Get ready for the fall season with this homemade pumpkin pie spice blend. The perfect combination of warm and aromatic spices for all your sweet treats and baked goods, like muffins, cakes, pies, lattes, cookies, and more.
Make your own pumpkin pie spice this fall and in large batches, with the perfect ratio to spice up and bring incredible fall flavors to all your sweet and savory dishes this season.
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What is Pumpkin Spice?
Pumpkin pie spice is a blend of warm and aromatic spices usually used to flavor pumpkin pie, pumpkin desserts, and other autumn recipes based on pumpkin and other squashes.
This blend can easily be prepared on the spot or bought ready-made in the shops. It's usually a blend of ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, and ground allspice.
But homemade pumpkin spice has the advantage of being cheaper to prepare at home, can be made in large quantities, and, above all, allows you to create the perfect balance between these warm spices.
This magical blend of spices is key to giving a special flavor to autumn desserts, pumpkin dishes and Thanksgiving recipes.
Which Fall spices to choose
- Cinnamon: This warm and aromatic spice is the more of all spices in balancing flavors and for a sweeter note.
- Ginger: Ground ginger gives a slightly piquant, spicy note.
- Nutmeg: Nutmeg enhances baked goods and adds a spicy note with a nutty, woody flavor.
- Cloves: Ground if you can find them commercially, they give a spicy, warm note.
- Allspice: Ground allspice has a warm aromatic flavor and is made from the dried berries of the Pimenta dioica tree. As an option, you can make this blend without allspice, as its flavor is very similar to the other spices.
⚠️ You'll find ingredient quantities and full instructions in the recipe card at the end of the page.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Place all ground spices in a bowl: ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, and ground allspices.
- Blend until well combined.
- Place pumpkin pie spice mixture in a small jar with lid and store in your drawer cupboard.
What to do with this spice blend
Here are a few recipes where you can use your Autumn spice blend:
- In my pumpkin bread with streusel recipe or in this carrot bread with cream cheese topping recipe, vanilla cinnamon pie.
- In your spiced lattes like this healthy pumpkin spice latte or this iced pumpkin spice latte.
- In your muffins, like these pumpkin crumble muffins.
- In sponge cakes, like in this gingerbread cake.
- In cookies like these mini gingerbread houses or these spiced Christmas snowflake cookies.
- Flavor your breakfast oatmeal, such as oatmeal porridge, homemade granola or overnight porridge.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
The pumpkin spice blend has a sweet and spicy taste with a warm and aromatic flavor often associated with cosy, comforting recipes
Yes you can still achieve a similar flavor profile by balancing the other spices by adding a little more nutmeg and clove.
Between 1 and 2 teaspoons in a pie or bread and about ½ to 1 tsp in muffins, cookies and cupcakes.
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Fall Pumpkin Pie Spice
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 small jar
Description
Pumpkin pie spice blend, the perfect mix for your autumn recipes (for a small jar).
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp. ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp. ground cloves
- 1 tsp. ground allspices
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix all the ground spices together until well blended.
- Store in a small glass jar with lid and keep at room temperature in your spice drawer.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Category: mix, blend, preparation
- Cuisine: American
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