A Request: Pumpkin Spice Latte???
| September 26, 2011 | Filled under Beverages, Tips & How To's |
OK Lunch-Wagoners, I have a request. It is cooling off. Time to send hubby up in the attic for the fall decorations. Have to get my creativity flowing for this year’s Halloween costumes (yes, I still make them while the kids are small enough to put up with it). And all this makes me really, really crave one thing; Pumpkin Spice Lattes! Now you may be wondering “Why would she make them at home?” Sure I could get up on a Saturday, get dressed, get the kids out of bed, dress their squirmy, sleepy bodies, switch car seats to my car, drive across the bridge to a Starbucks, unstrap the kids, get in a long line, order, wait 10 minutes while listening to bad music while some hung-over 19 year old dumps processed ingredients into my cup, yell at the kids to stop touching the $300 coffee cup on the shelf, get my drink, drive back home and drink a lukewarm, too expensive, mass produced imposter. You see my delima.
So, I am asking for help from my favorite group of foodies – all of you. Do you have a recipe, know where to find one, or are making one up right now for homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte? If so, please do share. You can post it below. You can send it to me in the Contact section above. Or you can log on to the Lunch-Wagon on Facebook and share it there. Anyway you can, help me feed the craving so I (and all the Lunch-Wagon readers) can “Enjoy” from our cozy spot at home!
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Jen Baldinelli shared this link as a possible source for great homemade pumpkin spice latte: http://www.cooklikeachampionblog.com/2010/09/pumpkin-spice-syrup-for-pumpkin-spice.html
And it looks really great! Thanks for shareing Jen!!
Ann I was busting out laughing reading your “dilema”. haha. Loved this post! They are soo simple to make, and I would know, thanks to my college years of long term barista part time jobby. Good luck in your recipe search I will send you some links to aid you in your search!
Jess is my sweet cousin, a renowned blogger in her own right. (You can find all kinds of great ideas at her blog: http://www.rawandrepurposed.com/) Jess has suggested these this site for pumpkin spice lattes:
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=pumpkin+spice+latte
I have to be perfectly honest here, I licked the screen. I totally did, they look AMAZING!
[...] food blogger Ann Goza, better known as The Lunch Lady, worked up a post seeking suggestions for creating pumpkin spice lattes at home. I’ve always been a sugar and cocoa powder kind of guy in my unmasculine European coffees, [...]
Ann, I couldn’t resist the challenge, here’s the pumpkin spice syrup I came up with. It’s undergoing testing at the moment, but response has been positive so far.
http://foodies.blogs.starnewsonline.com/24122/pumpkin-spice-syrup/?pa=all&tc=pgall
Now the suggestions are “pouring” in (hehehe)! From one of my very favorite foodie hangouts, Port City Foodies, comes a great homemade redention. Check it out here: http://foodies.blogs.starnewsonline.com/ And thanks Paul for drifting from the bland world of cocoa for the far more sophisticated world of squishing pumpkin
Bless your foodie heart!