October 27th, 2011
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.
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 ;)
I love making my own whipped cream! It’s so easy and delicious!
I love salted caramel hot chocolate! I like to add smoked salt, which somehow makes it even better!
Oooo nom nom!!! This sounds great! But you simply must try some Himalayan pink salt. I get mine from Sustainable Sourcing https://secure.sustainablesourcing.com. The flavor is so much better than regular salt! Thanks for sharing this recipe—I can’t wait to try it!
I love hot chocolates! I don’t drink coffee, so hot chocolates are my alternatives, and sometimes tea. I like the cheap kind of hot chocolates as well. And I like them oh! sooo sweet. Hehe. The fancy hot chocolate I’ve had was the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity. There’s a café/store in NY but they sell packaged ones as well and my friend gave us a couple to try. It was sooo good! It was like dessert. So delicious! :)
I love salted caramel hot chocolates. I just wish it was cold enough to properly enjoy them. Here in GA its been in the high 80s. So drinking hot chocolate while driving with the windows down just doesn’t have the same effect….
Caramel craving has begun.
I’ll all about the Cocomotion! Makes perfect hot cocoa, every time!
Mmmmmm!
You got me hooooked! :)
I tried my first ever salted hot beverage the other day and I am in love. Thanks for the “how-to” for home. I must go buy supplies and make this tonight!
Love hot cocoa…and I love salt + chocolate, always a good choice!
Man, I’ve never had that but it looks amazing. I love salt with chocolate, gives it so much more flavor! :)
Why have I never thought of this before- YUM! Thanks so much for the idea… just another inspiring thing I have learned here!
This looks so mega super delish. I want!
I desperately want a hot chocolate now–yum. One of my goals for next month is to find a hot chocolate recipe that works with soya milk and dark chocolate to protect my lactose-intolerant tummy!
I must drink this. My favorite drink is a caramel mochiatto.
I had my first salted caramel mocha of the season the other day and was trying to remember the trick for making the tops at home. Thank you for sharing this!
I now have a massive craving for hot chocolate. This looks brilliant. I’m going to have to give it a try!