Pumpkin Milk

You’ve probably heard of the pumpkin spice everything, but have you heard of pumpkin milk? Pump up your pumpkin flavor with this delicious and creamy autumnal themed flavored milk. With only two ingredients you will have everyone begging you for more.

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• 🥛 What is a Pumpkin Milk?
• ⭐ When to Make This Drink
• 📖 Variations
• 🥄 Equipment
• 📋 Ingredients
• 👩🏻‍🍳 Instructions
• Recipe

🥛 What is a Pumpkin Milk?

Pumpkin milk is a simple and delicious two ingredient drink made of pumpkin simple syrup and your milk of choice stirred together. This bright and beautiful flavored milk is creamy, sweet and full of pumpkin flavor that will warm you and your taste buds on the coldest day. Additionally, this drink can be served warm or cold.

Flavored milks are quite popular and most times very easy to make. This isn’t the only flavor, some other common variations are cinnamon milk, vanilla milk and peppermint milk.

One of the great things about this pumpkin milk is that it actually is very customizable to be able to make it as healthy or sweet as you prefer. Additionally, it’s so easy to make, you only need to toss your ingredients in your glass and stir them together.

Here are a couple of the reasons why you should try this recipe:

• Fall Paradise. There’s not much more of a fall flavor than pumpkin or pumpkin spice. This creamy and comforting flavored milk is perfect for the fall season.
• Quick and easy. With only two ingredients whipping this recipe up is it breeze. You should be able to have everything stirred together in 2 minutes or less.
• Super customizable. You can make this shoot whatever your flavor preferences are. It can be served warm or cold. And you can make it healthy and nutritious or a sweet treat.

⭐ When to Make This Drink

This drink is perfect for serving at any fall occasion. If you’re looking for some suggestions, consider a few of these:

• Thanksgiving get togethers
• Halloween parties
• Fall brunch
• Afternoon treat

📖 Variations

It is so easy to customize this drink with different ingredient substitutions and flavor variations. Here are just a few ideas you can consider:

• Make it warm. What’s more cozy and comforting than a cup of warm milk? Before you get started, carefully warm your milk on the stove top at medium heat for a few minutes.
• Make it pumpkin spice. What’s more fall than pumpkin flavor? Pumpkin spice flavor that is! Add in a dash of pumpkin spice seasoning to the drink or, use pumpkin spice syrup instead of regular pumpkin syrup.
• Make it dairy-free. Use a dairy-free alternative to the milk. Some great options include almond milk, oat milk and cashew milk. Just ensure that they are the unsweetened variations.
• Blend it. Instead of using a pre-made pumpkin syrup, use pumpkin puree and your choice of sweetener and blend all of your ingredients together. This is a good way to make this a healthier version as you can use any sweetener you prefer instead of refined sugar.
• Make it more decadent. You can make this more of a dessert drink by adding a large dollop of whipped cream on top and some nutmeg or cinnamon on top of the whipped cream. Or, you could add a cinnamon stick in the side of the glass.
• Adjust the sweetness. You can use more or less simple syrup to dial up or dial down the sweet flavor in the drink.

🥄 Equipment

• Highball Glass
• jigger
• Bar Spoon
• cocktail shaker (optional)
• Hawthorne strainer (optional)

📋 Ingredients

• 2 oz Pumpkin Simple Syrup (make your own with 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1 Cup Pumpkin puree)
• 4 oz of Milk
• Ice

👩🏻‍🍳 Instructions

Step one

Go ahead and make sure you have everything you need for this drink. You should gather up a rocks glass, cocktail shaker, hawthorn strainer, ice, jigger, pumpkin syrup and milk.

Note: any type of glass works fine for this drink. We chose a rocks glass, but you can use any glass you prefer

Step two

Fill both the glass as well as the shaker up with ice.

Step three

Measure up 2 oz of pumpkin syrup and add it to the shaker.

Note: You can purchase pumpkin syrup at the store or make your own. We have a whole detailed post on how to make pumpkin syrup, but you can also see a brief overview in the recipe card below.

Step four

Measure up 4 oz of milk and add it to the shaker.

Step Five

Cover the shaker with its lid. Then, shake well for around 15 seconds or until the shaker becomes slightly icy on the outside.

Remove the shaker lid and place the strainer over top of the shaker. Then, strain your milk from the shaker into your rocks glass.

Recipe