How to Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer

Satisfying your craving for pumpkin spice coffee has never been easier with this Homemade Pumpkin Coffee Creamer with whole-food ingredients!

This recipe will show you how to get the taste you’re craving, at home, for a fraction of the cost. Not to mention, it’s made with whole-food ingredients you know and love!

Why Should you Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer at Home?

Sure, you could go pick up a bottle of pumpkin coffee creamer at the store. Or even a pumpkin coffee at one of the famous coffee chains.

But… after a while, your wallet starts hurting. And I don’t know about you, but often times, my belly does too!

That’s because one cup of coffee can cost you up to $7 or $8 this way! OUCH!

Not to mention the ingredients you can avoid, like:

• Vegetable oil (especially hydrogenated oils)
• Sodium caseinate (made when casein proteins are chemically extracted from skim milk)
• Natural flavors
• Artificial flavors (according to the fda “any substance, the function of which is to impart flavor, which is not derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof.” also, includes any lab synthesized versions of flavor molecules.)
• Mono and diglycerides (Mono- and diglycerides are emulsifiers, which means they help oil and water to blend. You can find more info on these here)
• Dipotassium phosphate (It’s used as an emulsifier, stabilizer, and texturizer – more info here.
• Cellulose gel & Cellulose gum (thickening agent/stabalizer – learn more here.
• Carrageenan (thickening agent and stabalizer – more info here.

I barely recognize the names of these, but I do know they aren’t readily available to me unless I’m buying processed food.

I’m not going to tell you the “risks” involved here, because I am not a scientist. However, it takes very little research to know that these ingredients listed above, hold no nutritional value, and no claim to.

Why bother spending your hard earned money on a laundry list of fillers, stabilizers, and thickeners, when you can create a cheaper, tastier, more nutritionally valuable product at home/?

Sure, it’s wildly convenient to purchase these things, but isn’t making it at home worth it?

Hopefully after you try this recipe, you’ll answer with an all-caps “YES”!

Can I Change this Recipe Seasonally?

While I’m a sucker for this particular seasonal flavor, you can really adapt this recipe to your liking depending on the time of year.

Omit the pumpkin & spice for a salted caramel flavor, switch the maple syrup for honey to make a honey latte.

The options are endless, but always delicious, and affordable.

Check out our other creamer recipes!

• Peppermint Mocha Coffee Creamer Recipe
• French Vanilla Creamer Recipe

What You’ll Need to Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer

The beauty of this recipe is that you’ll recognize all of these ingredients without fear misspelling them on your grocery list. Not to mention, none of them will break the bank when you can get even make multiple batches!

Tools

• Wooden spoon
• Whisk
• Small sauce pot
• Funnel
• Milk filter, cheese cloth, or strainer
• Funnel
• Jar to store the pumpkin coffee creamer

Ingredients

Because you are making this at home, you have full control over the ingredients you are using. All the ingredients listed below are whole-foods that you can choose the sourcing of. You can choose to make this part of the process as simple or involved as you want.

Grab your cheapest whole milk at the store, or find a cow share to get fresh raw milk from. Buy brown sugar, or make your own with organic cane sugar & molasses! The options are endless and empowering!

• Whole milk (preferably non-homogenized, organic if you can find it, low-heat, vat pasteurized is even better!)
• Water
• Brown sugar (organic cane sugar + molasses = no brainer)
• Maple syrup (literally sap tapped from a tree… yum!)
• Cinnamon (a spice that is tree bark!)
• Nutmeg (a spice that is a tree seed)
• Ginger (a spice that is a plant root)
• Vanilla extract (vanilla beans extracted into an alcohol)
• Pumpkin puree (blended pumpkin)
• Salt

How to Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer

Start out by combining the sugar water and maple syrup to your small pot over medium heat.

Next, bring the mixture to a boil. This will thicken the base for a nuttier syrup base for the creamer.

Simmer for about 5 minutes, but watch it carefully. Scraping boiled sugar off your stove top is not a fun task… Ask me how I know!

Turn the heat to low, and stir in the milk, pumpkin, spices, and salt.

Use the whisk to combine thoroughly and allow to warm through. (about 2 more minutes)

Once the mixture is combined and warmed through, turn off the heat.

Next, stir in the vanilla.

Finally, allow to cool for about 5 minutes before pouring into a glass jar to avoid breaking.

For the best result, pour your creamer through a milk filter or cheese cloth to remove any sediment caused by the pumpkin puree and the spices. This step isn’t necessary, but does yield a superior product! Don’t worry, the flavor of the pumpkin and spice is already infused into the milk.

Serve your creamer with hot, fresh coffee, some warm cookies or coffee cake, and enjoy!

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