Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe
Once you try homemade pumpkin pie spice, you’ll likely never go back to store-bought! It’s easy to make with spices you already have in your cupboard.
I make my own taco seasoning, so I figured I could easily make my own pumpkin pie spice. (Also see my beef stew seasoning, herbes de provence, and curry seasoning mix!)
Making your own seasoning mixes at home saves money and tastes better. You can customize them to your own taste. Many spice mixes have a lot of added salt or preservatives, neither of which I want in my foods.
Also, if you’re like me, you don’t use spices quickly enough, so making your own blends with what you already have in your pantry assures that all your spices will be used while they are still fresh and tasty.
So toss out your old pumpkin pie spice that’s been sitting in your pantry for 10 years and pull out your cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cloves.
You can use this homemade pumpkin pie spice:
- for pumpkin pie (duh)
- for pumpkin cheese cake
- as a topping for sweet potatoes
- sprinkled in your coffee (hello pumpkin spice latte!)
- added to the dry ingredients in pancake or waffle batter
- stirred into your oatmeal
Try homemade pumpkin pie spice in these recipes:
I like to recycle spice jars to put my new spice mixture in. I write up a quick label, draw a pumpkin on it because I’m a dork (not to mention a terrible artist), and date it.
Seriously amazing.
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
Once you try homemade pumpkin pie spice, you’ll likely never go back to store-bought! It’s easy to make with spices you already have in your cupboard. Perfect for fall baking!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg (use store-bought ground nutmeg if you need to but I promise once you try freshly ground, you’re never going back)
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
Instructions
1. Mix together all ingredients and store in airtight container.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 3Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 0mgCarbohydrates: 1gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 0g
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77 Comments on “Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe”
Yup, this is great. I made it to use in the Pumpkin Bran Muffins, but thinking I might need to use in another pumpkin muffin recipe I have too.
I’m so glad you like it! It’s such a great thing to have on hand.
Love it! Especially at the end where you said you drew a pumpkin because you are a dork!
haha I am a dork!
Hi Rachel,
HELP! I am making a recipe that calls for all of the ingredients in pumpkin spice (which I have) seperately. So how do I know how much pumpkin spice to use? It calls for 1 tbls cinnamon, 1/2 tsp, ginger, 1/2 tsp allspice, and 1/4 tsp cloves. Would 1 tbls b too much?
Thank you
Hmm — what are you making? No nutmeg listed in the recipe? I’d say 1 tablespoon is a pretty safe bet! Maybe even slightly more since the spices listed in the recipe add up to 1T + 1 and 1/4tsp. Taste it before you bake it! :)
Thanks. I made pumpkin ginger cupcakes. I used the spices called for an used the pumpkin spice for the allspice. They turned out great!Thanks for your help. :)
Thank you for the pumpkin pie spice ingredients. I have tried to purchase it from local stores, but have been unsuccessful. Now, I will go buy some fresh nutmeg and follow your instructions!
You’re welcome! I need to refill my supply as well!
LOVE this so much!!
Fab!! can’t wait to make it :) love your Taco mix, and I know I will love this to.
Aww, thanks! They are two of my favorite recipes.
Hi from a new reader. Where did you get the glass spice jar for your pumpkin spice mix? I have been looking for some. thanks, I use this spice weekly so am glad for the recipe.
Amazon! I think these are the ones I have.
Love these spice blends so far! If you can figure out how to duplicate “Club House” Country Herb salad ‘n dip mix I would be forever greatful! It’s the only dip my daughter will eat and I’m going broke buying it a packet at a time!
Never heard of that–I’ll look into it! I have another spice blend coming this week.
Love your recipes!
Thanks so much, Kitty!
I have been sick and am now restricted on salt. I love the taco seasoning recipe you posted on Facebook and I have been cutting and pasting and trying to print it out but I can’t do it. Is there any way you could send it to me? I am so sick of bland food. [email protected]
Thanks for the recipie, I’ve just made this to go with my homemade pumpkin latte syrup :)
Glad you liked it! I could go for a pumpkin spice latte right now!
What a great idea. I am going to make some and give for gifts. Thanks for sharing.
Love the idea of making your own spice blends. Eh would make great holiday gifts with a recipe attached.
I just did this too but yours is so much prettier!
What a great idea!! Perfect for holiday gifts;). I actually just posted a recipe using some of these spices, but I think the whole combo would work perfectly!
what gorgeous photos!!!
I LOVE this idea!!! I saw something similar on another site, but your little labeled bottle just drew me in, so cute. :) Great photos, can’t wait to try this out.
so easy, it’s a crime not to pull some together for my baking this weekend :)
Yup, I’m sending the spice police after you if you don’t bake with it this weekend. ;)
This is such a great idea! I’m like you – I don’t use spices that much so they sit in my pantry and get old and clumpy!
I think this is ingenious. Love your ideas for uses as well. Oatmeal?! How terrific! Latte?! Even better! :) This definitely is going to make it into an empty spice jar. But my spice jar won’t look nearly as cute as yours. You drew a pumpkin I see. I am an anti-artist. No,I am not against artists (my husband and daughter are both artists) but I am the worst artist imaginable. Have a great Thursday!
Haha, I’m just glad that you can tell it is a pumpkin, Geni! ;) My sister got the artist skills in our family, I’m more the math/science girl.
Hi Rachel! I just found your blog from Eat, Live Run. I also am a young mom with TWO little girls – and have stopped working full-time to focus more on my family and my true passion – writing! (I write children’s books!) Anyway, I’m excited I found you! I am always trying to find quick simple recipes for my family too. Thanks for the tips!
Thank you Leslie! How cool that your write children’s books! Our daughter LOVES to “read.” Of course, we’ve been encouraging it since the very beginning. ;) I like your blog a lot too!
LOVE making homemade spice blends. I can nearly smell this!
The smell is fabulous, especially with freshly ground nutmeg!
I love making my own spice mixtures as well! However, I’ve never made pumpkin spice. This sounds like a keeper! Beautiful pics!
Thanks MJ!
Well this is definitely a handy recipe to keep on hand. Thanks for sharing it and saving all of us a few bucks at the grocery store.
Absolutely! You could also scale back the recipe if you don’t want quite as much.
This is wonderful. I haven’t been able to find pumpkin pie mix in Australia so this will be great. Now to make my own pumpkin puree…
I could be wrong, but if you can find pumpkins, I think you can probably just peel, seed, boil/steam and puree?
Of course I saw this recipe AFTER buying an albeit small jar of pumpkin pie spice! I’ll use it up & keep your recipe on my file cuz I’m all about saving money. Also I can’t believe ppl asked to see your trash can!
Hehe, it was a joke. No one really wanted to see my trash can :)
Can I just say I randomly found your blog and I loove that you made your own pumpkin pie spice? And you made the spices look like little pieces of art. Fantastic! I’m definitely a follower ;)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Glad to be following you as well on Twitter :)
Ooooh love this idea of making your own pumpkin pie spice! I found you over at Taste and Tell!
Thank you! It is so tasty.
Love the picture of the spices!
And saw you on Deborah’s site today :)
Thanks Averie! I still can’t believe she wanted to feature me! So fun!
Being that I practically DRINK pumpkin pie spice ,I love this recipe!! I find myself using it in almost every single recipe I have!
It is good stuff, isn’t it? Now that I have this homemade mix, I want to use it even more often.
What a great idea!! And I love your cute little label!!!
Oh boy. I’m such a bad “artist.” Thanks though!
This is so much better than the store-bought version, particularly with that freshly ground nutmeg. You’re so right about never going back to the pre-ground version once you’ve ground your own nutmeg.
Yup, there is no comparison. Fresh ground is SO much better.
Stirred into your oats sounds perfect! I should get up and toss this right away!
I think I’m going to have it on oatmeal tomorrow!
Your little homemade wrapper for the jar is the cutest :) Next time I’m out of pumpkin pie spice I’m definitely making it from scratch.
Thanks :) Let me know how you like it! I saw some recipes with cardamom too.
Perfect! Much nicer to make your own, and you can adjust for personal tastes too.
Exactly! I saw some with cardamom in them too, but I didn’t have any.
What about snorting the spice? Is that accepted among human beings? No? Yes?
looks. awesome.
Let me know how that works out for you, Bev! ;)
what a wonderful idea. I wish I would have thought of it. I love pumpkin spice and you want to know a secret- i use it even when its the middle of summer. I just can’t get away from it! great post!
Summer use is perfectly acceptable, in fact, now I’m trying to figure out why I don’t use use it year-round!
Great post, Rachel. I like to put pumpkin pie spice on applesauce. Penzey’s sells empty spice jars for situations like this, and they’re like less than $2. I use them for taco seasoning and BBQ rub, and yeah, labels are important because my husband put taco seasoning on something we were going to barbecue this summer!
Haha, whoops! I’m thinking that might be kind of good though! What were you grilling?
Country-style pork strips. We did the only logical thing: grilled them, then cut them up and put them in tacos!
Ooo yay I should do this. I’m very intrigued by what you have coming Friday…and for the pictures of the inside of your fridge!
The photos will be on Taste and Tell around two. I’ll throw up a link when her post goes lives :)
I love making my own spice mixtures! Thanks for posting this one- I was hesitant to buy pumpkin pie spice, but I have all these ingredients!
-Miriam
Yeah–It’s great in a pinch, but I don’t think I’ll ever go back now!
Awesome! I usually make my own impromptu pumpkin pie spice blend whenever a recipe calls for one, so it’s good to have an actual recipe to follow! :-) Also I just shared your taco seasoning recipe with a friend who was fretting about not being able to find taco seasoning in Israel :-)
Awesome, thanks!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing the inside of your trash can! lol…no seriously…I too am all about homemade seasoning blends. I always make my own taco seasonings too. :)
You’re welcome! See, I knew people were dying for a trash can shot ;)