Starbucks has announced the exact date it will be bringing back its popular seasonal pumpkin spice lattes for 2025 – here’s how you can save money by recreating a PSL at home
It may only be August but here at the Mirror we’re already feeling autumnal, and nothing signals the start of this season quite like Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Lattes arriving back on their menu.
The giant coffee chain has announced that its Pumpkin Spice Lattes (commonly referred to as PSLs) – milky, sweet coffees with added flavours of pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon – will be available to order from 26 August, costing around the £4 mark. But if you want to save money – or try the drink before the 26th – it’s easy to copy the flavour at home with a homemade coffee. Here’s how…
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The easiest way to experience this autumnal taste at home is with a flavoured coffee pod. We love Grind’s Pumpkin Spice coffee pods, from £15.75 for 30 pods, not just for their flavour and aesthetic appeal, but also because they’re fully compostable at home. Of course, you’ll need the right coffee pod machine to use them – they’re compatible with Nespresso’s original machine, or Grind does its own very stylish-looking model (which we’ve reviewed here) – but, at just 53p a pod, it’s markedly cheaper than buying the Starbucks drink.
If you instead have a Nescafé Dolce Gusto machine at home, you can try something nearer in taste to the original thing with Starbucks’ own Pumpkin Spice Latte Coffee Pods, £4.75 for six at Sainsbury’s, or currently £3.50 if you have a Nectar card – so costing from 58p a drink. Sainsbury’s shoppers are describing these as “perfect for those colder nights, pumpkin and a hint of spice” and “tasty, not too sweet, just the right amount of spices”.
If you don’t have a coffee pod machine at home, another easy way to get the PSL experience at home is simply by adding a flavoured syrup into your regular coffee. You’ll find several options on Amazon, including popular brand MONIN’s Pumpkin Spice Syrup, currently £7.99, and zero-calorie Skinny Food Co Pumpkin Spice Coffee Syrup, £9.99, which has thousands of five-star reviews on the site.
If you want to up your at-home barista game even further, invest in a milk frother to create creamy lattes and cappuccinos in your own kitchen. We’ve had the Nespresso Aeroccino3 Milk Frother, £79, for years and if stills works brilliantly, or this little handheld battery-powered milk whisk, currently £5.09, does the job well too.
And if you are in the market for a new coffee machine, our beauty and wellness editor – and former Starbucks barista – Laura Mulley has given the Nespresso Vertuo a thorough review, praising what good quality coffees it makes.