Vanilla malt cake

[Stephanie Brim]

For my son's birthday I wanted to do something non-chocolate. I figured that a vanilla malt cake would be an interesting thing to do since he likes the vanilla malts I end up getting from ice cream shops, so I did a search...and came up very short.

Does no one make a vanilla malt cake? Did I just miss all the recipes?

If someone has something I can start with, or a better Google-Fu than I, it would be much appreciated. Considering I just got the pound+ of beans I ordered today, I'm itching to do something with them.

[Stephanie Brim]

My first try modified the yellow cake that Deb from Smitten Kitchen came up with. Way, way too light and airy for my purposes...which just kind of makes me wonder about myself a little. I guess I was going for something a little denser. I just used Carnation malted milk powder. THAT turned out to be a horrible mistake. On tasting it plain, I guess I didn't really catch the absolutely amazing amount of salt that they put into that stuff. Add to that the fact that I was using kosher salt for the first time and the fact that I think salted butter slipped past my brain as unsalted and you have some very salty cupcakes. Needless to say, that batch went in the bin. I'll try this one with some better malt powder, I think.

[chefpeon]

Why not make vanilla malt ice cream and layer it with vanilla butter cake with the ice cream layer being in the middle?

If you have an ice cream maker, anyway.

Edited September 11, 2010 by chefpeon (log)