By Aly Sczebel (Contributor) – Email
Print Edition: February 26, 2014
It’s that time of year — reading break has come and gone, and it’s time to yet again lose yourself in your textbooks. But hey, who’s to say a homemade vanilla chai latte can’t cure the welcome-back-to-bookwork blues? You can easily find all the ingredients you’ll need in your mom’s spice rack.
Makes about 1 ¾ cups of vanilla chai syrup.
1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
2 tsp ground cardamom
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground ginger
Sprinkle of salt
Sprinkle of white pepper (optional)
1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped out
Pour the sweetened condensed milk into a bowl, add spices, stir it together, and pour it into a clean mason jar. Vanilla chai syrup can be stored for up to six months in the fridge — that’s a lot of lattes.
Make yourself a cup of black tea, add two spoons of vanilla chai syrup into your mug, stir, and enjoy!
