How to Make Her Chai Sugar Holiday Cookies
Fall is here and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is coming soon. What better way to celebrate the season than with Taylor Swift’s Chai Cookie recipe?
The “New Romantics” singer debuted her viral cookies on Instagram when she was recording 1989 Secret Sessions. A fan on Tumblr demanded the recipe, and Taylor effortlessly reblogged the recipe filled with puns and delight. With a simple “MMMMKAY,” she gave us the most iconic fall cookie to date. Chai and cookies combined? Absolute bliss.
The Grammy Award-winning musician went in with the details for this chai cookie recipe. There’s one way to do it which takes no effort. “The quick and easy way is to make sugar cookies from a sugar cookie mix and just cut open a packet of chai tea and pour it into the batter as you make it. Cause you’re busy and you want making cookies to be a chill part of your day. Pow. Done.” she wrote.
Though she swears by the homemade recipe. “This is a recipe for basic insanely good sugar cookies. I added the chai element to the recipe because I thought it would infuse cozy holiday vibez into the cookie and it really did.” She cited a recipe for Joy The Baker, but we condensed down the Chai cookie recipe to be as easy as ever.
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1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift

Here’s Taylor Swift’s Chai Cookie Recipe.
Taylor Swift Chai Cookie Ingredients

If you’ve made sugar cookies before, everything seems pretty standard, but with an excellent twist. Here are the Taylor Swift Chai Cookie Ingredients:
- 1/2 Cup of unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1/2 Cup of vegetable oil
- 1/2 Cup of sugar (+ more for topping)
- 1/2 Cup of powdered sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
- 2 Cups of flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 chai tea bag
For the Taylor Swift Chai Cookie icing, here are the ingredients:
- 1 Cup of powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon of nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons of milk or eggnog
- Optional: Food Coloring to make it festive!
Taylor Swift Chai Cookie Recipe

Here’s Taylor Swift’s Chai Cookie Recipe as listed by TSwift herself!
- Pre-heat oven at 350° and grease baking sheet
- Beat butter and add vegetable oil
- Add sugar, powdered sugar, egg and vanilla
- Stir in flour, baking soda, salt, and chai tea
- Chill the soft dough for about 1 hour
- Line cookie sheet with 2 tablespoon dough drops
- Press evenly and cover with sugar
- Bake for nine-ish minutes in the oven
- Cover with icing when cool completely
- Mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 1/4 T-spoon of nutmeg, 1/4 Teaspoon of cinnamon and 3 tablespoons of milk or eggnog if you can find it this time of year.
- You can add more milk or eggnog to the icing but it will become more like a glaze. But in the words of Taylor, “glazes are legit too so basically just LIVE YOUR LIFE.”
For the icing:
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