Chai Tea Mini Biscuits Recipes

Steps:

• Combine flour, white sugar, powdered sugar, tea mix, and salt in a food processor or small chopper. Pulse until tea is pulverized and distributed throughout the dry ingredients. Mix in cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice, and cloves. Add butter and vanilla extract. Pulse together just until a rough dough is formed.
• Scrape out dough onto a piece of wax or parchment paper. Form dough into an 8-inch log. Cover with paper and roll the log until smooth. Chill for at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
• Use a sharp knife to slice the chilled log of dough into 1/3-inch-thick pieces. Place on the baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are just beginning to brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Steps:

• Cook milk in a small non-aluminum saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring once, 2 to 3 minutes or just until bubbles appear (do not boil); remove from heat.
• Add tea bags; cover and steep 5 minutes. Remove and discard tea bags from milk, squeezing gently.
• Stir together sugar, cinnamon, and flour in a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or a fork until crumbly. Add 3/4 cup milk mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Reserve remaining milk mixture for later use.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead lightly 4 to 5 times with floured hands. Pat dough to 3/4-inch thickness; cut biscuits out with a 1 1/2-inch round cutter. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet.
• Bake at 400 degrees F for 6 to 7 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes.
• Whisk together reserved 1 tablespoon milk mixture and powdered sugar until smooth. Drizzle over warm biscuits and serve.
• TO MAKE AHEAD:.
• Prepare biscuits, and freeze, without glaze, in a zip-top plastic freezer bag up to 2 weeks.
• To reheat, thaw biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet 30 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees F for 4 to 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
• Whisk together 1 tablespoon milk and 1/2 cup powdered sugar until smooth. Drizzle glaze evenly over biscuits, and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.
• For the tea: Pour the boiling water over the tea in a small heatproof bowl and let it steep while you heat the cream.
• Heat the cream in a pot over medium heat, stirring, until just boiling. Do not overheat as it might separate. Add the cream to the tea mixture and let it steep for at least 15 minutes.
• For the crust: Pulse the biscuits in a food processor until finely ground. Transfer to a medium bowl. Add the butter, granulated sugar and salt and mix well.
• Place about 2 tablespoons of the crumb mixture into each cupcake liner and press into the bottom. (There will be some leftover crumbs; use them to sprinkle over the caramel sauce if desired, or on top of other desserts.) Bake until the crusts are light golden brown at the edges, about 7 minutes.
• For the cheesecake: Beat together the cream cheese and jaggery in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until just mixed, less than 1 minute.
• Strain the cream mixture and press on the tea leaves to release as much flavor as possible.
• Add the infused cream, cardamom powder, ginger powder, vanilla and salt to the cream cheese mixture and beat until just combined. Mix in the eggs by hand one at a time, until just combined. (Take care not to overmix or the cheesecake may puff up and crack when baking.)
• Pour the batter equally over the prepared crusts, filling each one almost to the top, and smooth the tops with the back of a spoon. Bake until the outside of the cakes are set but the centers are still slightly loose, about 20 minutes. Let the cheesecakes cool in the pan for 1 hour. It is normal for the cheesecakes to sink a little in the middle.
• Gently remove the cakes with the muffin liner, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Remove the liners just before serving. Drizzle the Salted Chai Caramel Sauce over the cheesecakes. Store any leftover cheesecakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
• Combine the tea, cardamom and ginger in a small heatproof bowl. Pour the boiling water over the mixture and let it steep while you heat the cream.
• Heat the cream in a pot over medium heat, stirring, until just boiling. Do not overheat as it might separate. Add the cream to the tea mixture, mix well and let it steep for 15 minutes.
• Combine the granulated sugar and 1/4 cup water in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, swirling the pan but not stirring, until the mixture turns a medium amber, 8 to 10 minutes. Watch the mixture towards the end as it can go from a nice caramel to a burnt caramel very fast. Remove from the heat.
• Strain the cream mixture and press on the tea leaves to release as much flavor as possible. Carefully add the cream mixture to the caramelized sugar. It is normal for the mixture to bubble like mad. Add the butter and salt and mix well until the butter is melted. Let cool completely, then transfer to jars and refrigerate up to a month.