After going to Urth Caffe recently where I had their fabulous honey vanilla latte, I thought to myself, why not make it at home?

The funny thing, after searching google and pinterest, almost NO ONE had any honey vanilla latte recipes!  All of them were for chai tea or other tea lattes.  This one is with coffee. 

Honey Vanilla Latte Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of very strong coffee (or 1 pod of Nespresso)
• 1 1/2 tsp of honey
• 1/2 cup of hot skim milk
• 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Brew your very strong coffee.  When the coffee is very hot, add the honey and stir.  The hot coffee will dissolve the honey. Then add the vanilla.
2. Heat up your milk, either on the stovetop until just frothy or in the microwave in 30 second increments.  (If you want to have lots of froth like my pictures, use a milk frother.)
3. Add your milk to your coffee and stir.  Enjoy!

ICED HONEY VANILLA LATTE:

To make an iced latte, don’t heat up the milk.  Instead mix in cold milk, then pour the latte over ice cubes.

Honey Vanilla Latte recipe – Urth copycat

This recipe I suppose is an Urth caffe copycat, except I can’t do fancy latte art.

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I updated my pumpkin spice latte recipe.  I posted one last year, but after some trials through the season I’ve altered it.  I can’t keep going to Starbucks (I said that last year too!).     

copycat pumpkin spice latte recipe

Copycat Pumpkin Spice Latte

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup fat free milk
• 3/4 tablespoon canned pumpkin
• 1-2 packet of sweetener or sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (or 1/2 tsp for a spicier drink)
• 1/2 cup strongly brewed coffee (or 1 nespresso pod, either lungo or regular)
• Whipped cream, optional

Instructions

1. In a saucepan, whisk together milk, pumpkin, and sugar/sweetener on medium heat.
2. Once steaming, mix in vanilla and pumpkin pie spice.  Whisk quickly so it develops a nice foam.
3. Add to brewed coffee.
4. Add whipped cream to the top (optional), with a dash of pumpkin pie spice.

I estimate the calories to be around 60-70 with this cup of pumpkin spice latte!

copycat pumpkin spice latte

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Are you addicted to Starbucks’ Caramel Macchiato?

Delicious!

Yeah, me too.  I find myself going to Starbucks just to get this drink these days so I thought… why not make my own?

I’ve watched them make it a hundred times.  It’s not that hard to make.

see one, do one, teach one.

All you need is…

Vanilla Syrup
Milk
Espresso
Caramel drizzle

I’ve included two recipes to make this:

The ORIGINAL recipe (that I’ve seen made a hundred times) is this:

• 3 pumps of vanilla syrup 
• milk
• 1-2 shots of espresso (depending on your size tall =1 shot, grande =2)
• caramel drizzle.

1. Add 3 pumps of vanilla syrup to your cup.  Steam the milk.  Pour milk into cup.
2. Add the espresso to the top of the foamed milk.
3. Add caramel drizzle to the top in a criss-cross pattern until you are satisfied. DONE!

This graphic demonstrates the layers.

My recipe

My recipe!

• 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 pack splenda
• 1 cup milk
• 1 shot espresso
• caramel sauce (I used Ghirardelli’s but the Smucker’s ice cream topper should work too)

1. Steam your milk and froth it either with a frother or whip it up yourself and then pour into cup. Add the vanilla and splenda to the milk and stir.
2. Add the espresso to the top. (For Nespresso users: I used the purple Arpeggio pod. Keurig users: 1/2 cup really dark coffee).
3. Add the caramel sauce to the top. Done!
get the printable recipe here

yummy!

Some recipes ask you to make your own vanilla syrup.  I am too lazy to do that and feel like this is a nice alternative. You could always go buy Starbuck’s vanilla syrup too.  I might just do that.

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copycat Starbucks Caramel Macchiato recipe

Nespresso Caramel Macchiato recipe

DIY caramel macchiato recipe

homemade Starbucks caramel macchiato recipe

  Just featured at the Grant Life for “Easy Christmas Desserts!” So excited!

Easy DIY Eggnog Latte Recipe

Eggnog lattes are my favorite Christmas drink.  All of your favorite coffee shops charge $4-$5 for one.

They also have 400 calories in them too.

Not this one.

INGREDIENTS: PRINTABLE RECIPE HERE
– 1/4 cup of eggnog (either full fat or light fat)
– 3/4 cup of milk (either non fat, 1%, or 2%)
– Strong coffee
– Nutmeg for drizzle

For non-Nespresso users:

1. Brew 1/2 cup of strong dark coffee.
2. In the meantime, heat milk and eggnog together in the microwave until warm.  Whisk quickly to create a foam on top. 
3. Mix the milk/eggnog and coffee together.  Adjust amount of eggnog to your own taste.
4. Drizzle nutmeg on top. Enjoy!

For Nespresso users:

1. Choose a pod type. To make the latte exactly as pictured I used the blue lungo, Vivalto.  I usually prefer the purple regular one, Arpeggio.
2. Add eggnog and milk to the Aeroccino.
3. Mix the two.
4. Drizzle nutmeg on top. Enjoy!

To make the eggnog latte a bit more calorie friendly, use either less eggnog, use low-fat eggnog, as well as using non-fat milk.

This homemade eggnog latte is delicious, budget friendly, and friendlier to your waist line!