Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, 5 Sachets 115g
The thing that decides whether you get on with this is not the caramel, it is the finish. Caramel lengthens a drink, and this one is still with you a good while after the mug goes back on the desk, which is a virtue after dinner and a nuisance at eleven in the morning beside a sandwich. Buy it for the first of those and it earns its keep; buy it as the all-purpose office coffee and by the third day it will feel like too much. It is also not the box to make for a guest who has just said they take no sugar, because the sweetening is in the powder and there is no lighter setting to reach for. The score it carries reads as the honest one for a flavoured sachet: well liked by people who came for a sweet drink, shrugged at by people who came for a coffee. Milk is in the powder, which settles it for dairy-free households and for anyone with a milk allergy.
Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, in brief.
Starbucks Caramel Latte is the coffee shop's caramel drink in a sachet you make with a kettle, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the one flavoured sachet that gives you a properly thick mug rather than a long thin one.
Five sachets of 23g, 115g in the carton, one mug each, milk powder included so no fridge is needed. At 23g the dose is bigger than the 16g to 18g common elsewhere, so give it 200 to 220ml rather than 180ml; this is the rare sachet that gets made too strong rather than too weak. Note that some listings show 23g as though it were the pack weight, when it is the weight of one sachet. Being a milk drink, it is not dairy-free.
Starbucks Caramel Latte is the coffee shop's caramel drink packed down into a sachet you make with a kettle. Five sachets of 23g, 115g in the carton, one mug each.
What you are paying the extra for is weight in the mug. Starbucks sachets are larger than most supermarket equivalents, 23g against the 16g to 18g that is common elsewhere, and that shows up as a thicker, more substantial drink rather than as a longer one. Whether that is worth it depends on whether you want a satisfying single mug or several cheaper ones.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on orders placed before 2pm Monday to Friday.
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The Story Behind Starbucks at Home
Starbucks built a global business on flavoured milk coffees, and the at-home range exists to sell the same drinks to the same people on the days they do not walk past a shop. That is a more honest description of the category than most of its marketing, and it explains the product design: the sachets are built to taste recognisably like the counter drinks rather than to taste like instant coffee.
The caramel is the clearest example. It is not the soft toffee note most supermarket sachets use; it has a burnt-sugar edge that reads as caramel rather than as sweetness, and that edge is what people are recognising when they say it tastes like the shop version.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count: five single-serve sachets of 23g, 115g in the carton, one mug each.
- Bigger sachets: 23g against the 16g to 18g common elsewhere. The drink is thicker rather than longer, and that is the main thing the higher price buys.
- Milk included: the milk component is in the sachet in powder form, which is why the carton needs no fridge and travels flat. That also means it is not suitable for a dairy-free diet.
- What it is not: not a decaf, not unsweetened, and not a barista drink. It is a sweet caramel milk coffee with a bigger dose than most.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A larger sachet needs more water than people give it, and gets made too strong far more often than too weak. That is the opposite of the usual sachet problem and worth knowing before the first mug, because an under-watered caramel latte is cloying in a way a properly built one is not.
The Proper Mug
- Measure: one sachet to 200 to 220ml, not 180ml. At 23g this sachet carries a bigger dose than most and needs the room.
- Water: let the kettle stand a minute; around 90 degrees Celsius keeps the milk from tasting cooked.
- Pour: powder into a dry mug, water in from a height, one brief stir. The drop raises what head there is.
- Let it settle: a minute or two before drinking. Very hot, the caramel reads as generic sweetness; slightly cooler, the burnt-sugar edge comes through.
Balancing It
- Add coffee: half a teaspoon of plain instant in the dry powder. Bitterness is what balances this much sugar, and the larger sachet carries it well.
- Add salt: the smallest pinch makes it a salted caramel latte and shortens the finish noticeably.
- Iced: dissolve in 60ml of hot water first, then build over ice with cold milk. Cold blunts sweetness, and this drink benefits.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: around 90 degrees Celsius, not straight off the boil.
- Measure: 200 to 220ml per sachet, more than a standard latte sachet wants.
- Method: dry mug, pour from a height, one brief stir, then a short wait.
- Storage: sealed and dry in the carton. Sugar-heavy powders cake once they take up moisture.
- Travelling: five mugs flat in a bag, no jar and no milk needed.
- Best with: a cold afternoon, a plain biscuit rather than a sweet one, or on its own as the treat it is.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, 5 Sachets 115g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Starbucks
Starbucks needs no introduction. Their at-home retail range covers the cafe-style favourites: Toffee Nut Latte sachets, instant coffee, and the wider iced and hot drink format. Particularly strong on flavoured latte sachets.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
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Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, 5 Sachets 115g is a finished drink out of the sachet, and the builds below are mostly about giving the larger dose the room it needs and balancing the sugar. Five in total: the proper mug, the salted version, a coffee-forward one, an iced glass and an affogato.
Made with this tea
The Proper Mug
How to make The Proper Mug with Starbucks Caramel Latte.
- 1 sachet Starbucks Caramel Latte
- 210ml water at about 90 degrees Celsius
- Boil the kettle and let it stand for a minute.
- Empty the sachet into a dry mug and pour 210ml in from a height. Give it the extra water; at 23g this sachet needs the room.
- Stir once from the bottom.
- Wait a minute or two. Scalding hot, the caramel reads as plain sweetness.
What you'll end up with: A thick caramel latte with the burnt-sugar edge showing and the coffee still audible. If it is cloying, you under-watered it.
Salted Caramel Version
How to make Salted Caramel Version with Starbucks Caramel Latte.
- 1 sachet Starbucks Caramel Latte
- The smallest pinch of fine salt
- 210ml water at about 90 degrees Celsius
- Put the salt in the dry mug with the powder so it disperses evenly.
- Pour and stir once.
- Taste before adding more. A second pinch is usually one too many.
What you'll end up with: A much shorter finish and a mug that is easier to get to the bottom of. This is why salted caramel took over the flavour everywhere else.
The Coffee-Forward Mug
How to make The Coffee-Forward Mug with Starbucks Caramel Latte.
- 1 sachet Starbucks Caramel Latte
- Half a teaspoon of plain instant coffee
- 210ml water at about 90 degrees Celsius
- Add the plain instant to the dry powder in the mug.
- Pour from a height and stir once.
- Wait a minute before drinking, as with the standard mug.
What you'll end up with: A caramel coffee rather than a caramel drink. The bigger sachet carries the extra instant comfortably, which a 16g one would not.
Iced Caramel Latte
How to make Iced Caramel Latte with Starbucks Caramel Latte.
- 1 sachet Starbucks Caramel Latte
- 60ml hot water
- A glass of ice
- 150ml cold milk
- Dissolve the sachet completely in 60ml of hot water. Dry powder into cold milk will streak.
- Fill a tall glass with ice and cold milk.
- Pour the concentrate down the inside of the glass and stir once.
What you'll end up with: A better-balanced drink than the hot mug for many people. Cold blunts sugar perception, so the caramel stops shouting and the coffee gets a look in.
Caramel Affogato
How to make Caramel Affogato with Starbucks Caramel Latte.
- 1 sachet Starbucks Caramel Latte
- 110ml hot water
- 1 scoop coffee ice cream
- Make the sachet short and thick with only 110ml of hot water.
- Put a scoop of coffee ice cream in a small bowl or heavy glass.
- Pour over and serve immediately.
What you'll end up with: A pudding built from one sachet. Coffee ice cream rather than vanilla, or the whole thing is sweetness on sweetness.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 46 kcal |
| Fat | 0.5g |
| of which saturates | 0.5g |
| Carbohydrate | 8.5g |
| of which sugars | 7.5g |
| Fibre | 0.2g |
| Protein | 1.8g |
| Salt | 0.1g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Skimmed Milk Powder 39%, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Coffee 5.8% (Instant Coffee 5.7%, Roast and Ground Coffee), Coconut Oil, Lactose (Milk), Natural Flavouring, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid).
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel flavour | Printed on the current pack | The lead note, and burnt-sugar rather than soft toffee. That edge is what makes it read as caramel instead of as plain sweetness. |
| Milk component (powder) | See current pack | The thickness and coating. At 23g there is more of it than in a typical sachet, which is why the mug feels substantial rather than long. |
| Instant coffee | See current pack | More present here than in most flavoured sachets, which is the main thing the larger dose buys you. |
| Sugar | Part of the recipe | High sweetness, set at the factory. A pinch of salt or half a teaspoon of plain instant balances it better than extra water does. |
| Format | 5 sachets of 23g | One mug each, 115g in the carton, sealed until used and flat enough to travel. |
Pack: Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee, 5 sachets of 23g, 115g in the carton, each made up with hot water only. Read the ingredient list, allergen advice and best-before date off the current UK carton.
Characterising components shown; proportions are printed on the pack and are not quoted here.
Sourcing & blend. Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee is part of the Starbucks at-home range, which exists to sell the counter drinks to the same customers on the days they do not walk past a shop. That is a plainer description of the category than most of its marketing, and it explains the design: these sachets are built to taste recognisably like the shop drinks rather than like instant coffee, and they carry a larger dose than most supermarket equivalents to get the weight in the mug that the counter version has. The caramel is the clearest example of the approach, with a burnt-sugar edge rather than the soft toffee note used elsewhere in the aisle.
What's in Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, 5 Sachets 115g, and what isn't:
- In: instant coffee, a milk component in powder form, caramel flavouring and sugar, in a single-serve sachet made up with hot water.
- Not dairy-free: the milk component is intrinsic to the drink. Not suitable for a vegan or dairy-free diet, and not a drink for anyone with a milk allergy.
- Not unsweetened: the sugar is in the recipe. More water makes it longer; nothing removes it.
- Packaging: follow the current UK pack and your local-authority guidance; the outer carton and the sachet film usually take different disposal routes.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Starbucks Caramel Latte Instant Coffee Sachets, 5 Sachets 115g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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