Chai Latte Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe - Serendipity And Spice (2024)

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients:

• 2 C sugar
• 2 tsp. Wildtree Chai Tea Mix
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground allspice
• 1 C butter, room temp
• 2 eggs, room temp
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 2 3/4 C flour
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/8 tsp salt

Chocolate Ingredients:

• 1 bag of Ghirardelli white chocolate wafers

Icing Ingredients:

• 2 egg whites
• 1 C powder sugar
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Green and red gel food coloring

Instructions

1. Cookie Directions:
2. -Preheat over to 350'
3. -Combine the sugar, chai tea mix, cinnamon, ginger, and all spice.
4. -Take out a half cup of the above sugar mixture and put it in a bowl set to the side for later
5. -Cream the butter and the rest of the sugar mixture until it is light and fluffy.
6. -Mix in the eggs and vanilla to the sugar mixture.
7. -Sift the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl .
8. Add this dry mixture gradually to creamed sugar mixture mixture and mix well.
9. -Scoop the dough using a small ice cream scoop then; put these balls onto the lined cookie sheet.
10. - Take each ball one at a time and roll each dough ball into the sugar mixture and place back on the lined cookie sheet
11. -Place the dough balls at least 2 in. apart on the cookie sheets.
12. -Bake at 350' degrees for 10-13 minutes or until edges begin to brown.
13. -Allow for the cookies to slightly cool while still on the cookie sheet.
14. -Move to a wire rack to cool completely.
15. Chocolate Directions:
16. -Using a double boiler melt the white chocolate, stirring constantly
17. Icing Directions:
18. -Separate the egg yolk from the whites. putting only the egg whites into a mixing bowl.
19. -Stir in the sugar, cream of tarter and vanilla to the egg whites.
20. -Beating on medium for 6 minutes.
21. -If the icing has the appearance of soup or is yellow in color add more powder sugar, 1 cup.
22. -Divide the icing equally into two bowls.
23. -In the 1st bowl add some of the green gel food coloring, stirring to blend in the color.
24. -In the 2nd bowl add some of the red gel food coloring, blend in all of the food coloring.
25. -Scoop all of the green and red icing in individual piping bags with #2 tips.
26. Adding the Chocolate and Holly & Berries:
27. -Dip half of each cookie into the melted white chocolate.
28. -Allow to dry by laying the cookies on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
29. -Using the green and red icing add the holly and berries to each cookie.
30. -Begin by using the green icing to make the holly, refer to the picture of the cookies for further examples.
31. -Allow the holly to dry for 30 seconds before making three small red dots with the red icing.
32. -Allow for this to dry completely.