How to make the best pumpkin spice latte at home with pumpkin puree, coffee, milk, and fall spices. Better than Starbucks! Jump to the Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe or watch our quick video showing you how to make it.
The moment Fall hits, we rush to our local coffee shop and order a pumpkin spice latte. We love them so much, we took it upon ourselves to try making it at home. This recipe is easy and I bet you have most, if not everything, you need to make it at home right now.
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How to Make the Best Pumpkin Spice Latte at Home
This recipe comes together in under 10 minutes.
Start by heating milk, pumpkin puree, and sugar on the stove. You can use whole, 2 %, skim, or dairy-free milk. Coconut or almond milk would be delicious.
How to make homemade pumpkin puree from scratch to be used in your favorite pumpkin recipes. See the Easy Pumpkin Puree Recipe
Then we add vanilla, pumpkin pie spices, and strong coffee. The mixture gets divided between two mugs and it’s time for whipped cream.
Simple, quick, and no coffee shop lines.
Use this homemade pumpkin puree for things like our Easy Pumpkin Mac and Cheese, Homemade Pumpkin Pancakes, Seriously Good Pumpkin Cupcakes and Pumpkin Pie.
Recipe updated, originally posted November 2011. Since posting this in 2011, we have added a recipe video and tweaked the recipe to be more clear. – Adam and Joanne
The Best Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe
- PREP
Make the popular coffee house pumpkin latte at home. Canned or homemade pumpkin puree both work well in this recipe.
You Will Need
2 cups milk (dairy or non-dairy)
2 tablespoons pumpkin puree, see our homemade pumpkin puree recipe
1 to 3 tablespoons sugar, depending on how sweet you like it
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, plus more for serving
1/2 cup strong hot coffee
Whipped cream, for serving
Directions
Add milk, pumpkin puree, and sugar to a saucepan over medium heat. Heat until hot, but do not boil. Remove the saucepan from the heat and whisk in the vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and the coffee.
Divide the mixture between two mugs. Top with whipped cream and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Milk: This tastes best with 2% or whole milk, but you can substitute with skim milk. Non-dairy milk like soy, almond, or coconut milk will also work.
- Sugar: This recipe calls for 1 to 3 tablespoons of sugar. How much you use is up to you. We tend to prefer less sugar in our drinks. You can also use a sugar substitute. Add this to taste.
- Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend: Find pumpkin pie spice at the store or make it at home. You likely have everything you need to make it already. Mix the following spices in a spice jar: 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon + 2 teaspoons ground ginger + 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg + a pinch of ground cloves.
- Nutrition Facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates. We have used the USDA Supertracker recipe calculator to calculate approximate values. We assumed 2% milk and 1 tablespoon of sugar.
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This is seriously so much better than Starbucks- and completely guilt-free! I used 3 tsp of truvia sweetener in place of the sugar and that was perfect for me. Thanks for sharing this gem!
Excellent!!! Thank you so much for a delicious recipe. Knowing what is in my latte makes me happy. I used all organic ingredients. I will make these often and feel good about drinking them. Such a warm and cozy drink.
does it work to mix the non-coffee ingredients together and store it in the frig? then add to coffee as needed?
Hi Ann, that is a great idea!
Delicious!! Will make again. We used truvia instead of sugar and added whipped cream to the shopping list ; )
I just made a single-serving dairy free version of this and used vanilla almond milk plus a splash of vanilla, a shot of espresso instead of coffee, and a bit of honey in place of the sugar. It was already amazing but then i remembered I had some vanilla toffuti ice cream in the freezer and put in a couple spoonfuls of that in place of the whipped cream and oh god…I wish this stuff could flow through my veins. Happy fall and thank you very much for the recipe!
Just finished making this, Delicious! Made it with vanilla almond milk and it turned out awesome. Will be making it again! 🙂
Made this only substituting the vanilla extract for maple syrup (simply because I just ran out of vanilla). Delicious!! Quick and easy to make! Thank you for sharing this with us pumpkin lovers!
The flavour isn’t quite as strong as Starbucks(maybe use more strong coffee?) but other than that it’s very good!
OH SOOOO GOOD!!!! I halved the recipe and made just one serving for myself. and instead of heating up the whole cup of milk in the pan, i heated up 1/2,and frothed the other half so I’d save some calories on the whipped cream. It was so perfect!
You know what makes this super easy?? Using pumpkin butter bc it already has the spices in it!
W O W…Made this using Pumpkin Butter from Trader Joe’s. This was excellent…just stirred into my already strong, hot coffee with cream, and topped with whipped cream. Thanks, Nicole!