Chai tea consists of a blend of flavors coming from pepper, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger. Some strongly brewed tea is the base flavor for these thin cookie bars.
The batter consists of a mix of almond flour with a little all-purpose, sugar, ginger, cinnamon, orange zest, and honey. The brewed tea is added to melted butter and then all folded into the dough…which takes some time! In the end you have a beautiful smooth batter but you aren’t quite sure you are going to get there.
This is scraped into a 8×8 pan and popped into the oven for about 30 min. The cake is allowed to cool on a rack after removing from the pan. We are given the option of topping with melted milk chocolate or not…but just as Dorie said…I always go for the chocolate. 😂
After the chocolate is set, you can cut the bars into 16 squares.
So, these had mixed reviews. The most common statement was there was a layering of how the flavors hit you, but that the chocolate was very understated and the orange prominent. No one got much of a chai feeling…for those that had had chai tea before.
I feel like these fall into the “take it or leave it”category. Most people ate them, but wouldn’t necessarily want me to make them again.
Fun, but not worthy of a repeat for us.