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Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix Recipe

Homemade pumpkin pie spice in a glass jar with the ingredients around it
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How to Make Your Own Pumpkin Spice

Catherine Boeckmann
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This homemade pumpkin spice recipe takes just minutes to mix up鈥攚ith several ingredients that you may already have in your pantry! Then add this fragrant mix to pies, pancakes, roasted fall veggies, lattes, oatmeal鈥攁nd even your carved pumpkin!

Oddly enough, 鈥減umpkin鈥 spice doesn鈥檛 contain any trace of actual pumpkin! Rather, it鈥檚 a combination of several spices that, together, bring to mind the foods of autumn: pumpkin pie, pumpkin seeds, and so on.

Why is it so delicious? It鈥檚 no secret, really. We all associate those spice scents with homemade goods and warm memories of family gatherings and happy, cozy moments.

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Pumpkin Spice Mix Recipe

To create pumpkin spice mix, combine the following:

  • 1/3 cup ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg or mace
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons ground allspice

Looking for an easy autumn gift? Make a gift jar of spice and add a tag with these instructions: 鈥淔or pumpkin pie, add 1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons of spice mix to your other ingredients.鈥

Tip: Sprinkle a teaspoon of pumpkin spice mix into your carved pumpkin before lighting the candle. Your Jack-O-Lantern will still look spooky, but smell delightful! Find other pumpkin carving tips and tricks, then learn how to carve a pumpkin or how to cook a pumpkin.

Try adding this pumpkin pie spice mix to our Creamy Pumpkin Pie or Blue Ribbon Pumpkin Pie!

pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top being cut into by a fork

Where did pumpkin spice come from? Enjoy the column, A Century-Long Passion for Pumpkin Spice.

Finally, see Pumpkin Recipes for even more pumpkin-flavored foods!

Pumpkin Recipes
About The Author

Catherine Boeckmann

Catherine Boeckmann loves nature, stargazing, and gardening so it鈥檚 not surprising that she and The Old Farmer鈥檚 蜜桃恋人 found each other. She leads digital content for the 蜜桃恋人 website, and is also a certified master gardener in the state of Indiana. Read More from Catherine Boeckmann
 

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Sarita (not verified)

10 years 9 months ago

Are you using ground fresh ginger? I imagine it's store bought dry ginger you're referring to.
Please clarify. Thanks.

Kalia (not verified)

11 years 2 months ago

I was wondering if there was anyway to make it with out cinnamon by daughter is highly allergic to it and I don't want to make it if she can't have it thank you

I sometimes substitute coriander for cinnamon in different recipes. My daughter and I have an allergy to cinnamon too.

From McCormick:
"Allspice is a cured, unripe berry from a tropical evergreen tree. Allspice when ground releases aromatic notes reminiscent of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg."

From Wiki:
"Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, pimento, English pepperor newspice, is the dried unripe fruit ("berries", used as a spice) of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name 'allspice' was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves."

All Spice aka Pimento is a berry :) so no it does not have cinnamon in it

I should say, some do. So be careful. I don't know how to edit comments and this got posted before I was ready. Sorry about that.

ana silva (not verified)

11 years 5 months ago

Hello was surprised how to make pumpkin spice the only thing here in portugal they dont have allspice what should be done thanks so much i hope to hear back from you. Bye