This easy Chai Spice Mix recipe can be used in lattes, baked goods, desserts, overnight oats, and more. Customize it to your liking.

Spoonful of Chai Spice Mix with cinnamon sticks and cloves.

This homemade Chai Spice Mix is the perfect addition to a latte or other warm drink. It can be added to oatmeal, baked goods, or your favorite dessert.

It's made in minutes with only six ingredients and can be customized to your liking.

It makes a great gift for the holidays. Pour it into a pretty mason jar, add a label and a bow, and you're all set.

I like to keep it on hand to add to my morning smoothie or homemade kombucha.

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🧾 Ingredients
🔪 Instructions
Does This Recipe Contain Caffeine?
How To Use Chai Spice
💭 Tips
How To Grind Spices
📖 Variations / Additions
🥡 Storage
Chai Recipes
📋 Recipe
💬 Comments

🧾 Ingredients

This is an overview of the ingredients. To see the full list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Cinnamon
Cardamom
Ground ginger
Allspice
Black pepper
Ground cloves

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🔪 Instructions

Mix cinnamon, cardamom, ground ginger, allspice, black pepper, and cloves.
Pour chai blend into an airtight container.

Does This Recipe Contain Caffeine?

This chai spice blend does not contain caffeine. Chai spice can be added to black tea, which does have caffeine.

Chai Spice Mix in bottle with spoonful of chai mix.

How To Use Chai Spice

Any dessert with apple, pumpkin, chocolate, vanilla, or nuts
In place of pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice
Oatmeal or overnight oats
Banana bread
Cakes
Cookies
Pancakes
French toast or waffles
Smoothie
Kombucha
Dirty chai latte or chai tea latte
Black tea
Hot cocoa

💭 Tips

Start with less than the amount shown and taste as you go. You can always add more, but you cannot take it away.
Grind whole spices when possible. They are fresher and have a stronger flavor.
If you do not have time to grind your own spices, make sure to use the freshest spices possible.
Store in an airtight mason jar in a cool dark place.

How To Grind Spices

First you'll need to toast whole spices. Toast each one separately. They toast at different rates, so this will insure that they don't burn.
Place one of the spices in a dry cast iron skillet (or frying pan if you don't have cast iron) on medium-low heat.
Give the pan a shake. When you start to smell it, it is done.
Let it cool.
Grind each spice with a spice grinder, a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder.

📖 Variations / Additions

Nutmeg
Star anise
Coriander
Vanilla bean
Fennel seeds
Mace

🥡 Storage

Ground spices can last up to 2-3 years, but are freshest within the first 10 months. Store this spice mixture in an airtight mason jar in a cool dark place.