Pumpkin cream cold Brew has landed and it is dang good! This Pumpkin cold brew recipe will have you feeling like a green-aproned barista in no time flat… perfect for all of us who might be working at home right now.

You can find all the ingredients to make the pumpkin cream or the cold brew at your local grocery store and you don’t need any fancy equipment. It’s the easiest pumpkin cream cold brew recipe you can get your hands on.

C’mon Cinderella, let’s go.

Pumpkin Spice Cold Brew

Pumpkin spice cold brew might top the list as one of our favorite fall drinks. Coffee is one of the things we look forward to every morning, it’s a reliable comfort to begin your day.

The pumpkin spice cold brew at Starbucks is basically cold brew coffee topped with heavenly aromatic pumpkin cream. The pumpkin cream is what makes the drink a total show stopper! Nailing the consistency of the pumpkin cream was key– it’s equally dense, light, and velvety and it almost floats on top of your coffee.

But we’ve got it! And this pumpkin spice cold brew adds something special called convenience.

It’s incredibly easy to prepare the cold brew coffee and the pumpkin cream for pumpkin cold brew in advance. When you wake up in the morning you’ll only need to assemble and enjoy your festive beverage.

How To Make Starbucks-Inspired Pumpkin Cold Brew

As the name says, pumpkin cream cold brew, we’ve got two factors at play here: Sweet, pumpkiny, velvety cream and bold, smooth cold brew! To recreate this Starbucks masterpiece you’ll need to make your own cold brew concentrate or you could even buy the Starbucks cold brew.

You’re also definitely going to want to have some pumpkin pie spice handy as the pumpkin cream gets a heavy dusting of pumpkin spice on top of it. There’s also pumpkin spice mix inside of the pumpkin cream. We’re going full pumpkin with it y’all.

Make The Cold Brew

Making your own cold brew coffee could be an entire book on its own– we’re going to give you a very basic recipe for a strong concentrate. You can ALWAYS dilute your cold brew to suit your tastes. It’s not as easy to make the coffee stronger.

To make cold brew at home we recommend 1 cup of coffee grounds to 2 cups of water. A coarsely ground light roast like a breakfast blend works excellent, but use what you have.

• Add the water & coffee grounds to a container and place in the fridge.
• We like to make cold brew in our french press- this way it’s super easy to strain, simply plunge the filter!
• Leave the mixture for 12-24 hours.
• Strain with cheesecloth or a nutmilk bag and store until ready for use.

Many people make cold brew as a concentrate then dilute it in their glass. This is where personal preference takes over our pumpkin cold brews… We recommend pouring a shot glass half full of cold brew and tasting a small sip. If it’s too strong, try filling the remaining half of the shot glass with water to dilute and taste again.

If it tasted too strong and you topped the shot glass with water, this is about a 50% dilution. Ya with me? 1 cup of your cold brew concentrate will be 2 cups when you dilute it with water.

This gives a good baseline ratio to use when you assemble your pumpkin cream cold brew! We usually take our coffees strong and don’t dilute them, but a 50% dilution is pretty standard with cold brew. Find what works for you or you can easily buy it at the store 🙂

Your cold brew concentrate can last up to 10 days in the fridge!

Make The Pumpkin Cream

First off, we’ve got 2 versions of the copycat Starbucks pumpkin cream here as we’re a flexitarian household- a dairy-free cream and a dairy-based pumpkin cream with whipping cream.

Vegan Pumpkin Cream:

OMG, you guys and you girls. We can’t wait to share this vegan pumpkin cream. It SENDS me. It holds up in the fridge. It doesn’t harden. It is the pumpkin food I adore most. It is a hug that I’ve been LOVING starting my day with. We’re going steady. Let’s dish.

Here’s what you’ll need for the vegan pumpkin cream:

• Coconut milk (from a can!- we like Thai Kitchen brand)
• Vegan butter
• Sugar
• Pumpkin puree
• Pumpkin spice seasoning
• Vanilla extract
• Almond extract (optional but highly recommended if you have it!)

Standard Pumpkin Cream:

This uses heavy whipping cream and is essentially a creamy pumpkin whipped cream! Make this in your bullet blender in less than 1 minute.

Here’s what you’ll need for the standard pumpkin cream:

• Whipping cream
• Butter
• Sugar
• Pumpkin puree
• Pumpkin spice seasoning
• Vanilla extract
• Almond extract (optional but highly recommended if you have it!)

Here’s the official ingredients from Starbucks if you care to take a peek.

Assembling Your Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew:

We’ve covered it- you have the core ingredients to make a pumpkin cream cold brew! Before we go, there are a few more tips we can give you to help your pumpkin cold brew taste as close to the real things as possible!

In the Starbucks version, they add vanilla syrup to the cold brew to sweeten and flavor it. You can make your own vanilla syrup at home, you can purchase vanilla syrup, or you can simply add a sweetener to your cold brew.

Regardless of which method you choose, sweetening your cold brew is an important step! Plain ol’ simple syrup works great. Maple syrup works great. You can add 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla to your simple syrup to easily make a vanilla-flavored syrup at home.

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