Let's be honest. It's mid-fall. We are not yet sick of pumpkin flavored everything. If anything, we want more of it! Starbeezy got everyone addicted to their pumpkin lattes, and I'm going to help you make them at home!! It's getting cold, winter is coming, and no one wants to go out into the Great White Chilly Nothing for a latte, amiright!?
Unfortunately, most of the available ready-made pumpkin syrups taste like a candle. Eww.
I'll show you how to make a pumpkin syrup that you can put in your coffee, use as a topping for ice cream, or as an ingredient in yummy autumny cocktails, or you can even use it to make pumpkin soda!!
You will need,
1 c white sugar
1 1/4 c water
3 tablespoons pumpkin puree
2 cinnamon sticks
1/2 teaspoon EACH ground cinnamon, ground clove, ground allspice, and ground nutmeg
In a saucepan over med heat combine all the ingredients, heat it up and then lower the temp and barely simmer for 15-20 minutes.
Through a very fine mesh strainer with cheesecloth in it, strain the finished syrup. There will be gloppy pumpkin and spice residue left in the cheesecloth. Discard it, you don't want it in your syrup. It makes it muddy and causes it to spoil quickly. Cool it completely, bottle it up, and put it in the fridge to enjoy for the rest of the season!
*This recipe is easily doubled or tripled, and with some adorable hermetic bottles, it would make a phenomenal gift!!
* To make pumpkin soda add the desired amount of pumpkin syrup to club soda. Stir and serve cold! If you want to kick it up another notch, add a dollop of vanilla ice cream, and VOILA!! You have a PUMPKIN FLOAT!!
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