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10 Ways to Cook with Chai Plus Chai Shortbread Cookies with Sea Salt

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Goodbye summer’s afternoon diet coke, hello chai latté de fall.

Now that my coffee shop is just 18 strides from my office desk—when you work at home you have the luxury of doing things like actually counting how far the kitchen is from the computer—I’m finding that my afternoon routine has made a major switcheroo.

Lately I’ve been craving a different afternoon pick me up rather than the cold diet soda I sometimes wished could be pumped straight into my veins. I’ve been craving a cuppa something hot.

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I tend to get all wrapped up in what I’m working on, so lately I’ve been making it a point to get up from my chair, move away from the computer screen, stretch my legs and clear my head with a 5-minute afternoon timeout.

My new favorite ritual is partaking of a moment in the waning afternoon sun, sitting on my deck with my chihuahua in my lap and a simple coffee drink in my hand. Lately my favorite has been an afternoon latte. Warm, milky and creamy.

I’ve been making them for myself the past few days and adding a dose of Tipu’s Chai Now, an instant Chai mix from a sweet little company based in Montana. Chai tea in Montana? Apparently so. And no, there’s nary a sign of steers or roping cowboys on their packaging.

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Savoring the warming flavors of Chai—cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg—got me thinking I should be cooking something tasty that included the same flavors I love drinking.

And then Smudge started asking me for cookies. And then I put two and two together and waah-laah, Chai Shortbread Cookies were being created in my kitchen.

Oddly, I was compelled to add chocolate and sea salt. I’m sure you’ll understand.

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Chai Shortbread Cookies with Sea Salt

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Ingredients 

  • 2 sticks butter
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoons vanilla
  • ¾ tablespoons Tipu's Chai Now mix or 1 tablespoon chai tea ground fine
  • 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • ½ cup cream
  • 1 tablespoon sea salt

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add vanilla and blend well. In a separate bowl combine flour, salt and Chai mix and fluff with a fork or whisk. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture and mix until ingredients come together. Mixture will be crumbly. Mold dough into an 8-inch log, cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour or 20 minutes in the freezer.
  • With a serrated bread knife cut logs into ¼-inch thick discs and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 12 minutes. Cool on a baking sheet.
  • While cookies are baking, prepare the chocolate chip ganache. In a small saucepan add 1-inch of water, place a glass or heat-proof bowl filled with chocolate chips over the saucepan and bring water to a boil. Stir chocolate chips often as they melt. Add cream and mix until smooth. Remove from heat.
  • Dip cookies halves into chocolate mixture and lightly sprinkle with sea salt.

Notes

Adapted from MyRecipes.com

Nutrition

Serving: 12g

The feeling of fall leaves us plenty of room for more chai-inspired recipes, and there’s even one you can make for dinner!

Christina makes it impossible to pass up these gorgeous little creamy Chai peaks in Dessert for Two’s Pumpkin Chai Cupcakes

Karen did it again! Nutty brown rice flour gives sweet carrots the perfect lift in Gluten-Free Goddess’ Gluten-Free Carrot Bread with Chai Spices

Yes there are a few steps and a few ingredients in this recipe created for Marsh Madness, but oh man, does Bree bring it again with Baked Bree’s Chai Latte Marshmallows 

 With 3 active boys to shoosh out of the house for school, Alison has found the secret to a hearty and simple breakfast with This Homemade Life’s Overnight Chai Steel Cut Oats 


Staving off her Starbucks Pumpkin Chai latté addiction, Carey has given the rest of us a new addiction with Reclaiming Provincial’s Chai Iced Pumpkin Cookies


With holiday baking around the corner, I have my eye on the sweet love note of a dessert Caitlin presented to Charles in Judicial Peach’s White Chocolate Chai Truffles

The humble almond’s health benefits abound in Leanne’s spiced-up Chai Spice Roasted Almonds from Healthful Pursuit

Kita goes double Chai-time using both chai concentrate plus chai tea in Pass the Sushi’s Chai Pumpkin Spice Thumbprints 

Yes! Finally! A savory main meal recipe with our feature ingredient: introducing da, da, da, dahhhhh! Dan’s Good Side’s Chai Spiced Salmon Steaks. Ah, Dan you are the man!

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Disclosure: I was sent a sample pack of Tipu’s Chai Now tea but I was not compensated for this post and all opinions are my own. I just like the tea. And they’re from Montana and keeping it real in the old west.

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  3. Essay Writer UK

    5 stars
    The recipes been shared to prepare the dessert seems to be very plenty delicious and that i bet every one should supply it a try and wonder their visitors by way of serving this dessert to them.

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  7. Tammy Ane

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  18. Robin

    Hi! These cookies look so good that I decided to make them for our company cookie swap and bake off. I have one question though. The recipe says to dip the cookie in the ganache but in the photo, it appears more as if there was a “shmeer” of ganache on top? I would prefer the “shmeer”, can I assume you used the ganache as written in the recipe?

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    • Avatar photoheidi

      I dipped and schmeared both. The schmear gets you a more even edge but a dip tastes just as good :) totally your choice and yes, I used the ganache as in the recipe.

      Reply

  21. Allison

    Hi Heidi!
    I loved this whole post on chai recipes and needed to reach out. I work at Bhakti Chai in Boulder Colorado and we fresh press about 1700 pounds of fresh ginger every week to add to our spicy, micro-brewed chai. As a chai lover, I just wanted to make sure knew about us. Email me if you’re interested in chatting! Also, I love your photos and wanted to see if we might be able to use a few on a new website we’re designing — in the recipes section (giving you credit, of course). Look forward to hearing from you!

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  34. Elise Hagood

    You have no idea how perfect this is for me! Thank you for posting so many delicious things to make with my favorite morning ritual: Chai!

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  36. carrian

    These are beautiful and I bet your porch is perfect for relaxing year round. Maybe someday you’ll look out the window, and there I’ll be. A little wave, and back to my book… or maybe that’d be creepy. eh, I don’t care. ;)

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  37. Becky

    confession… I’m a chai lover!! It’s my very favorite drink. If you ever go to the Beehive Tea Room you must get their green tea chia, it’s out of this world!! I’ll be trying these cookies for sure!

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  39. Varada at Tipu's Chai

    Thanks for your kind words about our little chai company in Montana. And these are awesome recipes, can’t wait to try some of them myself. I have experimented with putting chai in just about everything from marmelade to oatmeal to peach pie but never dreamed of some of these ideas! Very glad you liked the chai and I look forward to continuing to read your creative and beautifully illustrated posts. You have class, Heidi!

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  40. Wendy@chezchloe

    I’m a chai lover and happy to see some many ideas in one place. One of my favorites I do at Christmas is a masala style milk chocolate truffle.
    From here, I will first have a go with the chai oats.

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  43. Erin

    I’ve been holding out on starting being excited for fall but between the 40˚ weather in Illinois, a new pair of boots, and this post- I think I have to give in. I want those cookies (and anything that is topped with chocolate/sea salt is fine by me!)

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  47. Kathryn

    Chai tea always reminds me of being at university and spending hours in Starbucks ‘revising’ over a cup with friends. I’ve made other tea shortbread before but not chai tea shortbread; love this idea (especially with the sea salt and chocolate!)

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