9 Hot Fall Drinks to Warm Up

At snack time, hot drinks are perfect to accompany a slice of seasonal pie or autumn crumble. In addition to being delicious, they have a calming effect on our morale. Exactly what we need during the fall period, the ultimate cocooning season. It must be said that autumn is full of products synonymous with warmth and comfort, such as chocolate, pumpkin and even nuts. A good reason to prepare your favorite hot drink to chill out.

The best hot drinks for fall

The pumpkin spice latte

This squash-based café latte has, in recent years, become the emblematic drink of fall.
For the record, it is the Starbucks coffee chain which is at the origin. Marketed for the first time in 2003, the original recipe consisted of coffee and spices (the famous “pumpkin spice” mixture made from cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves). You read correctly, the famous pumkin latte did not contain any trace of the famous cucurbit. It was only in 2015 that the latter truly found its place in the recipe, in the form of pumpkin syrup.
Today, the pumpkin spice latte is the brand’s most popular seasonal drink. A success due in particular to its spicy and comforting flavor, as well as its bright orange color.

Golden milk

Coming from traditional Ayurvedic medicine, this turmeric milk has many more benefits. Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying for the liver, and strengthening the immune system… We can no longer count its many virtues! Its merits have even been praised by Gwyneth Paltrow, a great fan of alternative medicine. With its many spices, golden milk seems, in fact, a good ally for boosting our immune defenses. Just what we need when temperatures drop.
To make it at home, you mainly need vegetable milk and turmeric. Cinnamon, ginger and pepper are then added to enhance its effects.

Authentic Mexican hot chocolate

Forget powdered chocolate, here we tell you about a traditional recipe from Mexico, made from cocoa beans, water, milk, hominy (dry corn kernels cooked in an alkaline solution) and ‘spices. Champurrado, ancestor of hot chocolate, was mainly consumed in the morning or at the end of meals.
Very different from the drink we know today, its thick texture and cinnamon notes are very comforting.

The London Fog

This drink was created thanks to Mary Loria, a Canadian who wanted to give up coffee.
She ordered tea and asked for it to be brewed in milk. She then added a sachet of vanilla sugar. This sweet and delicious drink then became her favorite, to the point that she began to share it with everyone she knew. Naturally, the London fog then became popular across Canada and even crossed its borders.
This recipe is therefore not at all English, contrary to what the name might suggest. London fog actually means “the fog of London”, in reference to the milk foam that covers a typically English tea.
We can say that this misty drink goes quite well with the autumn grayness.