Aromatic homemade pumpkin pie spice is MUST HAVE fall spice. Made of a combination of 5 “warm” spices. Our spice mix has cinnamon, ginger, all spice, cloves and nutmeg. It screams fall and enjoy it all way through holiday baking!
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What is pumpkin pie spice?
It’s a blend of delicious warm spices like cinnamon, ginger, all spice, nutmeg and cloves. Pumpkin pie spice is that one spice you’ll most often reach out for when baking is in full swing starting from fall all the way up until holiday baking.
The flavor combination of warm spices makes pumpkin pie and all-things-baked-with-pumpkin perfect-fit-for-fall!
What’s in pumpkin pie spice?
The most common spices used in pumpkin spice mix are:
Cinnamon, ginger, all spice, cloves and nutmeg. That’s all!
The recipe is customizable. For sharper flavor, amp up ginger and cloves. For softened cozier flavors, add more cinnamon.
Why homemade pumpkin pie spice?
Making your own spice blend mix has loads of benefits.
- Cheaper – doing your own spice blends saves money for sure. You don’t have to shell out hefty $. Also when you buy store bought spice blend you get a big batch. If you are someone who buy a particular spice just for one dish, later have those spice cans buried in your pantry for ages not even remembering you have that spice blend, then you are someone who should restore to homemade spice mixes.
- Customizable – make the spice blend that works for you. Most store bought pumpkin pie spice has predominant cinnamon flavor and taste to it. Balance the spices just right to work best for your palate. For sharper flavor, amp up ginger and cloves. For softened cozier flavors, add more cinnamon.
- Fresh spice(more aromatic and flavors) – homemade spice blend are definitely fresher, with strong flavors of each individual spice thus making it tastier than store bought ones.
- As much needed – Make just as much pumpkin pie spice you need and store in air tight jars.
- Autumn/fall/holiday baking sorted – it’s a season of pumpkin everything and with pumpkin pie spice in hand your good to go. Not just pumpkin, but a whole lot of fall baking dishes calls for pumpkin spice, so it’s worth doing a fresh batch of pumpkin pie spice once just when your getting ready for fall.
A bottle of nutmeg powder costs like $6 and a tiny bottle of clove powder works out like $7-8. Plus big fat chances are that you won’t end up using all of the ground clove or ground nutmeg for that matter.
I made my own clove, nutmeg powders. Whole nutmeg has longer shelf life and you can just buy a few and keep it in pantry. A mini grater is all you need to grate whole spices into ground spices.
To make clove powder, lightly roast cloves and blitz in spice blender. Sieve the ground mix to get fine powder and left over residues of cloves – don’t throw that away. Sprinkle the residues in curries.
How to make pumpkin pie spice?
Simply measure and add all the spices needed in bowl or glass jar.
Shake/stir to combine.
The ratio of the spices used can be customized. Balance the spices just right to work best for your palate. For sharper flavor, amp up ginger and cloves. For softened cozier flavors, add more cinnamon.
How to use pumpkin pie spice?
- pumpkin pies
- pumpkin cheesecakes
- pumpkin latte
- pumpkin cakes
- Pumpkin muffins
- Cinnamon rolls
- Pumpkin dip
- Granola
- Overnight oats
- In roasted squash and potatoes
MORE FALL FAVORITE RECIPES:
- Pumpkin latte
- Pumpkin muffins
- Cinnamon rolls
- Overnight oats
- Cinnamon apples
- Apple fritters
- Cinnamon French toast sticks
- Cinnamon sugar pretzels
- Instant pot applesauce
- Spiced apple cider
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📋Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon cinnamon powder
- 2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon all spice powder
- ½ teaspoon ground clove
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg powder
Instructions
- To make pumpkin pie spice blend, simply add all the spice powders to a bowl whisk together until well combined.
- Store the spice blend in air tight glass jars in cool dry place.
Notes
- Customizable – For sharper flavor, amp up ginger and cloves. For softened cozier flavors, add more cinnamon.
- As much needed – Make just as much pumpkin pie spice you need and store in air tight jars.
- Use whole spices to make ground spice –
- Ground cloves – dry roast whole cloves on low heat until it turns warm. Remove from pan, and blend it in spice blender to fine powder. You could also sieve the ground clove to get fine powder.
- Nutmeg powder – grate whole nutmeg using a mini grated.
- Ground ginger – you need dried whole ginger to make ground ginger. Dried ginger can also be grated in mini grater or blend in spice blender.
Comments & Reviews
Jagruti Dhanecha says
Totally agree here, homemade spices are the best, you know what goes in and Perfect share for this autumn and winter.
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Jagruti
Claire | The Simple, Sweet Life says
I’ve never made my own pumpkin spice mix before, but I love the idea since you’re totally in control of the ratio of the spices.
jyothirajesh says
It works cheaper as well Claire. Thank you, glad you liked it
Krista Price says
I’ve never even thought to make homemade pumpkin spice. I go through so much of it this time of year. This recipe is great and I have all the ingredients on hand. Thanks for sharing.
jyothirajesh says
thank you Krista
Carrie Ditton says
I love homemade spice blends! Every year I make a mad dash to the store for pumpkin pie spice and now with this recipe I won’t have to!
jyothirajesh says
Me too thank you Carrie
Tammy says
It really is one of the easy spice blends to make and so versatile too! I just love pumpkin pie spice!
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Tammy
Veronika's Kitchen says
I didn’t even know that you can make pumpkin spice at home) Definitely saving it for the next weekend baking!)
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Venonika
Nicoletta Sugarlovespices says
This is a must-have recipe! Especially during this time of the year, it saves me from going to buy storebought and have it fresh around all the time!
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Nicoletta
Dana says
Homemade spices like these are so much better than store bought! Not to mention you get so much more yield for much less.
jyothirajesh says
Thanks Dana
ALeta says
This is an excellent recipe, I love pumpkin spice everything so would be excellent to have a jar of the stuff kickin around for quick uses! Thanks for sharing 🙂
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Aleta
Elaine Benoit says
Homemade spice blends are always the best not only for the reasons you stated above but because they are so delicious and cost effective!! Your spice blend is perfect and I can’t wait to try it!
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Elaine
Gloria says
For years (and I mean many years) I always bought pumpkin pie spice. Since I started making my own, that is a thing of the past. Making your own allows you to create just the right combination of flavours you are looking for.
jyothirajesh says
Absolutely. Homemade are always best, you can create your own flavor, make just the right amount you want and all that under budget