You’ll love these buttery Chai Spiced Blondies made from scratch. Made with butter and brown sugar and a handful of spices like cinnamon and ginger, these cookie bars are packed full of flavour.
If you love drinking chai lattes, these Chai Spiced Blondies are for you!
Buttery blondies filled to the brim with gorgeous spices, like cinnamon, ginger, cloves and cardamom. They taste exactly like a chai latte but in cookie form.
The mix of warm spices AND their soft and chewy texture means these Chai Spiced Blondies need to be next on your baking list.
Chai lattes are my drink of choice. There’s just something about the sweet combination of warm milk and aromatic spices. But what’s even better than good chai latte? A good chai latte BLONDIE. 💕
Beautiful Chai Spiced Blondies that have a deliciously soft texture with a mix of spices infused into the bars themselves.
These Chai Spiced Blondies boast almost a soft caramel flavour, thanks to the creaming of the brown sugar, and taste like a soft and buttery cookie.
A beautiful mix of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and cloves mean not only do they taste lovely, but they smell absolutely incredible.
Do you like gingerbread? Tasting a little bit like gingerbread, these blondies remind me of Christmas. And Christmas treats in April? I’m ok with that 👌🏻
Most blondie recipes call for melted butter, like my White Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies. Using melted butter makes a very moist blondie, but these blondies use the creaming method, beating the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy, making them more reminiscent of a cookie.
That means these Chai Spiced Blondies have a similar texture to a cookie bar and go perfectly with a cup of tea, coffee or a chai latte. Just know that it’s almost impossible to stop at just one.
HOW TO MAKE CHAI SPICED BLONDIES FROM SCRATCH
- Start with room temperature butter – this will make it easier to combine the butter and sugar together. Use an electric mixer to beat together the butter and brown sugar until pale and creamy. Then add a couple of teaspoons of vanilla and an egg for moisture.
- Next comes the flour and a handful of spices, including cinnamon, ginger, cloves and cardamom. Beat again briefly until a soft cookie dough forms. Transfer mixture to a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Bake the blondies until golden on the edges, and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. I prefer to slightly under bake my blondies so the cookies are soft and chewy in the middle.
- Once cooled, cut the blondies into squares and serve with a cup of tea or a cold glass of milk. If you’re like me, you’ll especially love the chewy edges.
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Chai Spiced Blondies
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: Serves 12
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Description
Homemade Chai Blondies filled with warm spices.
Ingredients
Blondie bars
- 170 grams (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 180 grams (1 cup) brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 210 grams (1 and 1/2 cup) plain flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced. Grease and line an 8-inch square baking tray with baking or parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar using an electric beater until combined – be generous as this will help develop that lovely buttery caramel flavour, approximately 2-3 minutes.
- Add your vanilla and egg and mix again until combined. Add flour, along with all the spices and beat briefly until a soft cookie dough forms.
- Transfer mixture to your prepared baking tin, spreading out to make one even layer. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave in tin to cool completely.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bar
- Calories: 231
Keywords: Bars, Blondies, Chai, Cinnamon
This recipe was first published on Sweetest Menu in April 2016.
Very nice and something different, thank you as always!!
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Aw so glad you enjoyed them Chrissy! ☺️
Making mine now with coconut sugar instead of brown, browned butter and in a couple small round pans since that is all I have on hand. I’m using a chai spice blend instead of the afore mentioned spices…a little nervous that there is no baking soda or powder in the recipe.
They came out nicely sweet although almost cookie like in texture, next time I would probably make them at least 3/4 inches high. The chai flavor is like a nice sweet pungent aftertaste , not too assistive. I do believe the chocolate chips saved the day.
Hi Kat! Thanks for the feedback! These blondies are definitely cookie-like in texture. Glad you enjoyed them ☺️
I love Chai! These blondies sound amazing!
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Thanks Natalie!!
These were great!
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What you use dark or lite brown sugar?
Hi Abry, I would recommend light brown sugar. We only have one type of brown sugar in Australia but I believe it is most similar to light brown sugar.
Love spices, and this chai inspired blondies look so delicious!!!
I love how you always incorporate all my favorite flavors in decadent treats. I’ve never seen a chai blondie before so I am going crazy for these! So genius and looks incredible!
You know I cannot turn down CHAI anything! These blondies are certainly no exception! I love this idea!!
Me either! Thanks Lynn! 🙂
These look delicious Jess! I actually love blondies just as much, if not more, than I like brownies. And chai spiced? PERFECT!
Aww thanks Mary Ann!
You know I can’t say no to anything with the word chai in the title! And I love gingerbread so these blondies sound like they are perfect Amy bait 🙂 I can’t wait to make these – do I have to share with Chris?
You do not have to share Amy, I won’t tell anyone! 😉
I could drink chai lattes all day too, so these sound wonderful. And I really like gingerbread too so the flavor sounds amazing!
Thanks Amanda! 🙂
I will take coffee over tea any day but I love the warm combination of spices in these blondies! SO perfectly chewy!
Thanks Ashley! 🙂
Oh wow, these look delicious Jess! I’m the same as you – coffee just isn’t really my thing, and I’d much prefer a chai latte if I’m after something creamy and sweet to drink when I’m out. The centres of these blondies look like they have the perfect crumb, and those little swirls of cinnamon icing look like they would seriously just melt in your mouth!
Thanks Lisa! Chai lattes are just lovely aren’t they! 🙂
Blondies can definitely be bland but they have to be cooked perfectly and packed with lots of brown sugar flavor in order to work. But that’s rare cause they can definitely turn out to be flavorless hard bricks! I like that you put in so much more flavor into them. I’m getting a little bored of the generic sweet recipes where its just vanilla and lots of sugar. We deserve to have more flavor! Love that you added cardamon to them!
I love lots of flavour too Linda! I’ve been really into my spices lately!
How brilliant!!! I love anything chai flavoured (I’m drinking a chai tea while writing this). I can’t wait to give these a go! xx
Thanks Lucy! Chai is so delicious! 🙂
Oh my gosh, I am ALL OVER these! My favorite kind of tea is called "Bengal Spice," and it is full of chai spices. I think I might make these right now. Why do you do this to me?
Oh that tea sounds lovely! I hope you enjoy them Melissa! 🙂
I LOVE a good chai latte, and these blondies are the perfect rendition of one in bar form! These look so delish 😀
Me too Rachel! 🙂
I love all of these spices and that cinnamon frosting!
Thanks Joanne!