Iced Lavender Cream Chai {Starbucks Copycat}
This Starbucks copycat Iced Lavender Cream Chai is made with spiced chai, milk, and a dreamy lavender cold foam. It’s surprisingly easy to make at home and perfectly balances warm chai spice with light floral lavender.
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Makes: 1 drink
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Ingredients
- Ice
- 3 oz chai concentrate
- 4 oz 2% milk or dairy/dairy alternative of your choice
- ⅓ cup lavender cream cold foam recipe below
Lavender Cream Cold Foam
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ⅓ cup 2% milk
- 2 tablespoon vanilla syrup (store-bought or homemade)
- 1 tablespoon lavender powder recipe below
Lavender Powder
- ¼ cup culinary-grade lavender
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 ½ teaspoon black currant powder (optional for coloring)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon soy lecithin powder (optional for easier blending in drinks)
Instructions
- Add chai tea concentrate to an ice-filled glass. Pour milk into glass and stir to combine.
- Top drink with lavender cold foam.
Lavender Cold Foam
- Place cream, milk, vanilla syrup, and lavender powder in a mason jar and shake well to combine. If you don't have a jar, mix all ingredients in a bowl. This is your lavender sweet cream. Keep in fridge until ready to use.
- To turn into foam, you can either use an electric frother, hand mixer, or blender with about ⅓ cup mixture at a time. Alternatively, you can shake the mixture vigorously in a mason jar until it's frothy.
Lavender Powder
- Put dried lavender in a spice or coffee grinder and grind flowers into a fine powder. Transfer to small bowl.
- Whisk sugar, black currant powder, salt, and soy lecithin (if using) into ground lavender.
- Transfer mixture back to grinder (you may have to work in batches) and process until entire mixture is a fine powder.
- Store lavender powder in an airtight container at room temperature until ready to use.
Notes
- If you're using lavender syrup instead of powder in the cold foam, I recommend using 1 ½ tablespoon lavender syrup and ½ tablespoon vanilla syrup.
- If you're making your own vanilla syrup, I recommend this recipe.
- This recipe should make enough lavender cold foam for about 3 drinks (store the cold cream in the fridge and whip into cold foam when ready to make a drink).
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