Chai Cupcakes
Tomorrow marks the arrival of Autumn which is my absolute favorite time of the year! Needless to say, there will be a liberal use of exclamation marks in this post. Autumn means warm and spicy liquids, toppling over with mounds of whipped cream, flushed cheeks, fuzzy mittens, and a dazzling array of bold foliage on display. One of my favorite Autumn-y beverages is a steaming swirl of spicy chai in frothy milk so I figured why not make it into a cupcake to celebrate the arrival of Autumn?–yaaaaay!!!
Chai Cupcakes
Author: The Squishy Monster
Ingredients
- ½ c unbleached cake flour
- ½ ts baking soda
- ½ ts baking powder
- ¼ ts fine salt
- ½ ts ground cinnamon
- ¼ ts ground cardamom
- ¼ ts ground ginger
- ¼ ts ground nutmeg
- ¼ ts ground cloves
- 1 grind of black pepper
- ¼ c granulated sugar
- ¼ c brown sugar
- 2 tb softened butter
- 2 tb apple sauce*
- 1 room temperature egg
- ¼ c warm buttermilk
- 3 chai tea bags
- ½ ts apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Sift all of your dry ingredients into your first bowl (excluding your spices).
- In a separate cup, steep your tea bags for at least 5 minutes. Scoot in all of your spices and let it sit.
- In your third bowl, cream together your sugars and butter. Slowly stream in your egg.
- Still working with your third bowl, spoon in your apple sauce (if you’re using it) and also slip in your spiced tea mixture. Next, dribble in your apple cider vinegar.
- Lastly, you want to marry your first bowl with your third bowl–sprinkle in your dry mixture in about 3 separate additions, taking care not to over mix.
- Bake at 350 for 17-22 minutes for standard size cupcakes.
- Cool and frost with cream cheese frosting.
Love & Warm & Spicy Kisses,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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G’day! Sounds and looks amazing Angela! YUM!
Wish I could try one now!
Cheers! Joanne
So delicate, lovely and delicious looking! Thank you Angie!
How many cupcakes does this make? I just made the batter and it doesn’t look like it can even fill one 12 cavity cupcake pan unless I made it wrong.
Hi Lisa! In the video, I created minis and it produced about a dozen for me. For standards, it should fill about 4-6.
Oh, those are mini cupcakes? They look like regular sized ones. I made regular sized cupcakes and measured them perfectly with the Wilton cupcake measures and it made only four regular sized cupcakes. If I had made mini’s I’m sure I would have gotten the same amount as you.
I prefer the regular sized cupcakes for this particular recipe so I’ll just make sure to double the recipe next time. Thanks for your help.