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This recipe for easy Pumpkin Spice Coffee can be made using your favorite regular coffee or made into a Pumpkin Spice Latte. It’s refined sugar-free and customizable so you can make it dairy-free if you need to!

easy pumpkin coffeePumpkin Spice Latte Recipe

It’s Fall and that means we’re all collectively craving Pumpkin Spice Coffee! There is no shortage of it available in coffee shops now, but it’s pretty pricey and the ingredients are a little vague. Is there actually any pumpkin in that store-bought stuff? Well, no need to wonder for our recipe! Our Pumpkin Spice Latte recipe uses a homemade pumpkin butter, a splash of maple syrup and sprinkle of pumpkin spice to get that authentic pumpkin spice coffee taste! You can make it custom how you prefer, either as a latte with espresso and steamed milk, or keep it simple and add it to the cup of coffee you normally make for a super festive and delicious morning cup.

Here’s what you need to make it:

  • Pumpkin Butter: Make a big batch now for the season and freeze what you won’t use in two weeks time in small portions. When you are ready to use it, let it thaw in the refrigerator overnight, as needed.
  • Maple Syrup (or omit if you prefer to not add any additional sweetener)
  • Coffee or Espresso
  • Milk or creamer of choice
  • Pumpkin Spice

How to Make a Pumpkin Spiced Latte

Traditionally a latte contains a shot or two of espresso (or very strong coffee) topped with steamed milk. In the coffee shop, a pumpkin spice latte will contain this with some pumpkin flavored syrup. Our pumpkin spice latte actually contains pumpkin and you get to control the sweetness. To make it:

  1. Place pumpkin butter and maple syrup in a cup. Add in very hot espresso stir together until completely combined.
  2. Steam your milk either with a steam wand, using a handheld milk frother, or heat your milk and froth. Top with steamed milk and sprinkle with pumpkin spice and serve immediately.

How to Make Pumpkin Spice Coffee

We first discovered this pumpkin coffee during our testing of the pumpkin butter. We had so much leftover that we started using it in unexpected ways, including one morning when our Food Editor Kelli placed some in her coffee cup and discovered how well it works to make pumpkin coffee! Using it this way makes it taste just like a latte, without any extra effort of making espresso or steaming milk. To make easy pumpkin flavored coffee:

  1. Place pumpkin butter and maple syrup in a cup. Add in very hot coffee and stir together until completely combined.
  2. Top with milk, or creamer of choice and sprinkle with pumpkin spice and serve immediately.

very strong coffee mixed up with pumpkin spiceWhat Milk to Use

You can use any milk that you already do for your coffee! For dairy-free we prefer to use almond milk or oat milk, but any milk you typically use works too.

Check out these posts for homemade dairy-free milk:

Frothing the Milk

There are a few different tools out there to froth milk.

An attached steam wand: If you have an espresso machine with an attached steam wand, use that to steam the milk.

Hand held milk frother: This is the one I use. You can froth the milk with or without heating it up first, but I prefer to heat it first before frothing.

If you don’t have a milk frother and don’t want to buy one to make this is, you can slowly heat up the milk in a pot to the point of boiling. It will froth up a bit. Shut off the heat and use immediately. It won’t work exactly the same as milk that has actually been frothed, but it’s a close second.

frothing milk for pumpkin spice latte

Other ways to use up Pumpkin Butter

This recipe calls for making pumpkin butter to use in the pumpkin coffee. Pumpkin Butter is a sweet spread made up of cooked pumpkin puree with added sweetener and warm spices. Our recipe calls for either making it in the Instant Pot or in a Slow Cooker. It does make a large batch. You can freeze whatever you won’t use up in two weeks time. Freeze it in small portions so you can take out to defrost only what you plan to use. However, pumpkin butter has lots of uses. Use up any extra pumpkin butter

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Pumpkin Spice Coffee

4.80 from 5 votes
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

For Pumpkin Spice Latte:

  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin butter prepared
  • 1-2 teaspoons maple syrup
  • 1-2 shots of espresso 
  • 1 cup milk of choice
  • Pumpkin spice for garnish
  • For Pumpkin Coffee
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin butter prepared
  • 1-2 teaspoons maple syrup
  • 1 cup of coffee
  • Creamer / Milk of choice
  • Pumpkin spice for garnish

Instructions

  • Place pumpkin butter and maple syrup in a cup. Add in very hot espresso or coffee and stir together until completely combined.
  • Top with either steamed milk (for Pumpkin Latte) or milk of choice (for Pumpkin Coffee). Sprinkle with pumpkin spice and serve immediately.
Course: Drink
Cuisine: Gluten-free, Paleo
Author: Lexi's Clean Kitchen


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  1. 5 stars
    The perfect fall treat! Haven’t had a pumpkin spice latte in years and I’m so happy to have found this clean version so I can enjoy one again!

  2. 5 stars
    I made the coffee version for breakfast. It was so easy and delicious! The pumpkin butter combines with coffee beautifully and adds a perfect fall flavor. My pumpkin butter was from another blogger and was already pretty sweet so I omitted the maple syrup. Will definitely make this on repeat!

  3. 5 stars
    I am a huge fan of Pumpkin Spice latte’s and have been looking for a healthier version that I could make at home. I made this with Trader Joe’s pumpkin butter and unsweetened vanilla almond milk and it was delicious! This will be a seasonal staple in my house; thanks for the great recipe!