Do you love chai flavored recipes? Learn how to mix up your own chai spices to create the tastiest chai tea lattes, apple chai oatmeal cups, or chocolate chai overnight oats! Add these chai spices to your cabinet for easy access to chai spices all year round. You can add this mix to an iced drink, smoothie, overnight oats, or your favorite sweet snack for a chai spice twist!
Bring on all of the chai flavored recipes this fall! Whether you are a spicy chai tea person, a sweet chai person, or a dirty chai tea latte kind of human, this chai spice mix is delicious and totally customizable. First things first..
What are the Chai spices?
This chai spice mix is on the spicier side. We like our chai with a bite rather than a sweet spice mix so we added a little extra ground ginger. If you love yourself a sweet chai, try taking out some ginger and adding more cinnamon or even a teaspoon of coconut sugar or brown sugar. Have no shame either way. The taste buds want, what the taste buds want. DO YOU FEEL ME?
We love mixing up our own chai spices so that we have chai spice ready in the pantry whenever we’re craving a chai tea latte or one of our favorite Fit Foodie Finds chai recipes. Yes, we have a bunch! Check them out.
Fit Foodie Finds Recipes with Chai Spices
- Meal Prep Apple Chai Oatmeal Cups
- Apple Chai Energy Balls
- Vegan Chocolate Chai Overnight Oats
- Vegan Chai Hot Chocolate
- Chai Apple Chips
- Dirty Chai Almond Milk
Yes, chai spices are totally a fall and winter thing. BUT, chai spices are totally acceptable in the spring and summer months, too! I love me a yummy iced chai or chai protein smoothie during the summer. Now, mix yourself up a batch of these chai spices!
DIY Chai Spice Mix
Make your own DIY chai spice with spices you already have in your cabinet. Add to an iced drink, smoothie, overnight oats, or your favorite sweet snack for a chai spice twist!
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 2 teaspoons ground allspice
- 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 6 teaspoons ground ginger
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together. Store in a small spice container.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/16 Calories: 3 Sugar: 0 Sodium: 0 Fat: 0 Carbohydrates: 0 Fiber: 0 Protein: 0Keywords: chai, chai spices, chai tea latte
I love this recipe! This is my second batch and I use it every morning in my coffee. I also used it to make Chai shortbread cookies this past Christmas and they were a hit! It’s now my go too!
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How much per cup or glass?
Be careful with nutmeg! This recipe may have a bit too much – if someone were to go wild, make something using the whole recipe, and eat the whole thing, they could get nutmeg poisoning. I made eggnog with a whole nutmug (~5g – approx 2 tsp, same amount as in the recipe) that my wife and I split and she woke up in the middle of the night with tachycardia, irregular heartbeat, and an impending sense of doom (she was sure she was going to die), all of which are symptoms. Now, 2.5 grams shouldn’t have done that (it should take the full 5 at least) but you never know if you’ll be extra sensitive to it, plus she had been cooking with nutmeg quite a bit that week and it seems like it can build up in your system. I was unaffected but she felt terrible for a week. It could have been worse – you can require hospitalization or even die.
Hi! The serving size is 1/16 of this recipe, which is only 1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg.
It was okay; but why add allspice instead of just more cinnamon, nutmeg and clove? Seems redundant since that’s all allspice is. It’s also missing the black pepper.
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Hi Bree,
Allspice is actually a spice all it’s own. It looks like black pepper as it’s whole form. It’s a common misconception, one I also thought until I happened across it. It adds more dimension to the chai mix.
I was trying to recreate a chai ice cream we had for an anniversary dinner and this was a perfect match!
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Glad it worked out for you!
This was just perfect! I omitted the tea bags cuz I’m doing a caffeine free month and just love this spice blend. Just what I was looking for. Thank you. <3
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I would say less cardamom in the recipe as that’s all I could taste in the blend.
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Really lovely and warming – I would use less ginger next time, but it’s all down to personal taste!! I used whole cow’s milk instead and it was lovely and creamy!
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Delish!!
Thanks this was perfect and just what I needed today!
Looking to make my own Chai Latte Powder as in South Africa we are struggling to find the original powder.
Thanks. Love it.
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How doi make chai tea from this spice mix?
Here’s our chai tea latte recipe — https://fitfoodiefinds.com/allergy-friendly-chai-tea-latte/
This spice blend is so good! I use it in a ton of baked goods.
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Hi Lee,
love your idea for grounding the spices. I know about the these spices and I love a strong tasty
Chai any time of the day but it’s so difficult to boil all the spices together for a while and wait to
enjoy a cup of chai but with your idea, I can have it anytime and with the almond milk version looking forward to making that. So thank you very much! Love #fitfoodiefinds!!
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How much per cup of tea? Does it leave a sediment or should it be filtered?
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This will be my second time making this. I love putting a dash in my coffee every morning. At some point, I’d love to make a cake and add this to it. Really great recipe, I love it.
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Well, it smells delicious! Novice at the whole Chai thing. How much of the mix do I add to what type of liquid? Milk, water, coconut milk?
Here’s our recipe for chai tea latte >> https://fitfoodiefinds.com/allergy-friendly-chai-tea-latte/
Thank you! Yes delicious and American we are a melting pot! These spices have health benefits and so yummy!
I made the mix, now how do I actually use it?
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You can use it in baked goods, in hot chocolate, in oatmeal, etc!
Delicious! I think that I had been missing the ginger previously. I make a drink from milk, honey and this spice! Thank you!
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Hilarious or perhaps sad that you consider this to be “American” cuisine.
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