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chai cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
½ cup margarine or softened salted butter (I use vegan margarine)
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup granulated/white sugar
½ cup powdered sugar
1 ½ teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon allspice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
Pinch of black pepper or to taste
2 sachets of chai (tea)
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt (table salt or salt with smaller crystals are best)
Cinnamon sugar (for rolling)
Nutmeg (for sprinkling)
Directions:
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F
2. line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper
3. mix butter, vegetable oil granulated sugar and powdered sugar until incorporated
4. add ginger, cinnamon, allspice nutmeg, cardamom, cloves and pepper, stir until all is incorporated
5. add vanilla, baking soda, salt and egg, stir
6. gradually mix in flour
7. cover mixture and refrigerate for 1 hour or freeze for 15 mins
8. meanwhile, in a normal serving bowl, create cinnamon sugar (1/4 cup granulated sugar to 1tbsp cinnamon is the typical cinnamon sugar ratio for most bakers)
9. scoop out cookies using table spoon (the baking measuring spoon not the regular spoon) into the cinnamon sugar mixture,
10. cover dough balls in cinnamon sugar then transfer to cookie sheets
11. Bake cookies for approximately 10 mins or until toothpick comes away clear (bottoms of cookies do not need to be brown in any way. be vigilant if in for longer than 10 mins, they burn quickly)
12. Cool cookies on cooling rack then lightly sprinkle tops of cookies with nutmeg
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
24 or 2 dozen
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
1hr 45 mins
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
this was an adapted version of a recipe called taylor swift's chai sugar cookies, i adapted it a little and removed the icing as i found it unneccesary, first attempted in late 2023

 

 

 

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