Chai Latte Cupcakes

I have been meaning to bake this since I saw this post at Laurie's Kitchen. I'm taking just Chai spice mix and using my favourite vanilla cupcake recipe. The frosting will be just simple whipped cream - just like latte!



Ingredients

• Chai Tea


• 5 bags of Chai tea


• 1 1/2 cups soy milk



• Chai Spice


• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon


• 1 teaspoon ground cardamon


• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger


• 1/4 teaspoon ground clove



• Cupcakes


• 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour


• 1 teaspoon baking powder


• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda


• 1/2 teaspoon salt


• 2 sticks butter - room temperature


• 2 cups sugar


• 4 eggs



• Whipped Cream


• 2 cups heavy cream - chilled


• 1/4 cup confectioner sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin pan with liners.
2. Make chai tea, boil soy milk with tea bags on medium heat. Stir occasionally until we have strong brewed tea - about 2 minutes. Let cool.


3. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and all the Chai spices.


4. With electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each addition. Add vanilla extract.


5. Alternately stir flour mixture and Chai soy milk into the butter mixture in 3 batches.


6. Drop by tablespoon into lined muffin pan up to 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Let cool.


7. Make whipped cream by beating heavy cream with cleaned electric mixer, fist at low speed and slowly increasing the speed until the cream forms stiff peak. Slowly add sugar. Beat until well combined. Drop by teaspoon over cooled cupcakes.


8. Make 24 cupcakes.

These cupcakes came out very nice and spicy. The whipped cream was a little too light for the cakes. I might try spiced butter cream next time.