Chai Spiced Cookie Recipe

This Chai Spiced cookie recipe is such a tasty treat! These cookies do not have tea in them but have all of the same warm and delicious flavors as Chai tea.

My daughters love the non-caffeinated version of chai tea at my house. We call it “tiger tea” because we use the Celestial tea brand’s Bengal tea blend that has roasted chicory instead of the black tea. My girls beg me to make it all of the time. They love it with sugar and a little vanilla creamer in it and I think it tastes like a cookie in a drink. So, I decided to make a cookie that tasted like chai tea and thus this recipe was born.

I have been so busy with life that this recipe has been sitting in my drafts for a few months now but it’s time for you all to have this yummy little cookie recipe.

The main spices in chai tea are cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom and black pepper. This blend can vary depending on the brand of chai. To make these cookies easy to make, without having to buy a bunch of different spices. I compared spice blends and found that pumpkin pie spice actually has almost all of the same ingredients as chai tea.

To make sure it tastes authentic, I have added cardamom, more cinnamon and a pinch of cloves to these cookies to balance out the blend and give you that tasty chai tea flavor.

These cookies have a simple spiced vanilla glaze that you dip your cookies into,. so they are frosted but just enough to give them a little coat of extra sweetness.

What you need to make these Chai Spiced Cookie Recipe; (Printable recipe card is below)

Makes 36 cookies

• 1 cup salted butter – room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cardamom
• pinch of cloves
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 3/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chai Spiced Glaze:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• dash cardamom
• splash vanilla

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 F.
2. In a mixing bowl, add butter and both sugars and blend well.
3. Add in the eggs and vanilla then blend well again.
4. Add the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, pumpkin pie spice, salt, baking soda and flour and blend until a cookie dough forms.
5. Roll into roughly 1 1/2 inch balls to make ~36 cookies, then place cookie dough balls on a lined for greased cookie sheet and bake for ~8 minutes or until cookies are baked to your liking.
6. Allow cookies to cool while you make the glaze.
7. In a bowl, add the powdered sugar, salt, melted butter, milk, pumpkin pie spice, cardamom and vanilla together and blend until the glaze is smooth.
8. Dip the cookies tops in the glaze or spoon on glaze to each cookie.
9. Let the glaze set then serve and enjoy.

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Chai Spice Cookie Recipe

These chai spice cookies have all of warm and delicious flavors of chai tea in a soft and chewy cookie.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Course: Cookies, Dessert

Cuisine: American, Indian

Keyword: Cookies, Dessert, Easy Recipes, Spice Blend, tea, treat

Servings: 36 cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter – room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cardamom
• pinch of cloves
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 3/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Chai Spiced Glaze:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• dash cardamom
• splash vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 375 F.
• In a mixing bowl, add butter and both sugars and blend well.
• Add in the eggs and vanilla then blend well again.
• Add the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, pumpkin pie spice, salt, baking soda and flour and blend until a cookie dough forms.
• Roll into roughly 1 1/2 inch balls to make ~36 cookies, then place cookie dough balls on a lined for greased cookie sheet and bake for ~8 minutes or until cookies are baked to your liking.
• Allow cookies to cool while you make the glaze.
• In a bowl, add the powdered sugar, salt, melted butter, milk, pumpkin pie spice, cardamom and vanilla together and blend until the glaze is smooth.
• Dip the cookies tops in the glaze or spoon on glaze to each cookie.
• Let the glaze set then serve and enjoy.