Chai cupcakes

Last weekend I gave the chai cupcake recipe another spin! One of my new workmates drinks chai latte in the office and every time I smelt it I told him that I would make him a chai cupcake to eat.

I found it easier to make the cupcakes in a single flavour rather than splitting it between vanilla and chai. I am not too sure what I did differently but the first time I tried the recipe I only had enough batter for ten cupcakes. This time around I had too much for twelve and should have made a spare thirteenth... or eaten the leftover batter.

At any rate I wanted to spice up the icing - rather than having just a plain vanilla - and KroissantK* suggested that cinnamon would complement the chai cupcake nicely. I added ground cinnamon to the icing recipe and also sprinkled the icing with the cinnamon. The spice in the icing was nice but I am not so sure about the sprinkle as the cinnamon has melted into the icing and made it look slightly diseased.

Still, the cupcakes were appreciated by C and the boys at work and that is all that matters!


The chai flavour in the cupcakes comes from chai latte powder. It is a quick and easy way to impart a pseudo chai flavour into the cupcakes. Even though it says "spice" on the tin, the ingredients list is a bit scary and I hesitated before I purchased the box. (Image)

* My mother and I visited KroissantK to meet her new baby. We were impressed that with a month old baby and a toddler she managed to make us beautiful croissants and pain au chocolat from scratch! In honour of that, and to differentiate all of the random letters that make up my friends, I have deemed her KroissantK.