Instantly Elevate Your Next Cake With This Simple Addition - Tasting Table

When you're baking, you typically need flour, sugar, eggs, and ... malted milk powder? According to The Kitchn, this blend of dried milk, wheat flour, and malted barley brings a nutty, caramelized flavor to desserts as diverse as cookies, brownies, and hot cocoa. We couldn't agree more — we love Sunday in Brooklyn's recipe for malted pancakes. And Serious Eats points out that the salt and baking powder typically included in the ingredient bring a welcome savoriness and depth of flavor to butterscotch pudding, ice cream, and even bread dough.

In Stella Parks' recipe for fudgy, chocolate glaze-topped Texas sheet cake from Serious Eats, she includes a quarter cup of malted milk powder, which she says boosts the flavor of the cocoa and adds a toffee-like complexity to the cake. So the next time you're making a homemade dessert of, well, pretty much any type, it seems safe to say that a few spoons of malted milk powder will only improve your sweet treat.

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