Description
A warm, comforting cup that smells like a bakery at dawn and tastes like the coziest memory you can hold in a mug.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups Water
- 2 cups Milk (dairy or plant-based)
- 4 Cinnamon sticks (or 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon)
- 4 Vanilla beans, split and scraped (or 4 teaspoons vanilla extract)
- 2 Star anises (optional)
- 4 tsp Loose-leaf black tea or 4 black tea bags (optional)
- Honey or sweetener of choice, to taste
Instructions
- In a small pot, bring 2 cups of water to a gentle boil.
- Add cinnamon sticks and vanilla beans to the pot. If using ground cinnamon and vanilla extract, add them later.
- Turn off the heat, cover the pot and let it steep for about 10 minutes.
- If using black tea, add it and steep for an additional 3-5 minutes.
- Heat 2 cups of milk in a separate pot over medium-low until steaming, but do not boil.
- If using ground cinnamon and vanilla extract, stir them into the warm milk now.
- Strain the infusion through a fine-mesh strainer into the warm milk.
- Sweeten to taste with honey or your preferred sweetener and stir gently.
- Serve hot, or chill and serve over ice.
Notes
To lower caloric content, use skim or plant-based milks. For stronger spices, add crushed cardamom pods or ginger.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: Beverage
- Method: Steeping
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 75
- Sugar: 0g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 4g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 5.7g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 10mg