It is with much ado that I’ve decided September is by far the shittest month in the calendar. Yeah, yeah, January is cold and wet, but September is just rubbish, full of the optimism of an Indian Summer, yet in reality it’s raining every day, the mornings are bleak, and dark nights are here by 8pm.
The one good thing about it is that Pumpkin Spice Lattes—the most delicious sip on the planet—are back in Starbucks. The sweet smell, the spiced taste, the whipped cream, all serve as a little get-me-through-this-shit-September-day-pick-me-up. It’s only until we realise that we’ve spent our entire daily food budget before 9am that we start to resent it slightly.
So to make everyone’s lives better, we flew to Seattle, snuck into the Starbucks HQ under a cloak of darkness, and risked our lives to steal the top-secret PSL recipe, so that you can save your pennies on its disposable cup fulls and make the delicious brew at home instead. Okay we didn’t really, but we have got a pretty damn identical tasting recipe right here. PSL pick-me-ups at home everyone!
Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe
Ingredients:
Tin of pumpkin puree (in the baking aisle at Waitrose)
Sugar
Vanilla essence (expensive, but worth it)
“Pumpkin spice” mix (that being a combo of ground cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg—aka, the spices you never use in your cupboard)
Milk (whole, for full-on, screw-the-calories taste)
Whipped cream in a can
Nutmeg for sprinkling on top
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.