Chocolate Chai Tea Cakes

24-36 tea cakes
50 min

I have a super easy recipe to share with you today. It tastes good and looks beautiful.

My chocolate chai tea cakes are filled with flavor and taste oh so loverly.


This recipe is reminiscent of one of my favorite throwback shows, Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.


Miss Sandra Lee would take simple recipes, like boxed cakes, and tweak them just a bit to make them FABULOUS.


The options for this simple little tea cake are endless, but for the holidays I am going to mix a couple of my favorite flavors, chocolate and chai tea.

To start, grab yourself a spice cake or chocolate cake mix.

I went with a spice cake this time.

Then, brew yourself some STRONG chai tea.


Loose leaf tea is preferred as the flavors are so rich and deep, but any chai tea will do.


Let’s preheat that oven, because this is going to be quick! Follow the directions on the box as the temp and ingredients will vary depending on the type of cake mix you use.

The recipe calls for 1 cup of water, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and 3 eggs. We are going to substitute the water in the recipe with cooled chai tea. YUM! You can use this trick for ANY cake you bake, it adds a bit more flavor to the cake.

Let’s mix it up

Combine your eggs, oil and tea with your cake mix and stir until the lumps are smooth.

Once your batter is nice and smooth, pour it in to your greased cake pan and pop it in the preheated oven to bake.

Once the cake is done baking, remove it from the oven and let it cool. This next part is great to get the kids to help because you get to squish the cake.


It’s like making cake balls, or cake truffles. Have you ever made those? It doesn’t look pretty, but they are so delish. you just need to wait for the big reveal.

Please don’t be judgy with the pics, they are there to show you the process.


Stick with me, I won’t send you down the wrong path…but be kinds about this next group of photos.


Back to our chai ta cakes, it’s almost time to introduce the chocolate. Now that the cake is cooled, you need to break up the cake.

Then crumble it up.


Then grab a can of chocolate frosting.

Frosting, meet cake.

Mix about 2/3rd of the can of chocolate frosting with the broken up cake.


Smush it, or have the kids do it.

Just make sure to wash your hands first!

You want the consistency of play dough.


Now that the cake and frosting mixture is combined, sandwich it between 2 pieces of parchment paper and flatten it to about 1/2 inch thick.

Then we are going to cut out flattened cake and frosting mixture into squares.

The size will depend on what size silicone molds you have.

I love these 2 x 2 square silicone molds from Wilton.

They are perfect little 2 bite sized tea cakes.

You want the pieces to be a bit smaller than the mold, the better for covering in more chocolate.


Melt chocolate melts per the instructions, either a double boiler or in the microwave.


Add a dollop of chocolate in the square mold and then place a square piece of cake and give it a bit of a smush.


You want the chocolate to pop up around the edges, but don’t push it so far down it hits the bottom of the mold.


Once you get a row complete, use an offset spatula and smooth out the chocolate.


You can add a bit more melted chocolate if needed. Keep going until the silicone mold is full of delicious chai tea cake wrapped in little chocolate presents.


Then pop the mold carefully in the freezer to set the chocolate.

How GORGEOUS is this picture?

Ok, so it looks like a hot mess, but stick with me, we are almost at the reveal.

Now carefully flip over the mold and pop out your little chocolate chai tea cakes.

The silicone mold makes it so easy.

Aren’t they are so cute?

I do think they still need a little sparkle.

I used a sharp knife to trim the edges and make them nice and neat. A little embellishment of white chocolate and snowflake sprinkles make them ready for their close up.


Didn’t they turn out loverly? The perfect mix of chocolate and chai tea wrapped up in a pretty little package.

These tea cakes are super easy to make and the flavor options are endless.

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Recipe details
  • 24-36  tea cakes
  • Prep time: 20 Minutes Cook time: 30 Minutes Total time: 50 min
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Ingredients

  • 1 Boxed Cake Mix - spice cake or chocolate cake
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 chai tea bags or teaspoons of loose leaf chai tea
  • 1 container chocolate frosting
  • dark chocolate candy melts
  • white chocolate candy melts
  • sprinkles for decoration
  • silicone candy mold 2 x 2 square

  • chai tea [substitue for water per recipe]

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 can choc frosting
  • Cake topings
Instructions

Brew a strong cup of chai tea. If you use loose leaf tea, use double the amount or use 2 tea bags for a cup of tea [8 oz]
Prepare box mix according to instructions, but replace the water with chai tea
Bake cake per instructions on box
Let cake cool, then crumble baked cake in a large glass bowl
Mix 2/3 of the container of chocolate frosting with crumbled cake to form a dough
Press/roll cake/frosting mix between 2 pieces of parchment paper about 1/2 inch thick
Cut cake into approximately 1.5 x 1.5 inch squares
Melt chocolate or candy melts according to package instructions
Place a TBP of melted chocolate/candy melt in each square of the first short row of the silicone mold.
Top each dollop of melted chocolate/candy melt with square piece of cake and gently press into mold so that chocolate fills in the mold.
Cover cake with a TSP of chocolate/candy melt.
When first row is complete, smooth tops with offset spatula.
Repeat process for remaining rows, working one row at a time.
Place filled mold into the freeser for 5 minutes to set.
Remove from mold and embelish your chocolate chai tea cakes
Tips
  • Engage your kids to work the frosting in to the crubled cake. Most kids will enjoy smushing the cake and frosting together to mix it.
  • When you start assembling the tea cakes in the mold, work with one short row at a time. This helps it so that the chocolate/candy melt does not harden before you top it off.
  • If your candy melts start to harden as you are working, you can remelt unused chocolate/candy melt per the package instructions.
  • Have fun
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Comments
  • Lyn31882919 Lyn31882919 on Sep 11, 2021

    Anyone who enjoys Cake Pops will

    LOVE these! Thank you.

    • Lov29380754 Lov29380754 on Sep 12, 2021

      Thank you. Just like cake pops, the options are endless!

  • Helena Brus Helena Brus on Sep 11, 2021

    Oh yum, two of my favorite flavors. ? pictures were of a square pan but at the beginning the box instructions said 9 x 13. What is the right size of pan because the baking time would be different.

    • Lov29380754 Lov29380754 on Sep 12, 2021

      You would follow the directions on your box for baking time per cake pan size.

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