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Maple Almond Golden Milk with Cardamom

A spice-steeped golden milk with bright fresh ginger, earthy turmeric and warm cinnamon, rounded out by maple and a nutty, velvety almond-butter body.

Maple Almond Golden Milk with Cardamom

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup180 gWater
  • 1 cup (240 ml)250 gWhole milk
  • 1 tbsp20 gAlmond butter, no salt added
  • 2¾ tsp18 gMaple syrup
  • 1½ tbsp grated10 gFresh gingerpeeled and thinly sliced
  • 1¼ tsp4 gGround turmeric
  • ¾ tsp2 gGround cinnamondivided
  • ¼ tsp0.5 gGround cardamom
  • ⅛ tsp0.3 gBlack pepper

Steps

  1. Peel and thinly slice the ginger before you start.
  2. In a small saucepan, combine the water, ginger, turmeric, cardamom, black pepper and three-quarters of the cinnamon.
  3. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and let it bubble gently for 5 minutes to make a fragrant spice tea.
  4. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk the almond butter with a few spoonfuls of the whole milk until smooth.
  5. Lower the heat to medium-low and whisk the almond butter mixture and the rest of the whole milk into the spice tea.
  6. Heat, whisking often, until steaming with small bubbles at the edge, about 3 minutes; do not let it boil.
  7. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the maple syrup.
  8. Pour through a fine strainer into two mugs to catch the ginger, dust the tops with the remaining quarter of the cinnamon and serve hot.

Contains: Milk, Tree nuts.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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