Create your favorite vanilla chai latte at home in minutes with our simple recipe using everyday ingredients. Enjoy the cozy blend of black tea, chai spices, brown sugar, and vanilla for the ultimate fall treat.
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Discover the delightful chai latte recipe, an Indian-origin beverage cherished for its warm spice flavors and comforting taste, especially beloved during the autumn season.
This hot chai tea latte is a delightful combination of black tea, masala chai spices, milk, and a hint of vanilla. It's loved for its comforting, warm flavors and the perfect balance of sweetness and spice that make it a cozy and favorite drink for any time of the year.
Compared to the traditional Indian recipe where all the ingredients are simmered in a pot, the vanilla chai latte is made simply by brewing black tea bags (or loose-leaf tea) with a blend of spices and then served in a hot drink with steamed milk or in an iced version like the iced vanilla chai latte.
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Ingredients Notes
You need these ingredients to make Homemade chai tea latte:
- Black tea: Opt for robust black tea varieties like Assam, Ceylon, or Darjeeling to infuse your Chai Latte with rich flavor. Whether you go for tea bags or black tea leaves, it'll affect how your latte tastes.
- Chai spices: For authentic chai flavor, gather ground chai spices which typically include cinnamon (or cinnamon sticks), ginger (or fresh ginger slices), cloves, cardamom, and, optionally, black pepper.
- Sugar: For your preferred level of sweetness, add brown sugar or consider using maple syrup, honey, or any sweetener of your choice.
- Milk: Opt for whole milk or 2% milk or non-dairy milk, unsweetened almond milk, soy milk, or coconut milk, oat milk based on your dietary preferences.
- Vanilla: For a hint of sweetness and delightful vanilla flavor, incorporate pure vanilla extract, a vanilla bean, or vanilla syrup to your preference.
- Water: You'll require hot water to infuse the tea and spices.
How to Make Vanilla Chai Latte Recipe
Here are some quick visual instructions. Don't forget that full recipe instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the recipe card below!
Make a chai tea mixture
- Start by preparing the chai latte concentrate that will be used to make the drink. Place the chai tea bags, brown sugar and spices, cinnamon stick, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, star anise, and vanilla extract in a small saucepan.
- Add the water to brew the tea and place over medium heat to boil for about 5 minutes while stirring to combine occasionally during the cooking time.
- Then pour the mixture into a container and strain through a fine mesh strainer to remove all the seeds and tea bags.
Add warm milk
- Heat the milk in a saucepan or in the microwave. (you can also froth the milk to have even more foam)
- Pour the hot milk into a mug to fill it up to ⅔.
- Fill ⅓ of the mug with the heated chai tea mixture.
- Add the cream mousse previously whipped with a milk frother.
- Sprinkle a pinch of ground cinnamon and enjoy hot.
Tips for this recipe
Variations & Substitutions
Recipe Questions
Yes, black tea has a small amount of caffeine which makes it a perfect morning wake-up drink.
To make the iced chai latte version with this recipe, use instead cold milk and ice cubes and mix with the chai tea concentrate.
By simply using vegetable milk like almond milk, soy milk, or any other dairy milk of your choice. Also, remove the heavy cream from the recipe and you will have a vegan chai latte.
I suggest you make the concentrated tea ahead of time and keep it in the fridge for a week. Then you will just have to add this preparation to your hot or cold milk to make your tea latte.
As in the majority of latte recipes we use whole milk, which is a fatty cow's milk and that's how we get a nice foam. But you can also use the milk you are used to drinking or even substitute it with a vegan drink like almond milk to make tea lattes.
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I hope you love this vanilla chai latte. If you make it, be sure to leave a comment and a rating so I know how you liked it. Happy Baking!
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Vanilla chai latte
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 2 serving
Description
Recipe for homemade vanilla chai latte, black tea chai spices and milk for a creamy ans spicy drink (2 servings).
Ingredients
- 2 black tea bags
- 1 stick Cinnamon - or 1 tsp cinnamon ground
- 1 Star Anise - Badian
- 10 Cardamom pods or ½ teaspoon ground
- 10 Cloves - or ½ teaspoon ground
- 1 pinch Nutmeg ground
- 1 Ginger slice - or 1 pinch ground
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 100 ml (⅓ cup) Water
- 400 ml (1 ⅓ cup) Milk or plant-based milk
Instructions
Making the chai tea concentrate
- In a small saucepan place all the ingredients, the 2 black tea bags, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, star anise and liquid vanilla.
- Add the water to the pan and heat the pan over medium heat for about 5 minutes while stirring occasionally.
- Strain the mixture through a sieve to remove all the spice bits and tea bags.
- Pour the chai tea concentrate into a container with a lid and store in the fridge.
Making the chai tea latte
- Heat the milk in the microwave or in a saucepan.
- Pour the hot milk into a mug and pour about 50 ml of chai concentrate into the milk.
- Place the heavy cream with the powdered sugar in a small bowl and froth with a milk frother.
- Pour the foam into the mug and sprinkle with a little ground cinnamon and enjoy hot.
Notes
Conservation : 5 days in the refrigerator in a glass bottle
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: drinks, latte, beverage
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Calories: 179
- Sugar: 11
- Sodium: 94
- Fat: 8
- Saturated Fat: 4
- Carbohydrates: 20
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 8
- Cholesterol: 20
Woah, first homemade chai latte this morning! Thanks for the recipe, it was a pure delight! I felt like I was at Starbucks!
Thanks for the feedback ❤️ It's delicious and homemade too
Great recipe, with almond milk it's really top notch thanks