Chocolate Chai Snickerdoodles
photo by LaurietheLibrarian 
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
- dozen
ingredients
- 2 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
directions
- Preheat over to 350°F.
- In large mixing bowl, stir together sugar and spices; set 1/2 cup of the mixture aside.
- Add butter to mixing bowl and cream with sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in cocoa powder, followed by the eggs and vanilla.
- Stir in flour and baking powder by hand or at low speed.
- Form dough into 1-inch balls and roll in reserved sugar mixture.
- Bake at 350F for 12-15 minutes or until edges are firm.
- Cool on wire rack and store in an airtight container.
Questions & Replies
- I have a pre-made masala chai spice mix that I bought from the store one day and was wondering if I could use that in place of the ginger, cinnamon and cardamom in this recipe? If so, would I just use the same measurements (ie. roughly 3 teaspoons total)?
Reviews
- We liked these very much. On the last few trays, I added sparkling white sugar on the tops to add some glitz. We doubled the recipe and I know that they won't last long! Thanks Greysangel!
- These cookies are delicious as well as easy! Even my daughter loved them - she's a snickerdoodle lover (original recipe), but she loved these just as much! I didn't have cardamom - tried a little coriander I had on hand. Next time I'll try a better quality cocoa and cardamom. Thanks for sharing!
- These cookies are quite easy to assemble and have a lovely, subtle spicy flavor. I baked for the full 15 minutes. They puff up when baking and the resulting cookies are uniformly shaped. My family loves the spicy cinnamon/chocolate combination. I saved the leftover spicy cinnamon sugar mixture to use on breakfast toast.
- Made these cookies for gift-giving. They are sooo lovely -- the cookies came out very uniform, and the spices and sugar made a lovely crunch. We all love these cookies, and so do my neighbor and my friends who received them!!
