Chai Cinnachip Muffins by zimngir
Category: Desserts - Cakes

This recipe is suitable for a: vegetarian/vegan diet.


Ingredients:
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Chai Cake/Muffins
Chef Deb

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup natural sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 cup soymilk

8 chai tea bags (or Bengal Spice)

2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup oil

1/2 cup cinnamon chips (omit for a vegan option)

Ener-G Egg Substitute for 1 egg, beaten


Instructions:
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Preheat oven to 350 F.
Grease a muffin pan with 6 cups (texas sized) or an 8" cake pan.
In a saucepan, put soymilk gently on low heat.
Add tea bags, and simmer 15 minutes, pressing tea bags gently to extract flavor.

Wring out tea bags into soymilk. Top up with more soy milk back to 3/4 cup. Put
this flavored soymilk in fridge to cool.
In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Combine remaining ingredients, including flavored soymilk, and add to flour
mixture.
Beat for 2 minutes. If too stiff, add a bit more soy milk.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out
dry.
Makes one 8" cake or 6 muffins.


Additional comments:
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These are my favorite muffins and this is Chef Deborah's recipe.



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JUST MADE THESE AN THEY WERE YUMMMMMMMMMMMMY!!!

I'm only interested in trying "tried-and-true" or "personal favorites" recipes from these boards, so this was a great one to start with... there's way too many "cut and paste" recipes posted that I have no idea if they're any good or not.

THANKS! :drool: *off to have my muffins and mug of my favorite Chai tea...*

...yum. :yes: everyone should definitely try these...they are tasty, healthy and just the right consistency. I used a small pack of applesauce instead of Ener-G (I've never really liked the weird powdery egg replacers) and it worked fine! These are a total hit...

That looks awesome!

I wanted to bump this up cuz if you've never tried this...the Chai Cake by chef Deb is my absolute favorite muffin / cake recipe :lick: Try it!

Where does one get cinnamon chips? I've never seen those! The recipe does look really good.

I'm going to have to try these... Do they come out very moist? Do they rise much?

I'm hoping someone knows of vegan cinnachips? I've seen some Hershey ones at the market, but they had something "unvegan" (milk, I think) in them.

They come out really moist with a great texture and rise up really nice. I would think these would be really good with walnuts as well. I am going to google now to see if I can find vegan cinnamon chips.

I have not seen cinnamon chips in a good while. This is one of my fave recipes :)

Could I make them into cupcakes? and what would you frost them with

Could I make them into cupcakes? and what would you frost them with

Yes ma'am that is how I always make then and here is an awesome glaze that I am going to use on them every time I make them since I can no longer find the cinnamon chips.....

Chai Cake Glaze

2 tbsp/30 mL butter or margarine
1 ½ cups/375 mL powdered sugar
1 tsp/5 mL Vanilla
¼ tsp/1.2 mL Cinnamon
Reserved 2 tbsp/30mL prepared Chai Latte from cake recipe

Melt butter in 1-quart/liter saucepan over medium heat. Stir in remaining ingredients until smooth. Drizzle glaze on cake.
:lick::lick::lick:

Do I really need to use so many tea bags? Could I not just use four and squeeze them a bit?

Use as many as you want. The flavor will be stronger or milder. Your call.

This sounds AmAZing! I am going to try making them tonight. I LOVE chai tea.

mmmMmmmmm sounds yummy! I am going to make these this week. I wish I could find cinnamon chips though.