Showing posts with label Starbucks pumpkin spice latte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks pumpkin spice latte. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Homemade pumpkin spice creamer

We are already a week into October and I still cannot find pumpkin spice coffee creamer anywhere! My wallet can't take any more trips to Starbucks so I decided to do some web searching and what do you know... dozens of recipes for pumpkin spice creamer were just waiting to be found!
So, after looking through what I had in the fridge, I took some ingredients from one recipe, some from another and instructions/guidelines from a few others and came up with this-and let me tell you, this stuff is addicting!

2 cups half n half
1/4 cup maple syrup 
3 tablespoon pumpkin purée 
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk

Some of the recipes I found have you divide your cream or half n half and add part later once cooled. I have no patience so I just put the first four ingredients into a sauce pan and cooked on the stove top over medium heat, whisking frequently for about 10 minutes, then I added the condensed milk, whisked let it simmer on low for another 5 minutes, whisked some more, removed from heat, let it cool down a bit, then poured it in a jar I had saved.
I tasted some from what was left that didn't fit into the jar and it was amazing.

You can also make this recipe with heavy cream rather than half n half. I chose half n half because it was what I had available. (It's also cheaper and obviously less fatty if you care about that sort of thing)

So, do you have a go to pumpkin spice creamer recipe? If not, try this and let me know what you think!