Easy Homemade Pumpkin Spice Sauce Recipe for Coffee
It’s that time of year when autumn starts creeping in and you want something deliciously indulgent, try this amazing homemade pumpkin sauce recipe for coffee! It’s the perfect way to add fall flavor to cold brew coffees, homemade lattes, and so much more! So here’s to pumpkin spice season, friends!
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There’s just something about gathering with a few close friends with a warm cup of coffee and having good conversations. And nothing says the fall season is here like a warm drink on a chilly day! So grab a few friends and whip up your own Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes with this simple recipe.
Why You’ll Love This Pumpkin Sauce Recipe for Coffee
While this is an easy recipe and made with simple ingredients, it’s the perfect way to fill that craving of your favorite Starbucks Pumpkin Spice drink at home!
Making your own will soon become your favorite way to save some money and not have to question the ingredients, because you made it!
Main Ingredients
One of the best things about this recipe is that it’s made with simple ingredients and real ingredients with only natural flavors to keep it on the healthier side. You likely have most of these ingredients in your pantry now and if you don’t they are easy to grab at your local grocery store.
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- Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk or Sweetened Condensed Milk – I have been using sweetened condensed coconut milk to make caramel for the last few years and trust me, it’s amazing! Even if you don’t like coconut, I promise you won’t know it’s coconut! I purchase from Thrive Market. But you can also use your favorite regular sweetened condensed milk.
- Coconut Sugar or Brown Sugar (optional) – Coconut sugar is a healthier alternative to brown sugar, but if you have brown sugar on hand you can use it too!
- Pure Pumpkin Puree – For that real pumpkin flavor, be sure you don’t use pumpkin pie filling. And for the best pumpkin flavor you need to use an actual pumpkin puree, real pumpkin puree! If you really want to make this homemade, try this homemade pumpkin puree recipe.
- Salt – This helps bring all the flavors together. I love using Redmon’s Real Salt, but your favorite salt will work too!
- Vanilla Extract – This just adds to the warm flavors found in this recipe.
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
The perfect homemade pumpkin pie spice is made of these yummy, warm spices! If you don’t have all of these or you just want to simplify things, you can use a premade pumpkin pie spice.
- Ground Cinnamon
- Ground Ginger
- Ground Nutmeg
- Ground Cloves
- Ground Allspice
How to Make This Pumpkin Sauce Recipe for Coffee
- Place a small saucepan on the stovetop over medium heat. Add the sweetened condensed milk and bring it to a simmer.
- If you want it sweeter you can combine sugar into the pan now or skip this step.
- Stir in pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, and salt.
- Bring it back to a simmer before turning the heat down to low and allowing it to continue simmering for 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Remove the pan from heat.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Allow the pumpkin pie sauce to cool for about 15 to 30 minutes to room temperature before moving it to an airtight container, glass jar, or mason jar and storing it in the fridge for up to 3 days.
- Use the sauce to add pumpkin spice flavor to hot or cold coffees, lattes, or even ice cream milkshakes!
Tips
To make this recipe easier you can substitute the individual spices for 1 ½ teaspoons of a premade pumpkin pie spice.
Variations
Easily switch this pumpkin sauce recipe to a creamer by adding heavy cream. Simply add 1 ½ cups of heavy cream to the pot when you’re adding your spices! Add to your morning cup of coffee!
If you like your creamer extra sweet, add a teaspoon or two of brown sugar to the sweetened condensed milk to make it even more rich and syrupy!
Add whipped cream and to get really fancy add a few cinnamon sticks to the top. Here’s my favorite whipped cream recipe!
Go ahead have some fun this pumpkin season with some friends over and whip up your own at-home pumpkin spice lattes and make some of these delicious pumpkin pancakes to pair!
FAQS
What is Starbucks pumpkin sauce made of?
As listed on their website, “Sugar, Condensed Skim Milk, Pumpkin Puree, Contains 2% or less of Fruit and Vegetable Juice for Color, Natural Flavors, Annatto, Salt, Potassium Sorbate”.
What is pumpkin sauce made of?
Most pumpkin sauce recipes contain a combination of condensed milk, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice seasoning, and sugar.
Is there a difference between canned pumpkin and pumpkin puree?
There is not a difference between canned pumpkin and pumpkin puree. You could use fresh pumpkin puree instead of canned for this recipe if you prefer.
Pumpkin Sauce for Coffee
When autumn starts creeping in and you want something deliciously indulgent, try this amazing homemade pumpkin sauce for coffee! It’s the ideal way to add fall flavor to cold brew coffees, pumpkin spice lattes, and so much more!
Ingredients
- 2 (7.4oz) Can of Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk or 1 (14oz) Can of Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 (15 ounce) Can Pure Pumpkin Puree
- ¼ Ground Cinnamon**
- ¼ tsp Ground Ginger**
- ¼ tsp Ground Nutmeg**
- ¼ tsp Ground Cloves**
- ¼ tsp Ground Allspice**
- 1⁄4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Place a small saucepan on the stovetop over medium heat. Add the sweetened condensed milk and bring it to a simmer.
- If you want it sweeter you can combine sugar into the pan now or skip this step.
- Stir in pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, and salt.
- Bring it back to a simmer before turning the heat down to low and allowing it to continue simmering for 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Remove the pan from heat.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Allow the pumpkin pie sauce to cool for about 15 to 30 minutes to room temperature before moving it to an airtight container, glass jar, or mason jar and storing it in the fridge for up to 3 days.
- Use the sauce to add pumpkin spice flavor to hot or cold coffees, lattes, or even ice cream milkshakes!
Notes
Easily switch this pumpkin sauce recipe to a creamer by adding heavy cream. Simply add the heavy cream to the pot when you're adding your spices! Add to your morning cup of coffee!
If you like your creamer extra sweet, add a teaspoon or two of brown sugar to the sweetened condensed milk to make it even more rich and syrupy!
You can substitute the individual spices for 1 1/2 tsp of pumpkin pie spice.
More for Fall
Cheesecake Balls
These cheesecake balls are so easy to make and have the best flavor! Made with rich cream cheese, graham crackers, sugar, vanilla, and white chocolate, it’s like a mini cheesecake!
Easy Monkey Bread
This is such a fun recipe to make for breakfast or even to share with others as a dessert and it’s absolutely perfect for Fall! Best of all, it’s completely made from scratch (no canned biscuits), but don’t worry it’s still completely covered in the delicious cinnamon and sugar!
Pumpkin Gingersnap Bites
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