Cocktails with Pumpkin spice syrup
Pumpkin spice syrup is a sweetened flavouring syrup of sugar and water infused with the warm baking-spice blend known as pumpkin pie spice.
Taste profile
Warm and sweet, dominated by baking-spice aroma — cinnamon and clove leading, with nutmeg and ginger behind — over a full, sugary body.
How it's used
Sweetening and aromatic-flavouring in one, it is stirred or shaken into the build and dosed by the small measure; a little accents a drink, more makes the spice the defining note.
Substitutes for Pumpkin spice syrup
As a light accent, a plain sugar syrup with a pinch of mixed baking spice will pass; where the spice is the drink's defining flavour, an unflavoured sweetener cannot stand in because it preserves the sweetness but loses the warm baking-spice aroma.
Often confused with
Pumpkin pie spice (dry spice blend)
Pumpkin spice syrup is a liquid sweetener, while pumpkin pie spice is the dry ground-spice mixture that flavours it. The syrup adds sweetness and body along with aroma; the dry blend contributes only aroma and no sugar or liquid volume.
