Name: Iced Shaken Caramel Latte
Yield: Serves 1
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¾ cup + 2 tbsp/200 g unsalted butter, cubed, at room temperature; 1 to 2 generous handfuls of ice; ¼ cup/60 ml espresso, at room temperature; 1¼ cups/300 ml whole organic milk; 2 cups/480 ml heavy cream, at room temperature; 3 tbsp water; 1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped out, pod reserved; 2 cups/400 g sugar; 1¼ tsp kosher salt

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Huckleberry

By Zoe Nathan

Published 2014

About

When I’m having a hard day, I make one of these. It’s the kind of drink that makes everything right in the world for a few moments. It works really well hot, but shaken over ice with the salty sweetness of the homemade caramel makes a fun and slightly frothy version of those overly sweet drinks that everyone is used to. The caramel sauce recipe below makes way more than you’d need for a few drinks (about 2 cups/430 ml), but make it anyway; the sauce is fantastic over bread pudding, pancakes