Mocha coffee is richer in flavor and sweeter in aroma thanks to chocolate, and in recent years a variant called "Salted Mocha" has gone viral online. After trying it personally, Front Street Coffee found it truly outstanding, so we put together this complete tutorial. The article will detail the ingredient preparation for Salted Mocha, including purified milk that takes a day to make, as well as the combination of espresso, chocolate sauce, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. The preparation section covers both hot and iced versions of Salted Mocha—the former uses a tea whisk for stirring and steaming milk for latte art, while the latter is shaken in a shaker for an icy, rich experience. Throughout, Front Street Sunflower·Warm Sun blend coffee beans are used, which pair perfectly with the chocolate flavor.

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In the large family of espresso drinks, mocha can be understood as a milk coffee beverage infused with chocolate. Chocolate gives the coffee a fuller layered complexity and adds a sweeter note to the aroma of the entire drink. Especially in the cold autumn and winter seasons, holding a steaming cup of mocha, that warmth goes straight to the heart.

However, in recent years, a mocha derivative called "Salted Mocha" has rapidly gone viral online, and some also call it Cheese Salted Mocha or Butter Salted Mocha. Netizens have said it's a hit "specialty mocha" in coffee shops during autumn and winter, so Front Street decided to give it a try with a curious mindset. Unexpectedly, the result was truly stunning!

So today, Front Street will talk with everyone about how to make this viral Salted Mocha.

What ingredients are needed to make "Salted Mocha"?

The ingredients for this coffee are simple to describe yet complex, and simple yet somewhat time-consuming. It's simple because all the materials are easy to buy; it's troublesome because some materials need to be prepared in advance and take quite a bit of time.

Specifically, we need a higher-concentration milk to enhance the overall texture of the coffee, so purified milk must be made in advance. The process of making purified milk takes about a day, with a long waiting period, which is why it's said to be somewhat troublesome. (Of course, if you just buy ready-made, then Front Street never mentioned it.)

In addition to purified milk, we also need to prepare: espresso, chocolate sauce, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. The role of chocolate sauce is to give the coffee a more natural and palatable chocolate sweetness, while the unsweetened cocoa powder is used to adjust the intensity of the chocolate flavor.

For the espresso part, we still use a double shot. The coffee beans chosen by Front Street are the Sunflower·Warm Sun blend, which has clear whiskey aroma, butter cookie, and berry notes, pairing perfectly with the chocolate flavor. Once all ingredients are ready, we can officially start making the Salted Mocha.

The preparation process of "Salted Mocha"

Step one: pre-place the salt, chocolate sauce, and chocolate powder into the container that will catch the espresso next. Front Street's amounts are: 1 gram of salt, 5 grams of chocolate powder, and 15 milliliters of chocolate sauce.

Next, begin extracting the espresso. Front Street's extraction plan today is: 20 grams of powder, extracting 38 milliliters of liquid weight in 32 seconds. Note that the container with the ingredients should be placed directly under the spout to catch the espresso.

After catching it, use a tea whisk to stir the mixture in the container until no obvious particles float on the surface. Then use a strainer to remove any undissolved large clumps of chocolate powder.

The next step is to steam the milk, create milk foam, and do latte art, all in one go. A hot cup of Salted Mocha is then complete. (The amount of milk used here is 190 milliliters, and the milk foam thickness follows the latte standard.)

Before drinking, you can sprinkle some chocolate powder or cheese crumbs on the surface of the coffee, mainly to enhance the aroma, and then it's ready to enjoy. Front Street of course took the first sip!

I must say, this cup of Salted Mocha is really fragrant. The whiskey aroma from the Warm Sun blend, when combined with chocolate, presents a flavor like liqueur chocolates, very sweet and aromatic. Then you can sense a hint of butter cookie, and an exceptionally rich mouthfeel. This richness is mainly thanks to the purified milk, and because the milk is high in concentration, when combined with salt, it also produces a cheese-like taste. You can imagine, the salty aroma of cheese plus the sweetness of liqueur chocolates—the entire cup of coffee is rich and captivating, and one sip is truly satisfying.

Many friends might think that Front Street is about to wrap up here, NONONO! That would be underestimating Front Street too much. Because the entire cup of coffee is very rich in flavor, making it as an iced drink is equally outstanding. At this point, someone might ask: who drinks iced drinks in such cold weather?

"Does Guangdong have winter?"

So, let's start making the Iced Salted Mocha. The ingredients needed for the iced version are basically the same as the hot version, just replacing a small amount of milk with ice cubes. In terms of preparation, you can either do it conventionally like an iced latte, or use another popular online method—"Shake"! (Remember to prepare a shaker)

How exactly to do it? First, just like making hot Salted Mocha, combine the espresso, chocolate sauce, chocolate powder, and salt beforehand. (Since melting ice will dilute the flavor, you can add 5 milliliters more chocolate sauce here, and slightly increase the salt as well.) Then pour it into a shaker filled with ice cubes. (The amount of ice used here is 120 grams.)

Next, you can start shaking, and stop when the entire shaker is full of foam.

Then pour this chocolate espresso foam into a pre-prepared cup.

Finally, add an appropriate amount of milk, and a rich, icy Iced Salted Mocha is complete.

Compared to the hot Salted Mocha, the iced version doesn't smell as sweetly aromatic, but it's icy and rich on the palate, with a taste not inferior to the hot version at all. Front Street even thinks its sweetness is a bit higher. Alright, that's all for this sharing. We highly recommend friends who love chocolate to give it a try when they have time.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.