla malts and I love cupcakes. BUT, after reading your blog for a couple months now, I JUST realized you live in STL! We live in Chicago now but St. Louis is our home area, the city to which we will move in a couple of years, AND our wedding location! It's always good for us to see creative and interesting people living in our beloved city. It makes us excited to move back! Also, thank you, thank you for featuring Southwest Diner. I hadn't heard of it and can't wait to give it a try when we're next back in town!
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Kat
Glad to meet a fellow STL supporter! If you ever want to meet up sometime when you are in town, let me know. :)
DeleteClicked on Paula Deens site to get the recipe for vanilla malt cupcakes- followed it EXACTLY and watched them collapse into cupcake shaped flat cookies. Went back over the recipe to make sure I followed it exactly and realized that you don't have ANY eggs in the recipe! Thanks for the waste of my ingredients and the waste of my time and energy. Yes, I should have known better that the darn thing wouldn't work without eggs, but the whole reason I used someone else's recipe was because I didn't feel like having to concentrate on experimenting today. Can't imagine how they worked for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry! I made a mistake and inadvertently left off the eggs and the corresponding directions. I've sent in my changes and hopefully they'll be up soon. In the meantime, the recipe does require two large eggs, and they should be mixed in until just combined right after you add the butter and vanilla and mix until light and fluffy. Thanks for letting me know, and I'm sorry again that my recipe had an error.
DeleteI love vanilla malt cupcakes and have never made them at home. It will soon change! They look beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSince I absolutely love Chocolate malts I will definitely try this recipe and also make my own chocolate malt cupcakes. I will let you know how those turn out
ReplyDeleteI love cupcakes. Your Vanilla Malt Cupcake looks yummy. Nice recipe and pictures also.
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ReplyDeleteI am not a novice baker but I tried the recipe and the cupcakes came out a lot darker looking than the picture (even checked the oven to make sure it wasn't overbaking) and the texture wasn't very good - it felt very 'gummy'. I wasn't able to get the batter to be 'light and fluffy' after adding the butter and vanilla to the dry ingredients (instead I ended up with a coarse crumbly mixture). I also don't believe I overmixed the batter - I used a hand whisk to gently incorporate the eggs and milk till just combined. What am I doing wrong?
ReplyDeleteI followed the directions exactly...and the batter tasted very malty....after baking however, the malt flavor disappeared completely. And the cakes were dark and some even burned on the bottom...sorry to say but this is one recipe I won't be making again.
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