Chai Tea Cookies

Well, it's the end of another week! I hope everyone is ready for a great weekend!

This week it was a little quiet around our house as Maddy went to camp!  Big Al was quite happy to have Mum and Dad all to himself but I think that he quietly missed his big sister quite a lot. I did some baking to cheer him up and I think it helped as he now seems back to his usual happy self!


I found this great recipe for Earl Grey tea biscuits on the Martha Stewart site but since Big Al isn't really a fan of earl grey tea, I changed it a bit to make vanilla chai tea cookies.

The recipe is almost identical to the original from Martha.
The ingredients are
2 cups of flour
2 Tablespoons tea leaves (about 4-8 tea bags, depending on the size of the tea bags)
2 sticks/ 8 ounce or 225grams of butter (I used salted and didn't add extra salt to unsalted butter as the recipe suggests)
1/2 cup confectioners/icing sugar
2 tablespoons cornflour
2 teaspoons each of cinnamon and nutmeg
2 tablespoons vanilla extract.

I used Twinings Chai tea for this recipe as this is the chai tea that I regularly drink....the aroma of this tea is just so beautiful!

The first thing I did was grind the tea leaves. 

Next I sifted the flour and then added the tea leaves and the spices to the bowl.

In another bowl I beat the butter, vanilla, sugar and cornflour together for about 3 minutes.

I then added the dry ingredients and mixed everything together until well combined.

I then halved the mixture and rolled it into plastic wrap. It would have been much better to use baking/parchment paper like Martha suggests but I had run out!

You then chill the dough until it is hard again. I kept mine in the freezer for about 1 hour.


When ready to bake, set the oven to about 350 F or 180 C or gas mark 4. Slice the log into 1/4-inch-thick slices and place on lined baking trays.


Bake them until the edges start to go a little brown and cool.

Time for 5 minutes just for me!

I enjoyed a couple of these delicious biscuits for morning tea as I read a new book that my Grandmother gave me recently.

It is a book called Aroma and it is all about aromatherapy, (which I am very passionate about; click here to see my recent post) in cooking! 

Thanks Nan! You know me well! 

I really enjoyed reading this beautiful book while sipping my hot tea.

Well, I have had my 5 minutes...I guess I'd better go and get some other jobs done...like cleaning all of those messy dishes from my baking!


As always, I am so happy that you came to spend 5 minutes of your time with me today and I really appreciate your visit! Thank you!


Don't forget to join me on Sunday for my Sunday Song post.

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Best wishes for a beautiful weekend,

Natasha In Oz 

Cooking is like love.  It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.  Harriet van Horn