1 of 100: Chai Crescents

First up, and it's already gone 19.

Oooh, Chai Crescents. With butter icing. These sound good. These I've meant to make for a while. These call for....finely ground tea? A little odd, and I can only imagine a little bitter. And the butter frosting icing appears to be a pretty standard buttercream and that seems a little odd too. But we won't know until we bake!

So let the baking begin!

After, of course, I carefully lay out each and every little thing I will need.
Every mis en it's place!

Anything that begins without creaming the butter and sugar makes me a little nervous. So these are making me quite nervous. Why is this dough so dry? So crumbly. Why doth thou look suspiciously like a pie crust?  However, chai tea crust on a pumpkin pie would be delicious.  I should make this happen.

Until I can make that pie happen, I will have to make these crescents happen. So wrapped and squished into almost holding together dough and popped in the fridge. Good luck weird little yummy smelling dough.

Two chilly hours later.... this dough does not roll. It crumbles. It falls apart. It is in need of a good spritzing and disaster is averted. Also, I do not have a crescent cookie cutter. I do, however, have many sizes of biscuit cutters.

Ingenious.

 

 

Eight minutes per pan, cooling time and some fairly average buttercream later.... these are actually quite good. They have a surprising browned butter taste, not particularly chai-tastic, but decidedly spiced and not gingerbread. So, I suppose, a success. Anyhow, Mr. S loves them.