Recipe: Delicious Masala Chai Cookies

Masala Chai Cookies. Chai Masala is the spice used in spiced tea. It's similar to pumpkin spice-it doesn't imply that there's pumpkin inside. With these cookies, it's called Chai Masala because it doesn't have any tea inside, but instead leans on the spices often found in the tea.

This would be delicious served with Spicy Chai Molasses Cookies! Many thoughts appear in the mind, but it is the heart that holds one and not another. ~ Dorothy Hunt Call me a late bloomer, but it wasn't until I went to India and experienced Chai first hand that I fell in love with it. How To Make Chai Masala Recipe. You can have Masala Chai Cookies using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Masala Chai Cookies

1. You need 3 cups of All purpose flour (maida).
2. Prepare 1 cup of Sugar Powdered.
3. You need 200 grams of Unsalted butter slightly softened.
4. It's 1 of Egg.
5. It's 2 tbsps of Masala Chai (finely ground).
6. Prepare 1 of lime zest tp Grated (nimboo).
7. You need 1/4 tsp of salt th.
8. It's 30 of minutes Refrigeration.

To begin with, gather all the ingredients that we need to make the tea masala. Add all the ingredients into the jar of a blender. Grind them together to a coarse powder. Then, transfer the tea masala to a clean airtight container and store upto a month at room temperature.

Masala Chai Cookies step by step

1. Finely ground the tea in a mixer/ grinder..
2. Mix all purpose flour (maida), salt, and ground tea in a bowl. Set aside..
3. Beat the butter and powdered sugar until blended; add the egg and lime zest..
4. Gradually add the flour mixture until well blended..
5. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes..
6. Remove the dough from the fridge, roll the dough with hand into 1 inch balls, flatten and place on a baking tray..
7. I thought of adding some designs... easy way to separate husbands and my share :P.
8. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius; bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool..
9. Store in an air tight container. The fresh tea (packed in front of me) gives these cookies a slight spicy flavour..

Tea masala powder recipe an aromatic homemade spiced masala powder to be boiled with tea powder. If you like masala tea then this is must try for you as the spice powder is handy so making masala tea is very easy. Hubby loves tea,masala tea and all varieties of tea so made this homemade chai masala powder so that its handy while making tea. I minimally adapted the recipe from here, while. Mix together the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients.