These adorable deserts can be made two ways- the 'Vanilla Chai' way or the 'Chai Spice' way. I chose Vanilla Chai for this batch for a milder, sweater taste.
Makes 24 cupcakes!
Ingredients:
-1 box French Vanilla Cake mix (for vanilla chai)
OR
-1 box Spice Cake mix (for chai spice)
-1 can heavy vanilla frosting
-powdered chai tea mix (I used oregon chai, found at local grocery store)
-Any ingredients needed for the box cake mix (in my case 3 eggs and a quarter cup of oil)
-Cupcake liners & pan
-Ground Cinnamon
Supplies:
-green Starbucks straws (about 8 for 24 cupcakes)
-Starbucks hot/cold sleeves (atleast 24)
-Stapler & staples
-Scissors
-Ruler
Step One:
Bake you cupcakes!
Follow the instructions on the box for ingredients and amounts.
When adding dry ingredients, also add 4 tablespoons of powdered chai mix.
Make sure all ingredients are well blended (I beat batter on high for about 3 minutes).
Bake cupcakes as box instructs and let cool completely in pan (mine took around 30 mins total).
Step Two:
Mix your icing.
(This step is optional)
For an extra burst of chai flavor mix powdered chai into icing!
Approx. 1.5 tablespoons for an entire can of frosting. Blend well!
Step Three:
Make cupcake sleeves!
Cut straight lines across sleeves using ruler & scissors.
Undo the glue that holds the sleeve together. Then measure around the cupcake and staple sleeve where it will fit around the cupcake bottom. Trim excess cardboard. Make sure the bottom of the sleeve is nice and even- the cupcake will rock if it's not!
Place completely cooled cupcakes into sleeves.
Step Four:
Decorate!
Using a pastry bag (or a plastic baggie with the corner cut off) ice the cupcakes started on the outside brim and circling inward. This will make the icing look like whipped cream!
Top icing with ground cinnamon (a little goes a long way).
Cut green Starbucks straws into thirds and place one straw in each cupcake.
Enjoy!
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