I do love to give lots of food gifts at Christmas, but last year I waited too late and just didn't have it in me to conduct a marathon cookie-baking session at the last minute. And so I vowed to do something different this year. One of my favorite, most relaxing times to try a new recipe is on Sunday afternoons after church.
Why not start in November and bake and freeze a batch of cookies each week? I thought. So that's what I'm trying this year!
This week's
chai tea cookie was inspired by a feature on tea-and-coffee infused cookies in a Better Homes and Gardens
Christmas cookie magazine from 2009, which some of you probably own. Their cookies were crescent-shaped, but I wanted mine to be plain round ones.
The Butter Frosting is a great complement to the spicy chai flavor of the cookie, and if you look closely you can see bits of chai tea in the cookie. I love the whole "Tea and Coffee" cookie theme, and making one batch of them a week until time for gift-giving is easy and not very time consuming at all. Week One: Done!
I do love to give lots of food gifts at Christmas, but last year I waited too late and just didn't have it in me to conduct a marathon cookie-baking session at the last minute. And so I vowed to do something different this year. One of my favorite, most relaxing times to try a new recipe is on Sunday afternoons after church. Why not start in November and bake and freeze a batch of cookies each week? I thought. So that's what I'm trying this year!
This week's chai tea cookie was inspired by a feature on tea-and-coffee infused cookies in a Better Homes and Gardens Christmas cookie magazine from 2009, which some of you probably own. Their cookies were crescent-shaped, but I wanted mine to be plain round ones.
The Butter Frosting is a great complement to the spicy chai flavor of the cookie, and if you look closely you can see bits of chai tea in the cookie. I love the whole "Tea and Coffee" cookie theme, and making one batch of them a week until time for gift-giving is easy and not very time consuming at all. Week One: Done!
these look fantastic! Hope on over and I will brew up some of my caramel creme brulee and I would say that would be just right!
ReplyDeleteYour bake and freeze ahead Christmas cookie project is a winner !
ReplyDeleteYumm!!
ReplyDeleteWow, these look and sound delicious!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! And you will enjoy not having to rush to bake all these goodies next month.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious-- did you freeze them with the icing or do you intend to ice them after thawing? I would imagine that the icing would be better not frozen but I have no experience with that.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Gerri, I questioned that too but the frosting thickens up quickly and they froze beautifully! I'm going to test one before giving away, but so far they look perfect!
ReplyDeleteI say the same as Steph. These do look and sound good.
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