Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

Salted Caramel Hot Chocolates are one of my favourite treats in the fall- the taste of the chocolate is made a hundred times tastier with a little dash of salt. That being said, my favourite part of salted caramel hot chocolates… are the salted caramel tops!  So I wanted to let you in on the way to get a perfectly delicious salted caramel top :)

Once you’ve made your favourite hot chocolate recipe (I totally recommend this Belgian Hot Chocolate Recipe, holy yum!), mix up some whipped cream. I love making mine at home, even just for a small cup, and if you make yours on your own you can make it more delicious by adding a half shot of your favourite flavour syrup to the whipped cream. Make sure you add the syrup slowly, and make sure you don’t over flavour it, better to have a hint of flavour than a batch you can’t use!

Making caramel, cinnamon or mocha whipped cream for chocolate drinks is super tasty!

To get the caramel top just right you’ll want a mix of sweet and salty, and I find that mixing turbinado sugar (also known as raw sugar) and sea salt gets the taste just right.

This is my magic ratio:

The nice thing is that the sugar and sea salt crystals are about the same size so they’re easy to mix at home. If you’d like it to taste even a little more like it would at your favourite coffee shop? Track down some smoked sea salt and use it as a highlight to your normal sea salt.

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Confession: As much as I love fancy hot chocolates, my second favourite kind is cheap hot chocolate! If I can’t get a fancy, fluffy sweet perfect cup, I’m all about the powdery, community club hockey arena grade hot chocolate.

But “don’t properly mix the powder into the milk” doesn’t make much of a recipe post ;)