Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Home

[Betty]

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!