Taylor Swift Chai Cookies
Sweet, soft and spicy, this is the recipe for the megastar's popular Iced Chai Sugar Cookies – Aussie style!
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 132kcal
Equipment
- baking trays
- electric beaters
Ingredients
Chai Cookies
- ½ cup unsalted butter (125 grams) (softened at room temperature for ½ hour)
- ½ cup vegetable oil (125 ml)
- ½ cup caster sugar (110 grams)
- ½ cup icing sugar (70 grams)
- 1 egg (60-70 grams) (whisk lightly before adding)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups plain flour (270 grams)
- ½ teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 or 2 chai teabags (contents only)
Icing
- 1 ½ cups icing sugar
- 4 ½ tablespoons milk
- a little cinnamon and sprinkles (optional, to decorate)
Instructions
Chai Cookies
- Beat butter and oil together until combined. (Start on slow speed and increase to avoid oil splashes.)
- Add sugars, egg and vanilla extract and beat again until smooth.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (sifted together) along with the chai tea. Stir until combined.
- Chill mixture for about 1 hour.
- While mixture is chilling, pre-heat oven to 180 degrees celsius / 360 degrees fahrenheit and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Roll chilled mixture into balls (about 1 ½ tablespoons of mixture each) and place on prepared trays (allow room for cookies to spread).
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool on tray for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Allow to cool completely before icing.
Icing
- Sift icing sugar and then add milk, a little at a time, until you have a soft, slightly runny mixture.
- Place a teaspoon of the mixture on top of each cookie and allow to spread or encourage spreading using the back of the spoon.
- Decorate with a little sprinkle of cinnamon and gold or crystal sprinkles.
Notes
Storing: Store these cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to a few days. They'll last about a week if stored in an airtight container in the fridge. You can also freeze them.
Freezing: Freeze the baked cookies in freezer bags or an airtight container for up to 3 months.
Nutrition: The nutrition information is an automatically generated estimate and is not guaranteed to be accurate.
Nutrition
Calories: 132kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 29mg | Potassium: 20mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 133IU | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 1mg