I made some yummy chai tea cookies for a thank-you-baby-shower gift box, which turned out really great. I included some tea, sage incense, cookies, a Kitty Baby Love mini candle, and a thank you card- all snuggled in these awesome wooden cigar boxes Ben and I found at the East Bay Creative Reuse Center.
I got the basic recipe for the cookies from Apartment Therapy and just replaced the Early Grey Tea with Chai Tea:

Chai Tea Cookies
makes 2 dozen

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1 tablespoon Chai Tea leaves*
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon water
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

*One would think that expensive loose leaf tea would be best but tea from cheap bags ripped open are optimal to use; the leaves are more fine and flaky.

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine dry ingredients (use food processor if available to pulverize tea leaves- we don’t have one so I just tossed the tea leaves in and baked- turned out fine!).
2. Add vanilla, water, and butter. Mix until you have dough. (It says to then freeze for 1/2 hour or chill it overnight. I don’t think this step is necessary though…)
3. Pinch and flatten cookie sized balls of dough. I used star-shaped cookie cutter’s to cut pieces out. Place on baking sheets and bake until the edges are just brown, about 12 minutes.If you cut out shapes like I did, you’ll notice that the cookie now looks nothing like your cutout. I recut the cookies while they were fresh hot out of the oven and a little mushy still.
4. Let cookies cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks. Once cooled, the cookies should pop out into their cookie cutter shapes.

   

We used the star shaped cookies for our gift boxes and kept the non-star shaped sides for ourselves!