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Homemade Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

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Learn how to make my Homemade Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate recipe so you can enjoy your favorite holiday drink at home!
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Last updated on November 11, 2019

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Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate - Now you know how to make it at home, saving you time, money and no doubt calories too.

Hi Bold Bakers!

Starbucks have nailed it with their Holiday-inspired drinks including crazy combinations that scream the holidays. They are all comfort in a 12oz cup. Whether you partake or not, few can resist these delicious drinks. However, now you can make your own Homemade Starbucks Drinks rather than making a trip to your local store. Let’s not forget the added bonus of knowing what goes into them, and it isn’t squirts of “caramel syrup.”

Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate is my go-to Starbucks drink. My waistline probably wishes it wasn’t but my eyes and stomach are all about it. With even more Salted Caramel on top, it just pushes this drink over the edge to heaven! Find the recipe here.

I always have a jar of Salted Caramel Sauce in the back of my fridge. Why? Because it transforms plain ice cream into an ice cream sundae, or regular Hot Chocolate into a decadent Hot Chocolate. I urge you to make some of my Salted Caramel Sauce so when friends drop by and you think you don’t have anything for dessert you can whip out your “secret weapon.”

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No matter what your favorite Starbucks drink, be it Peppermint Mocha, Pumpkin Spice Latte or this Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate now you know how to make it at home, saving time, money and no doubt calories too. Your wallets will thank me come January, trust me.

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Want even MORE Starbucks drinks? Check out my recipe for Peppermint Mocha and Pumpkin Spice Latte.

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Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

4.75 from 27 votes
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Learn how to make my Homemade Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate recipe so you can enjoy your favorite holiday drink at home!
Author: Gemma Stafford
Servings: 1 large mug
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 5 mins
Total Time 10 mins
Learn how to make my Homemade Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate recipe so you can enjoy your favorite holiday drink at home!
Author: Gemma Stafford
Servings: 1 large mug

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup (8oz/225g) milk
  • 4 oz Bittersweet chocolate , chopped
  • 2 tablespoons salted caramel sauce
  • whipped cream

Instructions

  • In a saucepan add in all of your ingredients.
  • Stir and bring the ingredients to a simmer.
  • Take the saucepan off the heat and pour into your mug. .
  • Decorate with freshly whipped cream and caramel on top. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

Multiply the recipe to make more then 1 mug.
You can replace the milk with a dairy free milk.

 

 

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sahana
sahana
1 year ago

Hi Gemma! I tried this after making your signature salted caramel sauce which was AMAZING!!!!!! However, I messed up on this recipe. The cocoa was too rich and bittersweet and masked the 2 tbsp of caramel. I used 100g of Lindt chocolate (70% cocoa). Then I tried adding more salted caramel sauce and I succeeded in getting the salted caramel flavour after adding several spoonfuls, but overall it ended up too sweet. Also, as it cooled down (because some of my family like the chilled version of caramel lattes), the sweetness became all the more pronounced… Should I add less… Read more »

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Lesa Baldwin
Lesa Baldwin
7 days ago

Hi Gemma! I have looked everywhere for bittersweet chocolate in the 72% cocoa. What brand do you use? I can’t wait to try this but want to have the correct % of cocoa to see how it tastes first.

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Tia
Tia
2 years ago

what temperature is it to make the drink on stove

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Priya Rajasekaran
Priya Rajasekaran
3 years ago

Can I use dark chocolate for bittersweet chocolate?

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Charolette
Charolette
3 years ago

Hello,
stumbled onto your web page. If I didn’t want the salted Carmel sauce and just regular hot chocolate; with I up my chocolate sauce? If so, how much?

Thank you.

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Trixie Brown
Trixie Brown
3 years ago

Hi Gemma,
Can I mix salted caramel filled chocolate with milk for this recipe? Please reply. Thanks.

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Nadine Lille
3 years ago

Just amazing and delicious! I made the Biscuits spread cheesecake and the salted caramel sauce to go with, and with the leftover sauce the hot chocolate. Had all 3 this afternoon and they all go so well together! Very yummy, thanks Gemma

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Vineet Dholwani
Vineet Dholwani
3 years ago

Can I use salt and caramel sauce separately in place of salted caramel sauce.
What would be the measurements then?

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Thuy
Thuy
4 years ago

I usually love Gemma’a recipe, but I found this one to be incredibly bitter and I didn’t even use 72%, only 62%.

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Armandas
Armandas
4 years ago

Can I use dulce de leche ?

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