Crafting the perfect Starbucks ultra caramel frappuccino at home

Hi Bold Bakers, some of your fan favorite recipes are when I recreate Starbucks drinks, but one I have yet to do is a Caramel Frappuccino. This is so popular with Starbucks that they came out with the Ultra Caramel Frappuccino. It's made up of a layer of white chocolate and mocha cold brew whipped cream, caramel sauce, caramel and coffee frappuccino, more cold brew whipped cream, and then another layer of caramel sauce on top. Now this is absolutely out of this world, I'm gonna show you how you can make it at home really easily. As always the recipe can be found on BiggerBolderBaking.com along with all of my other recipes. Ok let's get started by making our caramel sauce. So in your saucepan we're going to add in some sugar and water. Now over low heat we're just gonna let the sugar dissolve. So once the sugar has dissolved now you can let it simmer so turn up the heat and let it bubble away there until you get a lovely golden brown caramel color. So now caramel sometimes can be a little bit tricky, people are a little bit nervous about it but I don't want you to be. Once you follow the steps, it's actually really easy to make. So our caramel has been bubbling away for a few minutes, it is reaching a nice amber color. Now you don't want to get it too dark because you don't want it to smoke. So this is the perfect time to add in our cream, then go straight in with your whisk and whisk it down. Then we're going to add in the butter, and then continue whisking that in as well. Gorgeous. Oh my gosh, it smells so good. And it's a beautiful kind of a caramel golden color. This is beautiful. With caramel it can kind of clump up a little bit but don't worry, if you just keep on whisking and let it bubble away, that sugar will work itself out. Just let it simmer for a few more seconds. And perfect. Now I'm just gonna turn off the heat, set it over to the side and let it cool down. So just so you know this isn't just for a caramel frappuccino, this is a caramel sauce that can be used on brownies or blondies, have it on ice cream, it's a great thing to have in the back of your fridge. So while this is cooling down we are going to whip up our cold brew whipped cream. So this whipped cream is made up of a few components, white chocolate, some coffee and our caramel sauce. So the first thing we're going to do is whip up our cream. Now in America we use heavy whipping cream, use anything that has a really high fat content and that'll whip up well. So now I'm going to use an electric hand mixer but you can use a stand mixer or if you have a lot of elbow grease you can do it by hand. And all you want to do is just whip it up until stiff peaks form. So the first thing we're gonna add in is some cold brew, now I like to make this with coffee granules because it's really concentrated and you get a good punch of coffee. Next up is our caramel sauce, have to have that guy in there. And then of course some melted, cooled white chocolate. Now once you add this in, we're gonna go straight in with our mixer and keep on whipping until it stiffens. I'm kind of wondering why I haven't been adding stuff to whipped cream all this time, this is absolutely delicious. Now I'm gonna pop this into the fridge and we are going to make our caramel coffee frappuccino. So it's caramel frappuccino time. So into my blender I am going to add some cold brew coffee, nice and strong because that's the way I like it, some milk to make it nice and creamy, a little bit of sugar for sweetness, vanilla extract, just a little drop because it makes everything taste better, some of our lovely homemade caramel sauce in you go, and then last but not least, ice which is really important. Okay, on with our lid, and then onto our blender. So now all we want to do is just blend this up until it's really lovely and smooth. Now I'm using a high powered blender, you can use any blender you have at home, obviously the higher the power, the smoother your Frappuccino will be. So our Frappuccino is done, it looks lovely and creamy. Here I have a little cup that I borrowed from an establishment down the road in my neighborhood. And into this I'm gonna pipe some of my cold brew whipped cream into the bottom. and I'm gonna follow that with a nice big drizzle of caramel sauce. We're all about layers here, this is why I like Starbucks drinks, they're all about layers and building flavor. And next I'm gonna go in with our Frappuccino mix, pretty much all the way to the top. And then we're just gonna finish it off with some whipped cream on top, and more caramel sauce. I did say this was the ultra caramel Frappuccino after all. Then I have my straw, in you go. And there you have your very own homemade ultra caramel frappuccino that tastes just like the real thing. It's caffeinated, and it's sweet, but it's absolutely delicious. And this cream, I mean, how did nobody think about this before? Coffee, caramel, oh, and whipped cream, I think I just saved myself a fortune by figuring out how to make this at home. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and make sure you check out my website for all of my other Starbucks drinks. I'll see you back here really soon for more Bigger Bolder Baking.