This easy mixture makes for a slightly concentrated chai tea recipe can be served hot or cold. The bold warming and cozy spices of chai tea are amplified with pinches of ground ginger, clove, and cinnamon for an extra layer of warm spiced flavor.

Serve this easy tea drink as a hot chai tea, or pour over ice and sip as a cold and creamy iced chai tea. Simply finish it off with your favorite sweetener and milk over the top and enjoy. This simple spiced tea drink is perfect for those crisp cool weather days when you crave a Starbucks chai tea or a chai tea latte. It has all the exact same flavors with that cozy spicy finish.

Ingredients To Make Easy Chai Tea Concentrate:

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• 2 Pouches Chai Tea
• 1 1/2 cups Water
• 1/8 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1/8 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp Ground Allspice
• 4 whole Cloves
• 2 to 3 tbsp Your Favorite Creamy Milk or Half & Half  (or more as desired to taste) for splashing in whether serving cold or hot
• Your favorite loose powder sugar sweetener (such as white sugar, stevia, Splenda, monkfruit sweetener, etc.) for stirring in if serving hot.
• 1 to 2 tbsp Simple Syrup (or more as desired to taste) for stirring in if serving cold over ice.
• Whipped Cream (optional for topping off an iced chai tea)
• 1 Cinnamon Stick (optional for stirring and serving hot or cold).

How To Make This Easy Chai Tea Recipe:

In a small saucepan, bring 1 1/2 cups of water to a simmer.

Once simmering, cut the paper tabs off of two pouches of chai tea. Drop them into the already simmering saucepan of water.  I’m using 2 tea bags of Twinnings Chai Tea.  

Once the chai tea bags are in, I would recommend not walking away as they’ll only steep for a short time, and if left unattended, will turn the mixture bitter due to the presence of the black tea.

Let the tea bags cook in the low simmering (not boiling) water for one and a half to 2 minutes.  

Keep a light simmer, Don’t boil…

Adjust the heat as needed to maintain a light simmer.  Boiling the tea pouches harshly will bring out too much bitter flavor from the black tea, so take care to maintain the heat level for a continuous light simmer. 

When the simmer time is up, immediately remove Chai tea bags from the water.  Do not leave the tea bags in longer because the black tea will now begin to add a bitterness that we don’t want to extract.  We just want to extract some of the black tea flavor and the warm spice flavor profile.  

To remove tea bags, use tongs to squeeze the bags gently of any excess water and discard from the simmering water.

Add a few extra warming spices to the chai tea recipe mixture

Bring the heat down to low while you add in some extra spices to deepen the chai tea flavor. 

With heat on low, add in 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice, 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 4 whole cloves.  

Simmer to deepen the flavors and the spices…

Bring the water back up to a simmer and continue simmering the chai tea and spices mixture for another 3 to 4 minutes to deepen the flavors.  The color of the liquid should be a deep and dark amber brown color now.

Strain and serve chai tea hot or cold

Pour the concentrated spiced chai tea through a fine mesh strainer to remove the whole cloves and any excess sediment from the spices. Strain it into a mason jar with a screw top lid.  You can now use this unsweetened concentrated chai tea recipe to make iced chai tea or hot chai tea.

Serve This cozy spiced Chai Tea as Hot Tea:

If serving right away, pour the desired amount (while nice and hot) into your favorite mug or tea cup.  Top off the hot chai tea with a tablespoon (or more to taste) of your choice:

• powdered coffee creamer
• half & half
• whole milk or whole ultrafiltered milk such as Fairlife
• or your favorite creamy milk such as vanilla soy milk
• oat milk
• almond milk, cashew milk, or hazelnut milk 

Sweeten spiced hot chai tea to taste with:

• simple syrup
• brown sugar
• white sugar
• your favorite plant-based sugar such as stevia
• or a low-calorie keto friendly sweetener such as monk fruit sweetener. 
• You can also use this easy homemade vanilla syrup to sweeten your chai tea drink. It’s what I use to sweeten this simple vanilla iced coffee.

Stir together with a cinnamon stick and enjoy while hot. 

To Make An Easy Iced Chai Tea:

Chill the strained chai tea and spices mixture in a mason jar with a screw top lid.  Let cool completely or leave in the fridge overnight.

Add A Creamer:

Add ice to a tall glass and pour in the desired amount of brewed chai tea.  Top off with a creamy milk such as a:

• splash of half & half
• whole milk
• your favorite creamy milk such as vanilla soy milk
• oat milk
• almond milk
• I’m using Fairlife whole ultra-filtered milk.  

Add A Sweetener To Your Iced Chai Tea:

To sweeten the cold iced chai tea, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of simple syrup (or sweeten to taste). Alternatively, you can sweeten with your favorite low calorie sweetener such as Splenda, stevia, or monkfruit sweetener.  A vanilla syrup such as Torani vanilla syrup can also be used to sweeten this easy iced chai tea mixture.

Alternatively, you might choose a sweetened creamer such as vanilla coffee creamer for your iced chai tea.  This will add cream and sweetness at the same time.

Be decadent and finish with a twirl of whipped cream on top plus another light dusting of cinnamon.

Enjoy the Flavors of Cozy Chai Tea in the Fall and all through winter…

Enjoy this quick and easy homemade chai tea recipe with concentrated flavors that will stand up to cream and sweetener with bold color and warm spice flavor.  

This is a great way to enjoy all the deep, warm, spicy flavors of a chai tea with less sugar since we are starting off with our own concentrated sugar free chai tea. You’ll be better able to control the sugar and calories by adding your own sweetener and creamy milk as desired.

Use Frothy Milk to make a Chai Tea Latte:

If you want to use this brewed chai tea and spices mixture in a hot chai tea latte, all you have to do is add frothy whipped milk to the chai tea while the tea is hot.

You can use a milk frother to whip a bit of warm milk and create frothy foamy milk. Top the hot chai tea with the foamy milk and stir in your favorite sweetener and sweeten to taste. Dust with a bit of cinnamon and enjoy hot as a latte. It’s quite good with frothy vanilla soy milk as well.

This easy chai tea mixture is best enjoyed in the fall and winter when we crave the cozy spices of cinnamon, ginger, clove, and allspice.  

Enjoy this simple chai tea recipe throughout the cold season.  Whether you sip it fireside nice and hot or serve it up sweet and cold with creamy twirls of whipped cream on top, it’s sure to satisfy your taste for warm cozy spice. 

Makes about 1 cup of concentrated chai tea (for drinking as hot chai tea with creamer and sweetener or using in an iced chai tea drink

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