Vanilla Chai Muffins {Recipe}

I have been loving my chai tea recently, so much so that I felt compelled to have it in cake form. I’m not a big lover of Christmas cake or mince pies so I thought this would be a good alternative… after all chai does have cinnamon in! These Vanilla Chai Muffins are really comforting and feel like a really naught treat.

Ingredients

120ml whole milk
3 vanilla chai tea bags
140g caster sugar
40g unsalted butter, at room temperature
100g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/4tsp vanilla extract

For the frosting
150g icing sugar
25g unsalted butter, at room temperature
125g cream cheese, cold
ground cinnamon to sprinkle over the top

Method

Muffins

• Put the milk in a jug and add the three tea bags to soak. I left it overnight in the fridge covered with some cling film
• Preheat the oven to 170˚c (Gas 3)
• Cream the sugar and butter together then add the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and mix well.
• Strain the tea bags out of the milk then beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
• Pour half the milk into the flour mixture then beat well until smooth, slowly pour in the remaining milk and continue mixing for a couple of minutes.
• Spoon the mixture into paper cases and bake in the pre-heated over for 20-30 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Excuse my messy frosting; piping is not my specialty but they tasted good and that is the main thing!