Make this tasty Starbucks drink at home. Refreshing cold brew coffee sweetened with caramel and topped with a salted caramel cold foam. It’s surprisingly easy to make it at home, even the cold foam!
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Starbucks Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew
Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew is a Starbucks cold coffee drink made with ice, cold brew coffee, salted vanilla sweet cream, and caramel syrup.
The drink is topped with a lightly salted cold foam, making the drink sweet and salty.
Recipe Highlights
- To make cold brew, Starbucks steeps ground coffee in cold water for 20 hours. This recipe uses the same method, using Starbucks cold brew pitcher packs.
- Perfect cold foam is easily made at home using a French press! It’s flavored with caramel and salt to make it perfectly sweet and salty.
- This copycat drink recreates the Starbucks recipe so it’s as close to their version as possible. This recipe makes a grande (16 ounces) Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew.
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Ingredient Notes
- Cold brew coffee
To get the flavor as close to Starbucks as possible, use their cold brew pitcher packs. Just pop a pitcher pack into water and put it in the refrigerator for 20-24 hours. Easy! - Caramel sauce
I always use store-bought caramel sauce since homemade is a pain. I like this brand since it’s not as thick as others and makes it easier to stir into the cold drink. - Half & half
This is my shortcut to making cold foam since half & half is half cream and half milk, I can use one ingredient instead of two. - Vanilla syrup
Use store-bought or homemade vanilla syrup. Homemade is pretty quick and easy to make, so give that a try! This is added to the cold foam to make it a salted vanilla sweet cream cold foam. - Sea salt
This adds the salted part to salted caramel and it’s used in the cold foam only. - Ice
If possible, use filtered water to make ice.
Step-by-Step Instructions
For full ingredients and instructions, scroll down to the recipe.
- Combine half & half, vanilla syrup, and salt in a French press. Pump the French press plunger.
This makes the vanilla sweet cream cold foam. Set aside. - Pour caramel sauce into a cup.
- Add cold brew.
- Top with cold foam.
Stir before drinking.
Expert Tips
- If you don’t have a French press, you can shake the cold foam ingredients together in a cocktail shaker or a jar with a tight lid but it’ll take a little bit more work.
- You can use any kind of cold brew coffee you like but to get it to taste most like Starbucks, use their cold brew blend, which includes coffee from Nariño, Colombia.
- The vanilla syrup and cold brew coffee can both be made ahead of time. The cold foam is best when it’s made right before assembling the drink.
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Questions You May Have
Cold brew coffee is made using cold water but iced coffee is made using hot coffee that’s cooled down.
There’s more caffeine in cold brew than iced coffee.
You can, but it won’t taste exactly the same as using cold brew. Make strong, hot coffee, then cool it down in the refrigerator.
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Related
- Best Starbucks Cold Brews
- Starbucks Cold Brew Coffee Copycat
- Starbucks Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew Copycat
- Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew with Cold Foam
- Cold Brew Coffee Latte
- Cold Brew Coffee Coke Float
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Starbucks Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew Copycat
INGREDIENTS
Caramel Cold Brew
- 2 tablespoons caramel sauce
- ¾ cup cold brew coffee
- 1 cup ice
Salted Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam
- ⅓ cup half & half
- 1 tablespoon vanilla syrup
- pinch sea salt
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine half & half, vanilla syrup, and salt in a French press. Pump the French press plunger.This makes the vanilla sweet cream cold foam. Set aside.
- Pour caramel sauce and cold brew into a cup.
- Top with cold foam.Stir before drinking.
EQUIPMENT
NOTES
- If you don’t have a French press, you can shake the cold foam ingredients together in a cocktail shaker or a jar with a tight lid but it’ll take a little bit more work.
- You can use any kind of cold brew coffee you like but to get it to taste most like Starbucks, use their cold brew blend, which includes coffee from Nariño, Colombia.
- The vanilla syrup and cold brew coffee can both be made ahead of time. The cold foam is best when it’s made right before assembling the drink.
- Use store-bought or homemade vanilla syrup. Homemade is pretty quick and easy to make, so give that a try! This is added to the cold foam to make it a salted vanilla sweet cream cold foam.
Great recipe. I add two pumps of toffee nut syrup to mine!
I’m absolutely in love with this recipe it is so good I definitely recommend it!