Homemade Pumpkin Spice is a must for the Fall and Winter months. Everywhere you go, it is pumpkin spice this, pumpkin spice that. Well, now you can make your own to add to any recipe you want!
Homemade Pumpkin Spice
Fall is my favorite time of year around here. The leaves are changing to beautiful colors, the temperatures are getting cooler, and it is the season of pumpkin spice! Ever since that coffee shop starting serving its Pumpkin Spice Latte, the Pumpkin Spice Bandwagon has been on a roll! As soon as one person posts about drinking a pumpkin spiced drink of some sort, Fall has officially begun. I am not complaining. I appreciate a pumpkin spiced beer once in a while!
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Recipe
If you look up a recipe for pumpkin spice, I can almost guarantee that you will see allspice as an ingredient. You will notice in my Homemade Pumpkin Spice recipe that I did NOT use allspice in my ingredients. Allspice tastes just like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Three of my four ingredients for Homemade Pumpkin Spice are…wait for it…cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Imagine that! So really, adding allspice is a bit redundant. Just try it, and let me know that you agree with me😉.
Ingredients
- Cinnamon: I like cinnamon, and I used quite a bit in this recipe. Plus, cinnamon has plenty of awesome health benefits! Most cinnamon is the Cassia variety, which you do need to watch how much you are consuming. If available, choose the Ceylon variety.
- Nutmeg: Nutmeg is often used in pumpkin spiced food, so it makes sense to be included here.
- Ginger
- Cloves
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Spice
Using the four ingredients, and trying really hard not to add a touch of allspice, measure each one and mix them all together in a bowl. Store your Homemade Pumpkin Spice in a sealed container, glass being best, and have it handy for all those pumpkin spice recipes!
Looking for More Recipes to Use Pumpkin Spice?
Now that you have your Homemade Pumpkin Spice on hand, it’s time to use it in a recipe!
Have your own Pumpkin Spice on hand to use for all your fall and holiday recipes!
- 4 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
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Measure ingredients into a bowl. Whisk together well and then store in an airtight container for easy use.
Hate to burst your bubble here, but allspice is it’s own spice. It is a berry from Jamaica.
Bubble not burst. 🙂 The addition of it to homemade pumpkin spice is not unique enough for it to make a difference, as allspice tastes like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Especially heavily produced versions. If I were a baker in the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Latin American, I would give it the glory it deserves. 🙂
OMG!! I’m baking pumpkin cake this morning and was looking for a recipe for pumpkin pie spice. Great timing!!
Thanks so much!!
Do you have recipes to go along with this spice mix! Pumpkin bread etc
Yes, I link to several in the post above.
How much of this awesome spice combo would one use in a recipe that lists all the individual spices? I’m thinking total them up & use that amount?
Thank you for the measurements for these spices, this is how my mother made hers plus the evaporated milk. She has passed and I never got the recipe for the spices. Now they will taste just like mothers did when growing up.💞
can you make airfreshner from this recipe.I have a wax thing for melting wax fragrances.I have potpourri dishes to make fragrances all day.im just looking for a strong smelling pumpkin scent..ty any ideas?
Just printed…can’t wait to mix. thanks!
Love all your recepies do you sell or have a cookbook
Thank you! Cookbook Coming soon!
Love all that you teach. Your a good Baker
I absolutely love cinnamon! After having said that, I am allergic to cinnamon and am terribly distressed by this. Can you make up a recipe for apple pie spice and pumpkin pie spice that tastes great and I can safely eat? Much appreciation!!!!!
Would you have a Recipe of this for a Bigger Batch to use. Thank you.
I have made this, however, I get confused as to how much to use in a recipe that calls for these ingredients, separately. (ie. pumpkin pie).
Any advice would be appreciated!
Hi DeNiece- I wouldn’t use pumpkin spice in a recipe that calls for “nutmeg” or just “cinnamon”. If you are using homemade pumpkin spice instead of store-bought pumpkin spice, I would start with HALF the amount suggested. For instance, if the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon, I would start with 1/2 teaspoon of the homemade. The homemade tends to be much more flavorful!
Love the ideas…
At one time, did you have a pound cake recipe using this spice? It didn’t have any pumpkin puree or mix or anything like that in it. I would swear I saw a recipe a few years ago like that with a link in the ingredients to this spice recipe…
I really like your home Pumpkin Spice.
Those are the absolute best spices together, for pumpkin.
Great Job.
I love your blog!!! Keep them coming girl!. Fall is here, my favorite season,and I’m a baker too! And that’s actually how I found you. I was on my phone talking to a friend an said well I’m a baker. Then I went to Facebook and there you were. 😊 so yay us!!
Allspice and cinnamon have their own individual flavor. They have never tasted the same. Which makes both unique when added together.