No original recipe here, folks!
Just a quick note to say I tried the Taylor Swift chai-spiced sugar cookie recipe, and they were delicious.
I think you all know I’m a Swiftie.
I, too, was born in 1989 and I grew up with Taylor singing relatable songs about being 22 and falling out of love.
My friend Rachel recently started hosting a monthly girls’ night crafty potluck get-together, and I decided that some warm spicy cookies would be perfect for the event.
I started googling recipes for chai sugar cookies and — even though I’m a huge fan of both baking AND Taylor Swift — I somehow completely missed it when she posted about chai tea cookies on her Tumblr years and years ago.
Joy the Baker’s recipe popped up at the top of my feed, and I decided to give them a try.
I’ve actually made these cookies twice now. I made them once back in January for Rachel’s get-together, but I canceled last-minute because that potluck was at the same time the Lions were playing in the NFC Championship, and I was a little too tired afterward to make it over.
I split that batch of cookies up. I ate a few, dropped some off at my office and dropped some off at my yoga studio.
I got such rave reviews, I decided to try them again for Rachel’s February get-together.
Winter is such a good time for these cookies. They’re warm and spicy and cozy and (as one of my friends said) “basically jacked-up snickerdoodles” which makes them absolutely ideal for our brisk Flagstaff winters.
The first time I made these cookies, I applied the icing as instructed. The second time (pictured in this post) I ran out of powdered sugar, so there wasn’t as much icing.
I definitely recommend using all the icing that the recipe calls for, and making it really thick so it’s less of a glaze and more of a frosting. That way, it doesn’t just slide off the cookies.
A few other notes: I’ve tried both vegetable oil and shortening as my “neutral oil” and I have to say that shortening works the best.
I’ve also played around using both vanilla oat milk and eggnog in my icing. A thicker icing made with eggnog is definitely the way to go!
I made medium-sized cookies and baked them for about 10 minutes, BUT, keep in mind I live at altitude, so if you’re at sea level, you may want to stick the to recipe exactly as it’s written.
Happy baking!
This post was originally published March 8, 2024. It was last updated Oct. 9, 2024.
