Make your own Salted Caramel Syrup for coffee, chai, and matcha at home! It's so much cheaper, easy to make and you'll only need 3 ingredients. You'll love it!
I think it's absolutely crazy that caramel syrup is so expensive in the stores because the ingredients to make it at home come to under 1$. And it's not much work either. It stores in the fridge for weeks and months.
So this (Salted) Caramel Syrup goes straight onto my list of things I'll never buy again and rather make myself instead.
With the temperatures dropping, I've slowly switched from my Cold Brew to warm mocaccinos, cappuccinos, chais, and matcha lattes. It's the perfect afternoon treat while doing some puzzles or reading.
Lately, I've been dabbling more into making my own syrups like this Vanilla Syrup that I published a few months ago.
So this time, I've made my own super easy, homemade Salted Caramel Syrup.
What I love about this caramel syrup is that
- you only need three ingredients
- you only need 15 minutes
- such much cheaper than store-bought
- and it stores forever in the fridge
This Salted Caramel Syrup really brings the cappuccino/latte game to the next level! I love the slight saltiness, this makes it so much more interesting. I add about 1-2 teaspoons of syrup.
How to make Salted Caramel Syrup
The Ingredients & possible substitutes
You'll only need 3 ingredients:
- sugar - I am using white sugar but can also use dextrose (for a low fructose version) or brown or cane sugar
- salt - omit if you want to make non-salted caramel syrup
- water
The Basic Steps
As always, you will find the whole recipe with measurements in the box below but I want to give you an overview of the key ingredients, variations, and the process with step-by-step photos first.
More drink recipes
- Homemade Vanilla Syrup
- Cold Brew Coffee
- Ginger Beer Syrup (no yeast, no alcohol)
- Gin Basil Smash
- Blueberry Gin Fizz
- Pomegranate Gin Fizz
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Salted Caramel Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup boiling hot water
Instructions
- Add the sugar into a pot and bring it to high heat. Keep stirring while the sugar melts and caramelizes. Once all the clumps are gone, remove the pot from the heat.
- Add the salt.
- Then carefully add boiling hot water. It sizzles a lot, so do it slowly.
- Give it stir. If you still have sugar clumps, bring it back to heat. Otherwise, you're good to fill it into glass bottles. But be very careful because it's very, very hot.
- Then you can store it in the fridge and use it in your coffee, chai, matcha, etc!
Eva says
Are the 770 calories per cup or serving?
Bianca says
The calories are per cup. There are ±48 teaspoons per cup, so this would come to 16 calories per teaspoon, give or take.