Fancy Some Tea?

Last year, my boyfriend introduced me to chai lattes. Since then, chai and I have a very good relationship. When looking in my favorite cupcake recipe book, Primrose Bakery, I read the Earl Grey recipe. There was a blurb about substituting your favorite tea instead of Earl Grey...now you know what that meant- Chai cupcakes with a chai buttercream. I only had five chai tea bags left so I used four for the cake recipe and only one for the buttercream. I was very proud of myself after tasting the frosting. I made it completely on my own, just throwing stuff into the good old kitchen aid mixer. Even now I couldn't tell you exact measurements. I didn't think the one tea bag infusing the milk I had set aside would be enough flavor for the butercream so I also added the spices I found laying around that make up chai: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, ginger. The only thing I didn't have was cardamom, but it still tasted wonderful. A nice lightly sweet cupcake. Take a look!