# Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 4 x 24g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.00 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte-instant-coffee-limited-edition-4-x-24g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte-instant-coffee-limited-edition-4-x-24g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Starbucks **Price:** £3.00 GBP **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **GTIN:** 8445291709096 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee is the seasonal coffee-shop drink in a tear-open sachet, four 24g sachets to the pack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the autumn treat you can make with a kettle instead of a queue.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. It is a Limited Edition pack, so it comes with the autumn and goes again; if you want it, buy it while it is here rather than in February.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee is the sachet version of the drink that starts the autumn queue in the coffee shops, made up at home with a kettle and a mug. Four sachets to a pack, one mug from each, and the pack carries a Limited Edition flash that on this product is not marketing language. It appears in the autumn and it goes again. We have listed it because people ask for it by name from September onwards and then cannot find it in February. If you want it, buy it while it is on the shelf. There is nothing complicated in the pack: instant coffee, a milk element and a warm spice flavouring, mixed so that the whole drink comes out of one tear-open strip and the kettle does the rest. The Taste Profile Spice: ●●●●○ (4/5) Cinnamon-led warm baking spice. This is the signature of the drink and the whole reason to buy the pack. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) A sweet drink by design. If you take coffee unsweetened, this is not your pack. Coffee: ●●○○○ (2/5) Present but not the lead. The coffee is here to carry the spice rather than the other way round. Body: ●●●○○ (3/5) Creamy for a sachet, lighter than a counter latte built on steamed milk. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Starbucks Starbucks is a coffee house chain first and a grocery brand second. The retail packs exist so that a version of the counter drink can live in a kitchen cupboard, which gives them a narrow brief: taste close enough to the shop order that buying it for the house feels like the same decision. The Pumpkin Spice Latte is the most recognisable seasonal drink the chain sells, so it is the obvious one to put in a sachet. A word about the name, because it misleads people every autumn. Pumpkin spice describes the spice mix that goes into a pumpkin pie, not a promise of pumpkin in your mug. Cinnamon does most of the work, with the rest of the warm baking spices behind it. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Count: four sachets. Four mugs, no more, so treat it as a fortnight of Saturdays rather than a week of mornings. Sachet size: 24g each, which is a substantial sachet. The pack therefore holds 96g of mix in total. That multiplication is ours, from the pack format, not a figure printed on the front. Season: Limited Edition. Stock is what we can buy, and when the autumn packs stop coming the listing goes quiet until the following year. What it is not: not a machine pod, not a syrup, and not a decaf. It is a single-serve powder mix and it needs nothing but hot water. How Does Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g Compare to: Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte, 5 Sachets 117.5g: the closest thing we stock all year round. Cinnamon Dolce is the cleaner, more single-minded cinnamon drink; Pumpkin Spice carries a broader spread of baking spice behind it. If you like the seasonal one and cannot get it, this is the substitute we would hand you. Starbucks Toffee Nut Latte, 4 Sachets 92g: same brand, same four-sachet format, sweet in a different direction. Toffee Nut is confectionery sweetness; Pumpkin Spice is spice-led sweetness. Neither is subtle, and which you prefer is a matter of whether you want a biscuit note or a spice note. Starbucks Vanilla Latte, 5 Sachets 107.5g: the plainest of the Starbucks sachets and the one to buy if the spice is too much. Vanilla sits quietly behind the coffee where Pumpkin Spice sits in front of it. Ideal Serving Conditions A powder sachet is not a brew, it is a rehydration, and almost every complaint about these packs comes down to water that was too hot or a mug that was too big. The milk element in a latte sachet does not enjoy a rolling boil; poured straight off the kettle it can turn grainy and the spice loses its lift. Thirty seconds of patience is the whole fix. The Standard Mug Water: let the kettle stand for about half a minute after it clicks, so you are pouring at roughly 90 degrees Celsius. Volume: around 180ml, which is less than a big mug holds. Filling a 300ml mug to the brim is the single most common way to make this drink taste thin. Order: powder in first, then a small splash of hot water. Stir that to a smooth paste before the rest of the water goes in and you will not find powder at the bottom. Stir: properly, for a good few seconds. The foam builds as you stir, not as you pour. If You Want It Richer, Or Colder Richer: make the paste with 40ml of hot water, then top with 140ml of hot milk instead of more water. The sachet already carries a milk element, so this doubles it rather than replacing it. Iced: paste with 50ml of hot water, stir until completely smooth, then pour over a full glass of ice and top with cold milk. Do not try to dissolve it in cold water; it will not go. Spiced up: a grating of fresh nutmeg on the foam costs nothing and sharpens a mix that is deliberately rounded. Getting It Right in the Cup Water temperature: around 90 degrees Celsius. This is our serving recommendation, not a pack instruction. Measure: one whole sachet per mug. These are not designed to be split, and half a sachet makes a poor drink rather than a lighter one. Volume: 180ml. Treat the mug size as part of the recipe. Sugar: do not add any until you have tasted it. The mix is sweetened already. Storage: keep the sachets sealed and dry in a cupboard. Any instant powder pulls moisture out of the air, and a damp sachet clumps and tastes flat. Best with: an afternoon, a cold walk, a slice of something with cinnamon in it, or the first genuinely dark evening of the year. Safety And Purity Caffeine note: this is a caffeinated coffee drink. A sweet, milky sachet is not a low-caffeine one, and taste is a poor guide either way. Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Allergen note: a latte sachet is a milk drink, and the current pack states whether that milk element is dairy milk powder or a non-dairy whitener. Anyone avoiding dairy, or managing any other allergen, should read the pack rather than take our word for the category. The nutrition panel on the current pack is the authority on the numbers. Child safety: caffeinated products are not suitable for younger children, and this one looks and smells like a pudding. Keep it out of reach. ## Product Questions Is there actually pumpkin in Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte?Pumpkin spice is the name of the spice mix used in pumpkin pie rather than a promise of pumpkin in the mug. What you taste is warm baking spice, cinnamon leading. Whether anything pumpkin-derived is in this particular sachet is a question for the ingredient list on the current UK pack, and that is the only place we would trust for an answer.How many drinks are in the pack?Four. Four sachets of 24g each, one mug from each sachet, so 96g of mix in total. That is a small pack by instant coffee standards and it is meant to be: this is a seasonal treat rather than the jar you work through on weekday mornings.How do I make it properly?Empty one sachet into a mug, add a small splash of hot water and stir it to a smooth paste, then top up to around 180ml and stir again. Let the kettle stand for half a minute first so you are pouring at roughly 90 degrees rather than straight off the boil. That is our serving recommendation; the pack carries its own directions and they take precedence.Do I need to add milk?No. The sachet already carries its own milk element, so water alone gives you the intended drink. If you want it richer, make the paste with 40ml of hot water and top with 140ml of hot milk instead of more water. That doubles the milk rather than replacing it.Is it sweet, and can I make it less sweet?It is sweet, deliberately. The drink it copies is a sweet one. You cannot take sugar back out of a mix, but you can dilute the effect: use a little more water, or a lot more milk, and the sweetness reads softer. If you want a coffee sachet that is not sweetened at all, an unsweetened cappuccino sachet is the pack to look at instead.How much caffeine is in it?It is a caffeinated coffee drink.Can I make it iced?Yes, and it works well. Make a paste with 50ml of hot water, stir until it is completely smooth, then pour it over a tall glass of ice and top with cold milk. Do not try to dissolve the powder straight into cold liquid; it clumps and you will be fishing lumps out with a spoon.What does Limited Edition actually mean here?That the pack is made for a season and then stops. It arrives with the autumn range and disappears again, and our stock is whatever we were able to buy while it was being made. If it matters to you, buy it while the listing is live rather than assuming it will be there in the spring.Can I split a sachet to make a weaker drink?You can, but it rarely gives what people expect. The mix is blended as one dose, so half a sachet makes a thin, slightly odd drink rather than a lighter version of the same one. Use the whole sachet in a larger mug if you want it gentler.How should I store the sachets?Sealed, dry and in a cupboard rather than next to the kettle. Instant powders are hygroscopic, meaning they pull moisture out of the air, and a sachet that has taken on damp will clump and taste flat. Unopened sachets keep well; the best-before date on the pack is the one to follow.What else should I look at if I like this?Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte is the year-round drink closest to it and the substitute we would hand you when the seasonal pack has gone. Starbucks Toffee Nut Latte is the same four-sachet format sweetened in a confectionery direction instead of a spiced one, and Starbucks Vanilla Latte is the quietest of the three if the spice turns out to be too much. ## Ingredients & Nutrition IngredientProportionWhat it bringsPack: Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g; four 24g sachets, 96g of mix in total, one mug per sachet. Caffeinated. Follow the best-before date on the pack.Characterising components are shown by category. The ingredient list and quantitative declarations printed on the current UK pack are the authority, not this table.Sourcing & blend. Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g is a retail pack from Starbucks, a coffee house chain whose grocery range exists to put a version of the counter drink into a kitchen cupboard. Green coffee origin, bean ratio and the composition of the spice flavouring are not declared to us, so we do not describe them. We have run no brewing trials on this product; what follows is our own editorial assessment of the pack format and the brand's published description.What's in Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g:In: a single-serve powder mix of instant coffee, a milk or whitener component, a sweetening component and a warm baking spice flavouring, made up with hot water alone. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains why the mug tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow. A sachet like this is not brewed, it is reconstituted, so every one of those layers was fixed at the factory and your job is only to release them without damaging them.The outer layer is aromatic, and on this product it is almost entirely spice. Cinnamon and the warm baking spices behind it are carried on volatile compounds that lift as soon as hot water hits the powder, which is why the smell of the mug arrives a full second before the taste and why it is strongest in the first thirty seconds. Roasted coffee contributes aromatics of its own, but in a flavoured latte mix they sit underneath. That ordering is deliberate. A cup left to stand smells noticeably flatter while tasting much the same, because the aroma layer is the one that leaves first.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and here sweetness and spice move together. The sweetening component is not a garnish on this drink, it is structural: warm baking spice read against a dry background tastes thin and slightly dusty, and it is sugar that gives it the round, pie-like quality the drink is named for. The coffee shows up underneath as a light roasted bitterness that stops the whole thing collapsing into confectionery. This is the densest part of the mug and the part that a larger mug of water dilutes fastest, which is the single most common reason a sachet drink disappoints.The base structure is the finish, and it belongs to the milk element. It is a soft, creamy, slightly coating note that holds the spice on the palate after the liquid has gone and then fades cleanly. This is why the drink reads as a latte rather than as a spiced black coffee, and why it is more satisfying at 180ml than at 300ml. A well made mug should still taste of spice on the last mouthful rather than only on the first.Getting it right in the cup. Use one whole sachet in about 180ml of water at roughly 90 degrees Celsius, which means letting the kettle stand for half a minute after it clicks. Powder in first, a small splash of water, stir to a smooth paste, then top up and stir again; dissolving in stages is what stops the gritty mouthful at the bottom and it is also what builds the foam. Do not split a sachet to make a weaker drink, because the mix is blended as one dose and half of it tastes wrong rather than lighter. Cold makes no difference to a mix that is already fully extracted, so an iced version is made hot and then poured over ice, never dissolved in cold water. Store the sachets sealed and dry; instant powder pulls moisture out of the air, and a damp sachet clumps and tastes dull.How water and temperature change it. The same sachet gives a measurably different mug depending on how you treat the water, and on this product the variable that matters most is not temperature but volume. At 180ml the spice, sweetness and cream are in the balance the mix was built for; at 250ml the spice thins first and the drink reads watery and oddly sweet. Temperature acts on texture rather than flavour: water straight off a rolling boil can make the milk element turn grainy and take the edge off the aroma, while water that has stood too long leaves powder undissolved at the bottom. Hard tap water flattens the brighter top notes of the spice slightly, so in a hard water area a slightly smaller mug restores the balance better than a hotter kettle does. None of this is a fault in the mix; it is a fixed recipe responding to the cup you build around it, and once you have found your mug the result repeats every time. ## Recipe Ideas Starbucks 4 x Pumpkin Spice Latte Instant Coffee, Limited Edition, 24g is a fixed recipe in a strip, so the interesting work is in what you build around it rather than in how you brew it. Six builds below, starting with the mug the sachet was designed for and ending with two that use it as a baking ingredient. Recipes, born here first The Standard Mug How to make The Standard Mug with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 2 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 180ml hot water, about 90°C A spoon, and a mug smaller than you think Method Tip the whole sachet into the mug and add a splash of the hot water, about 40ml. Stir to a smooth paste before adding anything else. This is the step people skip and then complain about. Top up to roughly 180ml and stir again for a few seconds to build the foam. What you'll end up with: The drink as designed. Keep the mug small; volume is what dilutes this one, not temperature. The Richer Mug, Made With Milk How to make The Richer Mug, Made With Milk with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 3 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 40ml hot water 140ml hot milk, dairy or oat Fresh nutmeg to grate over Method Paste the sachet with 40ml of hot water until completely smooth. Heat 140ml of milk and pour it in, holding back the foam with a spoon and spooning it on last. Grate a little fresh nutmeg over the top. What you'll end up with: A heavier, rounder drink. The sachet already carries a milk element, so this doubles it rather than replacing it. Oat milk suits the spice better than almond, which thins it. Iced Pumpkin Spice Latte How to make Iced Pumpkin Spice Latte with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 5 min 1 tall glass Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 50ml hot water A full glass of ice 150ml cold milk Method Dissolve the sachet in 50ml of hot water and stir until there is nothing gritty left at all. Cool it for a minute so it does not melt the ice on contact. Pour over a full glass of ice and top with cold milk. What you'll end up with: The version that works all through a warm September. Never try to dissolve the powder in cold liquid; it clumps and stays clumped. Pumpkin Spice Affogato How to make Pumpkin Spice Affogato with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 3 min 1 bowl Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 60ml hot water 2 scoops vanilla ice cream Method Mix the sachet with only 60ml of hot water, so you have a thick, strongly spiced pour rather than a drink. Scoop two balls of vanilla ice cream into a cold bowl. Pour the hot mix straight over the top and eat it immediately. What you'll end up with: A pudding out of a sachet, and the best use of the last one in the box. The sweetness that can feel heavy in a mug is exactly right here. Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats How to make Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 5 min + overnight 1 bowl Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 50ml hot water 50g porridge oats 120ml cold milk Method Dissolve the sachet in 50ml of hot water and let it cool for five minutes. Stir it through 50g of oats with 120ml of cold milk in a jar. Chill overnight and eat cold. It needs no extra sugar. What you'll end up with: Breakfast that tastes like the drink. The sachet is already sweetened, so this is one of the few overnight oats recipes that needs nothing adding. Spiced Coffee Loaf Glaze How to make Spiced Coffee Loaf Glaze with Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. 10 min 1 loaf Easy You'll need 1 sachet Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 2 tablespoons boiling water 150g icing sugar 1 plain loaf cake, cooled Method Dissolve the sachet in 2 tablespoons of boiling water to make a thick, dark paste. Beat it into 150g of sifted icing sugar, a little at a time, until it pours slowly off the spoon. Pour over a cooled plain loaf cake and leave it to set for half an hour. What you'll end up with: A spiced coffee glaze with no separate spice jars to buy. Worth doing with the sachet that is left when the pack has gone out of season. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._