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Vanilla chai cookiesdessert

Vanilla chai cookies

20 min180 cal3 g proteinServes 62,332 saves
Nicole RenardNicole Renard

Ingredients

  • 2 3/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 4 tsp Chai powder
  • 1 cup Unsalted butter softened
  • 1 cup White sugar
  • 1/2 cup Brown sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 1/4 cup White sugar
  • 1.5 Tbs Chia powder

Instructions

  1. 1In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, and chai powder.
  2. 2in a separate bowl, use a mixer to cream butter and sugar together until fluffy.
  3. 3add eggs and vanilla and beat for 1 to 2 more minutes.
  4. 4Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix on low until the flower is incorporated. Do not ever mix.
  5. 5refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes or overnight. This will prevent the cookies from spreading.
  6. 6preheat oven to 350. For the topping mix the sugar and chai powder in a small bowl.
  7. 7scoop the dough into balls and roll in the chai sugar mixture
  8. 8place on a baking sheet and bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are just starting to brown.
  9. 9ENJOY!!

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Cookies That Do Something Different

Everybody has a chocolate chip recipe. It's the cookie that shows up on the tray and gets asked about that makes a night, and most of them start with the same butter and sugar you already have.

Cooks on Pepper come here when they need something for a bake sale, a cookie swap, or a tin to hand off to a neighbor, and plain drop cookies won't cut it.

Every recipe here has a twist you can taste: warm spice in the vanilla chai cookies, browned butter and candy bar bits in the brown butter butterfinger cookies, oats and chocolate in cowboy cookies, cake mix shortcuts in the Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake Cookies, and crackly tops on the Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Chill the dough

    Rest the dough in the fridge 30 minutes to 2 hours so the cookies hold their shape and bake thicker instead of spreading flat.

  2. 2

    Brown the butter slowly

    Melt butter over medium heat 5 to 7 minutes until it smells nutty and the specks turn golden, then cool it 10 minutes before mixing.

  3. 3

    Weigh out even dough balls

    Scoop with a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop so all 12 on the pan finish baking at the same time.

  4. 4

    Pull them early

    Take cookies out when the centers still look soft, around 9 to 11 minutes, and let them set on the hot pan 5 minutes.

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