Maple Chai Sugar Cookies
Do you enjoy cookies? You can enjoy cookies at any time and share them with friends and family. I have a new favorite of mine that I would like to share with you. This Maple Chai Sugar Cookies recipe is a good one and you and your loved ones may just fall in love.
Servings: 24
Equipment
- 1 disposable piping bag
- 1 3in round cookie cutter
- 1 bbq brush
Ingredients
- 1 ½ C unsalted butter softened
- 1 ¼ C light brown sugar
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 4 ¼ C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp cardamom
- ½ tsp allspice
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
Chai Sugar topping
- ¼ C melted butter
- ½ C sugar
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp cardamom
- ½ tsp allspice
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
Maple Icing
- 1 C powdered sugar
- 2 tsp pure maple extract
- 2-5 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or a silicone mat
- Using a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice, nutmeg, salt, and black pepper
- Using another large bowl and hand mixer, beat together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time until combined
- Beat in the vanilla until combined
- Gradually beat in the dry ingredients until combined and a dough has formed
- Sprinkle some flour onto a cutting board and roll the dough out into ¼ in thick
- Use the cookie cutter and cut out circles
- Place 12-14 circles onto a cookie tray and bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until the cookies are lightly brown
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing and placing onto a wire rack
- Once all cookies have baked, allow cooling completely on the wire rack
- Using a small bowl, whisk together the chai sugar topping ingredients until combined
- Melt the butter in a small bowl
- Using the bbq brush, dip it into the melted butter and lightly brush the butter onto the cookies
- Sprinkle the chai spiced sugar onto the cookies
- Using a large bowl, whisk together the maple icing ingredients
- If the icing is lumpy whisk in 1-2 more tsp of milk
- Scoop the icing into the piping bag
- Cut the tip off the piping bag and drizzle lines over the cookies
- Allow the icing to set before enjoying