Chai Tea Spice Cake

Quick, easy chai tea spice cake recipe with cream cheese frosting, caramel sauce, pistachios. Simple ingredients make a soft, moist Fall/Thanksgiving cake.

in my opinion, cream cheese frosting pairs perfectly because it’s candy and barely tangy, which compliments the spices of the cake. but, some other alternatives could be maple frosting or American Buttercream Frosting or White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting or Marshmallow Frosting or Seven Minute Frosting.

INGREDIENTS

Cake

1 cup Milk Warm
8 Tea bags Vanilla spiced chai tea flavor
1 cup Butter Unsalted
1 1/2 cups Granulated sugar
4 Eggs Large
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1/4 tsp Ginger Finely grated
2 cups All-purpose flour
2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder
1/4 tsp Cloves powder

Frosting, Filling and Decoration

2 cups Cream cheese frosting
1 cup Spiced caramel sauce
1/2 cup Pistachios

DIRECTIONS

Pour warm milk in a deep bowl and upload all of the tea luggage. allow them to sit for approximately 10 minutes. Then, squeeze out all of the milk from the tea bags and discard them. maintain this chai milk apart for now and flow directly to the next step.
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together till light and fluffy.
upload eggs, one by one, even as continuing to combine.
add vanilla extract and floor ginger and mix once more.
In some other bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and all of the spices.
unload this dry combination into the moist mixture. mix the entirety collectively even as including the chai milk till simply combined. The batter may be thick and there might be some lumps however don't over mix!
Pour this batter into 8x2 greased/floured spherical cake pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for about forty mins or till an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
permit the cakes to calm down completely.
Then, trim the edges and tops of every cake with a pointy knife.
vicinity one cake on a cake stand and frost the pinnacle with frosting. I used a piping bag with Tip
unfold a few chopped pistachios and drizzle a few caramel sauce.
Then, place the alternative cake on pinnacle of this frosting layer.
Pour some caramel sauce round the rims of the cake handiest.
eventually, frost the top of this cake with frosting and toss some extra pistachios. Slice and enjoy