Chai cookies – a recipe for crispy and chewy spiced chai cookies with icing. These cookies are so good and perfect for Christmas. The dough is a classic cookie dough packed with warm spices like cinnamon, allspice, pepper and nutmeg. Before baking, the cookies are rolled in cinnamon sugar, which gives the baked cookies even more flavour. Once cooled, they are topped with an icing flavoured with allspice.
Chai cookies are inspired by the warm or iced chai drink, a spice blend mixed with water or milk. It tastes wonderfully spiced and Christmassy. If you don’t have all the spices for the dough, you can easily use a ready-made chai spice blend instead. The dough can be made the day before, so the spices have time to develop. The baked cookies keep for a few weeks in a cookie tin. Also try my recipe for homemade Bastogne biscuits. Enjoy!
Chai cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Chai cookies
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the oil and the egg. Mix flour, icing sugar, vanilla sugar, baking soda, salt and all the spices. Beat it into the dough until smooth. Chill the dough for 1 hour.
Cinnamon sugar
Mix cinnamon and sugar.
Baking
Preheat the oven to 175°C (fan).
Divide the dough into about 15 pieces and roll them into balls. The dough is quite soft. Roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar. Line 1-2 baking trays with baking paper and place the balls on them.
Bake the cookies for about 12-15 minutes.
Icing
Stir the ingredients together into a thick icing.
Spread the icing on the cooled cookies and sprinkle with a little extra allspice if you like. Enjoy!
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