Gingerbread Spice Cookie Oatmeal

It's the holiday season! What better way to celebrate Christmas than enjoying a warm, hearty bowl of Gingerbread Cookie Oatmeal?

This recipe is SO easy- there are no added spices, syrups, and whatnot!

What makes the gingerbread flavor, you might ask? ...Tea!

For Christmas I got this amazing tea: Celestial Seasonings Gingerbread Spice. As you may guess I love this tea, and I just HAD to make it into oatmeal. I got this idea from Chocolate Covered Katie's sugar cookie oatmeal, that used 2 Celestial Seasonings Sugar Cookie tea bags to cook your oatmeal in. As a side note I also received 2 boxes of that sugar cookie tea- yum! So onto my recipe...

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Gingerbread Spice Cookie Oatmeal 

• 2 Celestial Seasonings' Gingerbread Spice tea bags
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats 
• stevia, (or sweetener of choice) to taste

Heat water until almost boiling and pour over the two tea bags in a large 4-cup bowl or stovetop pot. Steep for 5 minutes and then use a fork to squish more flavor out of the bags. Discard the tea bags now. Then add in the 1/2 cup milk and cook oatmeal how you usually do in either microwave ( nuke for 3 minutes) or stovetop (bring tea and milk to a boil, add in oats, reduce heat to medium, and cook uncovered stirring occasionally for 5 mins). Stir and let sit for 2 minutes, add in stevia, and enjoy!
Note: I cooked my oatmeal the night before and overnight it absorbed water, so if you are cooking your oatmeal in the morning add less milk or none at all.

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