Chai Tea Latte
Published 9/11/2021 โข Updated 10/4/2023
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If you’ve been craving a chai tea latte we’re here to share a simple recipe you can make in your own kitchen. All you need is almond milk, chai tea bags, chai spice, and a little maple syrup.
There is truly nothing better than a warm and spicy chai tea latte on a cool fall day. We’ve been ordering them at local coffee shops with almond milk or oat milk and they are just so yummy.
Chai tea lattes are traditionally made with black tea, but we tested this recipe with both black tea and chai tea bags and you can use either. The quick instructions: Simply whisk together almond milk, maple syrup, and chai spices in a small pot. Add the tea bags and bring to a boil. Let seep for around 3 minutes.
Chai Tea Latte Ingredients
- Milk– you can use whatever milk you would like. We prefer non-dairy milks such as oat milk for a hot latte and almond milk for an iced latte. Soy milk would work, too!
- Black or Chai Tea Bags- you’re more than welcome to use a plain black tea bag becuase a lot of the flavor comes from the chai spice mix. However, you can also use a pre-made chai tea. Chai tea brands vary in flavor, spice, and sweetness. Make sure you find a chai tea bag that aligns with your pallet.
- Chai Spice– Our recipe calls for a chai spice blend and this is to add even more delicious warmth to your chai tea latte recipe.
- Maple Syrup– a little sweetness balances out the spice of the chai in this recipe. We love to use maple syrup or honey as a sweetener for this recipe.
- Espresso: espresso is optional, but when we order a chai tea latte at a coffee shop we like to make it dirty with a shot of espresso.
Chai Tea Latte Variations
Switch up the milk: we love oat milk or almond milk lattes, but you can use whatever kind of milk you wish.
Switch up the tea: instead of a chai tea bag, feel free to use black or even an herbal tea bag.
Add another flavor: if you’re a flavor-shot kind of person, feel free to add more sweetness with vanilla or even caramel.
Make it iced: we love a god iced chai tea latte. Simply let the pot cool for 10-15 minutes and pour it over ice.
Homemade
Chai Spices
Our homemade chai spice blend is a wonderful combination of cardamom, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.
Chai Tea Latte FAQ
Chai tea has a base of black tea with a mixture of warm ayurvedic spices.
Typically, chai spices consist of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and sometimes even black pepper. Check out our DIY Chai Spice recipe for details.
black tea! You can also make your chai tea latte with decaffeinated black tea!
Everything in moderation! Chai tea lattes have some great health benefits!
After you stir all your ingredients together you can use an immersion blender or a milk frother to froth your milk before adding it to your chai latte. We suggest frothing your milk in a tall jar or glass of some kind.
Chai Tea Latte Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cup unsweetened almond milk, any kind of milk works
- 2 black tea bags, chai tea also works
- 2 teaspoons homemade chai spice
- 1- 2 tablespoons maple syrup, to taste
- optional: 2 shots espresso, to make it dirty
Instructions
- Place almond milk, tea bags, maple syrup, and chai spices into a small sauce pan and whisk.
- Next, bring to a boil over medium/high heat and immediately remove from heat.
- Let the tea seep for at least 3 minutes or longer if you would like it stronger.
- Remove tea bags and pour the whole mixture through a fine sieve into a mug (if you don’t have a sieve just be sure to not pour the sediment at the bottom of the pot into the mug).
- If drinking hot, serve immediately. If you’d like an iced chai tea latte, let the mixture cool for around 10 minutes. Then, pour it over a large glass of ice.
Tips & Notes
- Recipe method was updated on October 19th, 2020.
- We tested this recipe with both black tea and chai tea. Both were wonderful. The chai tea definitely had a more intense flavor.
- Iced instructions: Looking to drink an iced chai tea latte? Simply let the mixture cool for around 10-15 minutes. Then, serve it over ice. It’s as easy as that!
- If your homemade chai tea latte recipe is gritty, it’s probably because the chai spices settled at the bottom of your cup. This is why we used a fine sieve to remove the sediment so that there is no grittiness.
- Feel free to use any kind of milk for this recipe.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Basically this is the basic chai recipe – only difference is the almond milk. Also chai means Tea- so ur basically saying tea tea latte
OMG!!!!!!!! The question was to venture out in a rainstorm to get a pumpkin latte or try this recipe. Guess I’ll NEVER have to leave my house again!
LOL. Glad you love it!
This might be controversial to say, but forget pumpkin spice lattes. This is the best fall beverage. Itโs so good. I made it with oat milk and the chai spice mix from your website. Delicious!!
I made the chai spice mix for this recipe. Using almond milk as suggested created a weird smoothy-like consistency, as well as having the spices suspended in the liquid. I was careful not to boil the almond milk with tea bags because I was concerned about clumping. I didn’t see the suggestion to further heat the mixture to better dissolve the spices, but I am not sure that the cardamom will dissolve (it is definitely more coarse than the other ground spices). I will try it with milk next time and hope that the consistency is more like chai tea in India.
Thanks so much for your feedback, Lauren! We’re going to be retesting this recipe next week! STAY TUNED.
This recipe is delicious. I have a question about sediment though. I used your mix of spices and thereโs just so much sediment at the bottom, I tried using a coffee filter with the spices but the flavor just wasnโt there. Is there something Iโm doing wrong?
What you can do is put it back on the heat and let it simmer for 5 minutes. That should dissolve the spices!
Lovely warming, spicy mid-afternoon pick-up. Used the chai recipe spice blend also on FFF!!
I tried this today it was lovely, I drink chai lattes all the time and I was looking for something healthier, in this recipe the spices are much less overpowered by the sugar and it’s really delicious ๐
So glad you enjoyed this latte, Andrea!
This was delicious! I was looking for something that wasnโt too sweet but โcomfort foodโ as well. I used chia tea bags instead of the chia mix. Thank you for this recipe!
I currently get free coffee and hot chocolate at the chocolate shop I work at! It’s AMAZING. It’s wonderful making almond milk lattes and sugar free cappuccinos all day long. Every now and then, I create some Aztec or chai almond milk hot chocolate mugs and have a BALL. Now I need to make a chai latte someday–I love the flavor and it would be an amazing combination!