Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Home
 

I am so obsessed with Pumpkin Spice Lattes - probably because I just can't afford to have them as much as I'd like - which is every day.

So, over the weekend, I've been experimenting.

I have an espresso maker but couldn't find one of the pieces :( so I ground my coffee extra fine and use a lot of coffee for a little bit of water to make extra strong coffee more similar to espresso. I need to find the missing piece or maybe I'll try some instand espresso powder I guess. The coffee was fine though.

I used my machine to steam the milk - but you could just microwave or heat it up in a pan I think.

I made a simple syrup and add pumpkin pie filling - but it was very weak on pumkin and overly sweet in the coffee.

So then I made less simple syrup and more pumpkin - but tried simply canned pumpkin. That was better but was still very lacking in pumpkin.

So I looked online and noticed that Torani now makes a Pumpkin Spice syrup that I'm going to have to get. I think that Smart & Final carries Torani syrup and doesn't Costco too? I'll have to check it out.

Until then - you know that Dryers Pumpkin Ice Cream is also very very tasty. Like icy cold and very creamy pumpkin pie. Yum!

my sister is enjoying a pupkin pie shake from Jack in the box right now. She says it's good but I don't know.... I worry it would be too sweet.... But pumpkin pie ice cream, in and of itself, is spectacular.

Love the Torani syrups, Smart & Final, $3.69.

Unfortunately they don't make a sugar-free pumpkin spice. :(

Damn. I went to Smart and Final and they carried so many flavors -but not pumpkin spice. For those interested, they did have ginger spice which might make for a good recipe for their gingerbread latte or whatever it was called.

I also tried Bevmo online but they didn't have it either. :(

I may just have to order it from some company online.

Where do you live? Several S & Fs around here (L.A.) have the pumpkin syrup.

Oh no...

LOL

Pumpking is again, the new black... YUM!

I need to get back on the suggerless waggon with the comador.
what we need is a flavor lab lots of pyrex containers and an abundance of suggar substitutes.

Scoot over Kevy, here comes T-spot.

Time to start a new thread? The holidays are upon us, and soon Mrs. Beasley's minions will be bombarding us with evil muffin baskets.

Jack's been sayiing that to me for a while now! ;)

Okay - now I know I'm not the only one.

See: http://cgi.ebay.com/Starbucks-Pumpki...QQcmdZViewItem

It's a eBay auction where one jug is going for (so far) $51! that's FIFTY ONE DOLLARS! OMG!

just sick! How badly do I want that? So damn bad.