Where to get your pumpkin spice fix in Las Vegas
Sure, you can get a pumpkin-spice latte — at Starbucks and a whole bunch of other coffee shops in the Las Vegas valley. But you don’t have to confine your autumnal pumpkin-spice binge to coffee, as local businesses and national manufacturers are releasing pumpkin-spice-flavored just-about-anything.
Locally, the buffet at Treasure Island is serving pumpkin-spice brownies and mousse. The Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden locations across the valley are serving pumpkin cheesecake. Lazy Dog at Downtown Summerlin will begin serving pumpkin-spice cheesecake late next week, and Claim Jumper outlets soon will serve a pumpkin-spice cream-cheese pie. Sprinkles Cupcakes at The Linq will have pumpkin-spice cupcakes and ice cream, but you’ll have to wait until Nov. 1. And if you’d prefer to drink your pumpkin, Andrea’s at Encore will begin serving a pumpkin-spice martini in a couple of weeks, and the Veranda restaurant at the Four Seasons soon will introduce the Pumpkin Head cocktail.
The following products are available in local supermarkets and big-box stores or online. While most officially will be on shelves through the end of the fall season, keep in mind that quantities generally are limited. Also, sometimes availability is a little unexpected; for instance, Pumpkin Spice Latte M&M’s are available at Walgreens and Walmart stores, but not at M&M’s World on the Strip.
Here are 20 to keep an eye out for:
Barbara’s Puffins
Coffee-Mate
Food Should Taste Good tortilla chips
Frosted Mini-Wheats
Hershey’s Kisses
It’s It ice-cream sandwiches
Kahlua
Kashi Crunchy Flax Granola Bars
Nestle Toll House morsels
Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough
Noosa yogurt
Nonni’s Biscotti
Oreos
Peeps Dipped Marshmallow Chicks
Pepperidge Farm cheesecake cookies
Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread
Planter’s Almonds
Republic of Spice black tea
Thomas’ English Muffins
And finally, Williams-Sonoma, which has stores at The District at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson and at 1001 S. Rampart Blvd., seems to be Ground Zero for all things pumpkin-spice, with pumpkin-seed brittle, quick-bread mix, chocolate-chunk quick-bread mix, toffee-swirled quick-bread mix, cookie mix, cake mix, pancake mix, doughnut mix, coffee cake mix and caramels, as well as pumpkin butter.
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