Chai-tastic!

Happy Saturday, everybody!

I'm currently cleaning, doing laundry, and baking sugar cookies, so this will be brief...but I just had to share this recipe with you for Chai Concentrate (based off the one found here...I had slightly different ingredients and had to tweak it a bit)

Since I was making sugar cookie dough WHILE steeping this, I spaced getting pictures, so you get a sad picture of my half-drunk Soy Chai on a dirty kitchen towel :)

K...so here you go :) enjoy!

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups water
• 10 black tea bags
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger (or 2 TBSP fresh?)
• 7 whole cardamom pods
• 10 whole cloves
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon Vanilla

Instructions

• Bring the water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the tea bags, spices and orange zest. Stir to combine, and remove from heat. Let steep 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove tea bags, and strain out the spices with a fine mesh sieve. Add brown sugar, honey and vanilla. Stir well to combine. Store in a jar in the fridge for up to a week.
• Mix concentrate (I recommend shaking the jar really well first) with milk of your choice (I used vanilla soy milk. It tastes amazing!) in about a half-half ratio and work from there :)

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Thanks for reading and have a lovely weekend! I'll post pictures of the cookies on our Tumblr page later...they should be pretty epic :)