Chai Tea Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Buttercream Frosting
The ultimate Christmas cookie! Everyone's favorite tea, mixed with the holiday classic...baked into a delicious cookie. Every bite of these Chai Tea Eggnog Cookies is sweet, buttery, perfectly spiced, and loaded with eggnog flavor. They are SO good!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 teabag chai tea
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 10 Tablespoons salted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 2 Tablespoons eggnog
- 1 teaspoon bourbon
Frosting
- ¾ cup salted butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 Tablespoons eggnog
Instructions
Cookies
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line sheet pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Grind chai.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and ground chai. Set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy.
- Beat in egg, eggnog, and bourbon.
- Add flour mixture.
- Mix only to combine.
- Use a cookie scoop or spoon to drop cookie dough onto prepared pans.
- Flatten slightly.
- Bake for 8 minutes, until just starting to brown around edges.
Frosting
- Beat butter.
- Add powdered sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggnog.
- Spread frosting on cooled cookies.
Notes
- If your tea bag has a whole cardamom pod, crack open the pod and discard the shell.
- Do not leave chunks of spice! This needs to be a fine powder.
- Do not beat the butter and sugar for the cookies. Just until creamed.
- 1 tea bag = 1 1/2 teaspoons ground chai.
- If you don't want to use bourbon in the cookies, you can use vanilla extract.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 209kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 2gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 144mgPotassium: 25mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 372IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 11mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.