This easy Chai Frosting recipe is naturally flavored with instant chai concentrate and masala chai ("chai tea") spices. You can use it as cake icing, or you can use it to frost cookies, cupcakes or other sweets.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: About 2 cups
Ingredients:
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) room-temperature butter
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp. ground cardamom
- 1/8 tsp. sea salt
- 2.5 cups sifted confectioners sugar
- 4 tbsp. instant chai concentrate (such as Rishi's Masala Chai Tea Concentrate)
Preparation:
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, cream all the ingredientys except for the confectioners sugar and "chai tea" concentrate.
- Once the butter mixture is light and fluffy, begin adding the sugar one heaping tablespoon at a time. Beat the mixture as you add the sugar, or beat it until it is smooth in between adding each scoop.
- Add three tablespoons of the chai concentrate. Beat until smooth
- Add more chai concentrate as needed to achieve the desired consistency.
- If desired, chill the frosting before using it to ice cake, cupcakes or other baked goods.
It yields rough two cups of frosting, which is enough to frost about one-dozen cupcakes or one eight-inch, two-layer layer cake.
