Chai Cookie Recipe
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This Chai Cookie Recipe is a soft, flavor-packed sandwich cookie recipe with creamy filling. It’s a lovely addition to holiday cookie platters.
Chai Latte Cookies
This last Saturday was my final baking day before Christmas. I spent eleven hours baking and baking, until I had enough cookies to fill a plate for many of our close friends–and then some! It was very tiring, but I always enjoy the process of creating homemade gifts. It feels like you’re offering your loved ones a little piece of yourself!
My new favorite cookie recipe this season is one I’ve been working on for a while, Chai Latte Cookies. These little chai cookies are ultra tender with a creamy spice flavor and a dollop of cardamom vanilla frosting inside. Mmmmmmmmm.
Maybe it will become YOUR new favorite cookie. Peace on Earth and Goodwill to ALL!
Chai Cookie Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Unsalted butter
- Sugar
- Instant chai latte powder
- Large egg
- Vanilla extrct
- Recipe for Spiced Frosting
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Recipe Tips
- Cream the butter and sugar together thoroughly. This allows the sugar crystal to break down into the butter, making the cookies light and tender. Proper creaming usually take 3-5 minutes. It should look lighter in color and very smooth.
- Be sure to measure the ingredients carefully, especially the flour. Flour should be stirred and fluffed in the bag, then scooped into the measuring cups. Level the top of each cup before pouring the flour into the bowl. *Since American bakers don’t usually measure ingredients by weight, this is the best method for ensuring the proper amount of flour. Too much flour create dry dense cookies.
- Roll dough balls then slightly press the balls into disks before baking. Make sure the cookie dough disks are thick. This will create uniform round cookies with a gentle dome top.
Chai Latte Cookies Recipe
These little chai sandwich cookies are ultra tender with a creamy spice flavor and a dollop of cardamom vanilla frosting inside.
Servings: 40 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened (2 sticks)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar + extra for rolling
- 1/2 cup instant chai latte powder
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Spiced Frosting (recipe in notes)
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Baking your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter, sugar, and instant chai together until fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg, mix well. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add it to the sugar mixture until beaten smooth.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar to a small bowl. Roll tiny 1/2-inch balls of dough and place them in the sugar. Roll them around to coat and move them to a baking sheet, about an inch apart.
- Using the bottom of a glass, press the dough balls until they are slightly flattened out, but not thin, about 3/4 inch thick.
- Bake for approximately 8 minutes.
- Once cooled, pipe a small mound of spiced frosting onto half of the cookies (bottom-side-up). Top each cookie with another cookie. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Notes
FOR THE SPICED FROSTING:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons whole milk
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 103kcal, Carbohydrates: 12g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 16mg, Sodium: 42mg, Potassium: 29mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 6g, Vitamin A: 150IU, Vitamin C: 0.2mg, Calcium: 15mg, Iron: 0.5mg
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Hi! Instant chai mix isn’t available where I am so can I make my own? Do I have to add sugar to the chai mix or is the 1/2 cup sugar in your recipe enough for sweetness? Thanks.
Hi Sally,
Instant chia is typically sweet and has powdered dairy mixed in for a creamy chai texture. I’d love to hear what kind of chai mix you are using, to better help. Probably a little extra sugar would be a good idea. I don’t think you necessarily need to add anything for the dairy though.
Does this really need half a pound of butter or half a cup? Just don’t want to screw this up.
Hi Lauren,
Yes, that’s just 2 sticks of butter, or 1 cup.
LOVE this sandwich version of chai cookies! They look delicious!
These cookies were delicious! I did find that leaving the raw cookies out for 20 minutes before baking made them chewier and softer.
Sommer, I had to comment – these are wonderful!! I’ve made them twice now, once as a practice round (and my boyfriend demolished them), then again for a cookie swap at work. They were declared delicious by all…somewhat time intensive, but not difficult, and such a unique flavor. Thank you for the recipe, these are a new favorite!
WHERE DO YOU GET ‘INSTANT CHAI POWDER” FROM?????
I got mine at Trader Joe’s – it’s just instant chai mix (that you can stir into milk or water to make a chai latte drink). Cheap and delish…
Do the Chai Latte cookies freeze well? I really want to try them and also have a cookie exchange coming up in 2 weeks.
Hi Shannon! You know, they never last long enough to stick them in the freezer at my house. I’m sure the cookies would be fine in the freezer, but you may want to make the filling right before the event–just to be safe.
I really want to make these for my cookies swap–do they need to be refrigerated though???
Hi Barbara, If you are going to make these several days in advance I would refrigerate them. But if it’s just a day or two, they’ll be fine. :)
WHERE DO I FIND INSTANT CHAI POWDER?
Thank you, I have recently been searching for information about this topic for ages and yours is the best I have discovered so far.
What an at array of lovely cookies out there.Missed out the post and could not bake these for Christmas. Shall do it for the new year.
Happy 2011 to you!