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Starbucks-Style Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte

Recreate your favorite Starbucks drink at home with this copycat recipe for a Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte. This recipe includes instructions for making your own pumpkin spice sauce and pumpkin cream cold foam.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Cooling Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 1 drink
Course: Beverage
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

For the Chai Tea Latte
  • 3 oz Chai tea concentrate
  • 4 oz 2% milk
  • 3 oz Pumpkin cream cold foam recipe below
For the Pumpkin Cream Cold Foam
  • 3/4 cup 2% milk
  • 1/4 cup Heavy cream
  • 2 1/2 tablespoon Pumpkin spice sauce store-bought or recipe below
  • 2 teaspoon Vanilla syrup store-bought or linked recipe, can substitute with 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Pumpkin Spice Sauce
  • 1 14 oz can Fat-free sweetened condensed milk use regular if you can't find fat-free
  • 1 cup Pumpkin puree
  • 1 tablespoon Pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Equipment

  • Glass
  • Mason jar
  • Electric frother
  • saucepan

Method
 

  1. Add chai tea concentrate to an ice-filled glass. Pour milk into glass.
  2. Top drink with pumpkin cream cold foam and sprinkle pumpkin pie spice over the top.
  3. Pumpkin Cream Cold Foam: Mix milk, cream, vanilla syrup, and pumpkin spice sauce in a mason jar and shake to combine. Alternatively, you can stir all ingredients together in a bowl. If you're not using right away, keep in an airtight container in the fridge.
  4. Turn mixture into cold foam right before using. Use an electric frother, hand mixer, or blender to froth, mix, or blend until the mixture turns into a foam. Alternatively, shake the mixture in a mason jar until it's frothy.
  5. Pumpkin Spice Sauce: Put condensed milk in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, along with pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and salt.
  6. Stir together and heat for about 5 minutes, until it's just starting to bubble.
  7. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Pour the pumpkin spice sauce into a heat-proof jar or bowl and place in the fridge to cool.

Notes

If you want to make your own vanilla syrup, you can use a separate recipe. If you don't have vanilla syrup, substitute with 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. This recipe makes enough pumpkin spice sauce for about 8 lattes. Each batch of pumpkin cream cold foam is enough for 3 drinks. Store the cold cream in the fridge and whip into cold foam when ready to make a drink. For a more syrup-like pumpkin spice sauce, use a different recipe.

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