Chai Spiced Coffee Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Combine the flour, brown sugar, chai spice and salt in a small bowl and mix well. Add the butter and mix thoroughly with your fingers or a fork until all of the butter has been evenly distributed and incorporated into the flour. Form into small to medium clumps with your fingers.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the flour, beating until just incorporated.
• Spoon the cake batter (it will be very thick) into the prepared pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Sprinkle on the crumb topping.
• Bake until the cake and topping are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan 20 minutes, then invert onto a plate; invert again onto a rack to cool completely.
• When the cake is cool, whisk the confectioners' sugar and bourbon together in a medium bowl until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the cake and let set.

Steps:

• NOTE: the amount of ground coffee indicated is estimated. Adjust amount according to the type of coffee maker you use. In fact, all ingredient amounts are estimated.
• Place the ground coffee in the coffee maker/basket. Fill the coffee maker with water. Please try to use filtered water if possible.
• Add the spices.
• Brew coffee.
• Sit back and enjoy!
• Serving suggestion: we like our coffee with heavy cream (aka whipping cream), a little bit of unrefined cane sugar (Sucanat) or agave nectar to sweeten.