Taylor Swifts Chai Spiced Sugar Cookies

Taylor Swifts Chai Spiced Sugar Cookies are the ultimate autumnal recipe. Perfect for a chilly afternoon wrapped in a blanket watching the leaves fall from the trees. Turn up the music and prepare to get cosy!

Leave it to our Tay-Tay to give the humble sugar cookie an autumnal make over. She took an already delicious recipe, originally from the queen of baking Joy the Baker, and made it even better. You guys know me, I’ll add cinnamon to anything and say it’s the bees knees. Since their creation in 2009 the internet lights up every year with Swifties everywhere clamouring to make the famous bake so I thought I’d add my interpretation to the mix. A deliciously soft and chewy chai spiced sugar cookie topped with a lightly spiced chai frosting. Prepare to meet your new favourite cookie.

In the original Taylor recipe the cookies are topped with an Eggnog glaze. Eggnog isn’t really a popular ingredient in the UK, you can get it in specialist stores or online but it tends to be quite expensive and for the sake of the tiny amount in the frosting, I didn’t think it worth buying. I went with a chai spiced frosting instead which makes these cookies even more luxurious. Give it a try, you’ll love it.

Here’s what you’re going to need for Taylor Swifts Chai Spiced Sugar Cookies:

• Unsalted Butter – Make sure your butter is at room temperature before you start, this makes blending the sugar much easier.
• Sunflower Oil – You can use any neutral flavoured oil here.
• Caster Sugar – A little bit of caster sugar helps with the structure of the cookies.
• Icing Sugar – Also known as confectioners sugar. This is used in both the cookies and the frosting for a delicious texture.
• Eggs – Always large, always free range!
• Vanilla Extract – Always use a pure vanilla extract, there’s nothing worse than vanilla essence. Yuck!
• Plain Flour – Sometimes called All Purpose flour.
• Chai Spices – Cinnamon, Ginger, Allspice and Cardamom are combined in this recipe to create a delicious chai spice. This gives the cookies a delicious warming flavour.
• Salt – Use fine salt when baking so it can be evenly distributed throughout the bake. Use flaked salt to finish recipes.

Tips for making Taylor Swifts Chai Spiced Sugar Cookies:

• Butter – Always start with room temperature butter. It’s much easier to cream with the sugar and will give a much better texture to the finished cookie.
• Sugar – A mixture of icing and caster sugar gives the cookie a deliciously soft texture. You can use 100% caster sugar if you’d prefer a stiffer cookie.
• Chai Spice – You can sub out the individual spices for the same amount of chai powder or even the contents of a Chai Spiced teabag.
• Scooping – For larger cookies like these I like to use a small ice cream scoop. Mine is vintage but you can pick them up in most supermarkets or online. Amazon do a good set for different cookie sizes.
• Eggnog Frosting – If you want to be extra authentic to the original Taylor recipe substitute the milk in the frosting for Eggnog.
• Freezing – You can freeze the cookie dough, just make up until step 6 and place them in the freezer. Once the cookies are frozen solid you can pop them in a freezer bag until needed. Just add 2 minutes to the original baking time when baking from frozen.
• Gluten Free – If you want to make these cookies gluten free simply swap the flour out for your favourite GF plain flour. I love Doves!

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