Cooking On The Weekends

Home » Comforting Sweet Recipes » Chocolate Chai Cookies

Chocolate Chai Cookies

By 25 Comments

Jump to Recipe

Chocolate Chai Cookies might just warm your heart and soothe your soul. Warming spices and melting chocolate make these one of the best exotic cookie recipes. Stack of 5 Chocolate Chai Cookies with a cinnamon stick.

These Chocolate Chai Cookies are near and dear to my heart.

I created this recipe more than a dozen years ago, and I’m sharing it for the first time. Well, sharing it in writing — many people have eaten them over the years!

Chai Chocolate Chunk Cookies in a small white mug with whole spices

What is Chai?

  • Chai is the generic word for tea in Hindi, a main language of India. Chai is derived from the Chinese word for tea, which is Cha.
  • Chai is a mix of spices steeped into a tea-like beverage, and recipes for it can vary greatly.
  • Traditional ingredients for Chai usually include black tea mixed with strong spices, like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger and black peppercorns.
  • The tea is typically brewed strong, and has milk and sugar or honey added to it.

There’s no tea in my Chocolate Chai Cookies — just the alluring, exotic spices.

Spices including cinnamon, peppercorns, cardamom, cloves and ginger in a white, tea pot shaped dish.

Fiery and sweet at the same time, this incredibly flavorful spice blend makes for a delicious and calming (yes, calming), cookie-eating experience.

They’ll warm your heart and soothe your soul. Try them and see.Several Chocolate Chai Cookies on a white cloths wiht whole spices around them.

These Chocolate Chai Cookies are hands down my favorite exotic cookie recipe I’ve ever made. Saying a lot, because I’ve made a lot of cookie recipes I love.

Stack of 4 Chai Chocolate Chunk Cookies, with one broken in half

Tips for Making Them

  • If you choose to grind whole spices, I suggest using an electric spice grinder, rather than a mortar and pestle. We want the spices as fine as possible. (You can also use pre-ground spices, of course.)
  • I use milk chocolate in this recipe. I have tested it with both semisweet and dark chocolate, and find that the milk chocolate doesn’t compete as much with the flavor of the spices.
  • The baking time is 7 minutes. You want them to be only slightly crisp on the edges and almost doughy looking in the very center. They will still be good if they’re baked a bit past this point, but I prefer the texture this way.
  • You can reuse the parchment paper after each batch is baked. No need to keep using new sheets.
  • Final tip: share! 🙂

a few Choclate Chai Cookies in a white coffee much.

Enjoy every last crumb of your Chocolate Chai Cookies!

More exotic cookie recipes:

5 from 4 votes
Several Chocolate Chai Cookies on a white cloths wiht whole spices around them.
Print
Chocolate Chai Cookies
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
7 mins
Refrigeration
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 27 mins
 

Chocolate Chai Cookies might just warm your heart and soothe your soul. Warming spices and melting chocolate fill a delicious soft, buttery cookie.

Makes 4 dozen | Serving size: 2 cookies

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cookies with spices, exotic cookies, exotic cookie recipes
Servings: 24
Calories: 253 kcal
Author: Valentina K. Wein
Ingredients
  • 14 ounces milk chocolate, roughly chopped
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon molasses
  • 1 large egg
Instructions
  1. Line a couple of baking sheets with parchment paper. Set them aside.
  2. Combine the chai spices in a small bowl and chop the chocolate. Set these aside, too.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, mix the flour and baking soda with the chai spices and salt.
  4. In a slightly larger mixing bowl, combine the softened butter with the sugars, vanilla, molasses, and cream. Then, gradually blend in the egg.
  5. Add the flour mixture and stir only until the flour is incorporated. Then fold in the chocolate chunks.

  6. Use an (approximately 1 1/4-inch) cookie scoop to shape the dough into balls, placing each one on the parchment-lined baking sheets as you go. (At this point, the balls can be very close together.) Cover the baking sheet with plastic wrap and refrigerate until the dough is firm, at least 1 hour.

  7. While the dough is in the refrigerator, preheat the oven to 350° F.

  8. Place 9 to 12 of the shaped cookie dough balls on another parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for about 7 minutes, just until the dough has solidified. It will still look a bit doughy -- which is perfect!
  9. Carefully remove the baked cookies with a metal spatula and place them on a cooling rack.
  10. Repeat this process until all of the cookies are baked.

Cooking On The Weekends is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. 

You may also like...

Subscribe to Cooking On The Weekends so you don’t miss any new, mouth-watering recipes!

Comments

  2. averagebetty says

    YUM! I love that you have listed the chai spices and didn’t use a packet of tea — brands can vary so much. I am a sucker for anything Chai — I must try these!! xoxoxo

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your beautiful family, Valentina!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Subscribe to Cooking On The Weekends so you don’t miss any new, mouth-watering recipes!

You have Successfully Subscribed!