Contributed by Rachel & Brendan

You can adjust the sugar to suit your taste. Also, Rachel makes her own ground cardamom with seeds from 8 cardamom pods, ground in a coffee grinder.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup dry milk powder
• 1 1/2 cups powdered non-dairy creamer
• 1/2 cup French vanilla powdered creamer
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups Nestea unsweetened instant tea
• 2 heaping tsp ground ginger
• 2 heaping tsp cinnamon
• 1 heaping tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp powdered cardamom
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 heaping tsp allspice
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp ground star anise

After mixing all ingredients, whisk together & run through a food processor until you have achieved a fine powder. Store in an air-tight container. Use 3 Tbsp of powder to 8 oz of boiling water or milk (or a combination of water and milk). After dissolving you can chill it if you would like an iced chai tea.

**You can modify the spice mix to suit your tastes. If you don’t like star anise, don’t add as much! Prefer cinnamon? Add extra! You get the idea…