This simple Butterscotch Coffee Recipe with caramel makes the perfect drink for cold nights! Add butterscotch schnapps for an adult drink or sip on its own for a nice warm cup of fall. Download the free printable recipe card for a make your own coffee bar at your next party!
Butterscotch Caramel Coffee Recipe
I’m a coffee lover and butterscotch coffee sounded like a fabulous combination one day and how this recipe was born!
When we had a blast of cold weather here in Dallas, it got me craving a warm fall drink, so I came up with this Butterscotch Caramel Coffee Recipe with some items I had in my kitchen.
I spiked my cup of coffee withbutterscotch schnapps and itturned out so tasty that it was hard not to have severalcups!
Luckily, I kept mywill power though and stuck tomy low carb diet by only having one! A girl has to have a fewsweet treats here and there to make life worth living right? I’m all about rewards and since I have lost over 35 pounds… I deserved one. Yay!
Easy Butterscotch Coffee Recipe You Can’t Resist
Not only is this good to make for yourself, but would make a fabulous party drink. I designed a free printable label for a coffee bar station so all you have to do is set out the ingredients and let your party guests mix up their own drink. Less work for the hostess (YOU) and fun for the guests!
Serve this delicious hotcoffee drink at your next holiday party and coffee lovers will love you just about as much as they do their coffee!
When is National Coffee Day?
The celebration of coffee happens each year with National Coffee Day on September 29. If you’re looking for a great drink to celebrate National Coffee day , this is your best coffee treat you can easily make at home!
You might also love these delicious holiday party drinks and punch:
Crockpot White Hot Chocolate 3 Ways
Tropical Rum Punch
Spiced Rum Caramel Apple Milkshake
Butterscotch Martini Recipe
Cranberry Christmas Sangria
Autumn Spice Punch
What Do You Need for a Coffee Bar?
If you want to create a coffee bar station at your next event this is the perfect recipe!
I love having drink stations like a soda bar set up for a party. A coffee bar is a simple dessert station for coffee lovers! It’s nice to use hot drink dispensers that keep coffee warm and toasty all night.
Along with your coffee maker or drink dispenser, you’ll want to set out out mugs, spoons, ingredients and the printable Butterscotch Caramel Coffee recipe card for guests to create their own drinks. Be sure to place cold items such as whipped cream in a bucket of ice to keep chilled.
What Do You Need To Make Butterscotch Coffee?
This easy drink is perfect for fall and winter months. It’s easy to make one cup at a time or place out for your coffee bar.
Butterscotch Coffee Ingredients
1 large cup of coffee
ground cinnamon
butterscotch schnapps or butterscotch syrup
heavy whipping cream or half and half
caramel sauce and a bit extra for drizzling on top
whipped cream
For an alcohol free version, substitute the butterscotch schnapps with butterscotch syrup.
Free Printable Coffee Recipe Card
Download the Free Printable Recipe Card hereand print it out for your next party!
I hope you enjoy this wonderful comforting coffee with a twist!
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Butterscotch Caramel Coffee
Easy Butterscotch Coffee recipe with caramel makes the perfect drink for cold nights! Comes with a free printable recipe card for a holiday party coffee bar.
Originally published September 2017 – Updated September 23, 2021
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At its simplest, caramel is sugar that's heated and melted until it's brown but not burned. Water can be used to thin it, or to make soft caramel, cream or milk is added. Butterscotch at its most basic is a mixture of brown sugar and butter, melted and cooked together. Cream is typically added.
What Is Butterscotch? Butterscotch is butter and brown sugar that has been slowly heated together to create a soft-crack candy. Just like caramel, the brown sugar molecules break down and, thanks to the addition of molasses in the sugar, caramelize into a richer, deeper flavor than classic caramel.
Caramel and butterscotch are made differently; caramel is a “ mix of white granulated sugar, heavy whipping cream, butter and a small amount of vanilla.” Butterscotch ingredients are “ brown sugar" ( originally butterscotch was a hard candy). I don't think you are able to interchange the two flavours in recipes.
They look and taste similar, but there are subtle differences. What's the difference between caramel and butterscotch sauce? This is a common question since both are cooked sugar concoctions. But the main difference is caramel is made with granulated sugar while butterscotch is made with brown sugar.
Similar to caramel, butterscotch is made by heating sugar.The main difference between the two is that butterscotch uses brown sugar instead of white. The ingredients are also combined in a slightly different order for butterscotch: your start out by melting butter with brown sugar.
Wet caramel is made by combining sugar and a liquid and cooking them together, while dry caramel is made from just sugar, heated in a dry pan until it liquefies and browns.
Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Some recipes include corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in place of, or in addition to, sugar.
The main difference between butterscotch and caramel is that butterscotch is made with dark brown sugar (white sugar + molasses) and a high proportion of butter, and caramel is made with white sugar and a relatively small proportion of butter (and you don't have to add any butter at all if you don't want to).
In the kitchen, FOBs (friends of butterscotch) include apples, pecans, cream, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, chocolate, dessert sherry, rum and Scotch whisky. Here are some simple ways to showcase its flavor: Make butterscotch sundaes. Add a little Scotch or rum to warm butterscotch sauce.
Butterscotch and caramel taste very different from each other. Butter scotch is bit harder and as suggested by name is made by brown sugar and butter whereas caramel is softer and made by white granulated sugar with either milk/whipped cream or butter with pinch of vanilla.
Butterscotch and caramel are both cooked sugar. But the main difference between the two is the sugar used to make them. Caramel is often made with regular white granulated sugar, while butterscotch is made with brown sugar. Caramel sauce doesn't always have butter, while butterscotch always calls for butter.
As the sugar melts and cooks, the caramel gets richer and toastier, and the color goes from a pale gold to a dark amber. Butterscotch is made from cooking down brown sugar with butter, and its flavor is sweeter and softer than that of caramel. Dulce de leche is made from slowly cooking cow milk and sugar together.
People love butterscotch cakes for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, butterscotch lends a unique flavour profile that strikes a perfect balance between sweetness and a hint of buttery richness. Its smooth and creamy texture complements the cake's moist crumb, creating a delightful contrast.
butterscotch, usually hard candy made by boiling brown sugar and butter and sometimes corn syrup together in water. The derivation of the name is disputed as to whether it denotes the candy's origin in Scotland or an original ingredient of “scotched,” or scorched, butter.
Caramel can be produced in so many forms such as, sauce, a chewy candy, or a hard candy because of how much of an ingredient is added and the temperature it is being prepared at.
Caramelization does not actually take place when you make dulce de leche. Instead, thanks to the Maillard reaction, we get a lovely, nutty, mellow flavor akin to toffee or butterscotch. This is due to the browning of the lactose and lysine in the milk.
Why won't my butterscotch sauce thicken? Once your sauce comes to a bubbling simmer let it cook for 3 full minutes without touching it. If you don't cook the sauce enough it won't thicken. If you cook it for too long, or at a full boil, then it will thicken too much and be more like butterscotch candy.
Butterscotch is made from cooking down brown sugar with butter, and its flavor is sweeter and softer than that of caramel. Dulce de leche is made from slowly cooking cow milk and sugar together. Dulce de leche made with goat milk is known as cajeta.
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