Buttered Toffee Mocha Frappé

This isn’t a repeat of the site’s plain Buttered Toffee Frappé — our Buttered Toffee Mocha pairs real chocolate with the salted butterscotch-toffee syrup behind our Buttered Toffee Latte, a genuinely different, two-base drink. This blends that combo with espresso, milk, and ice into a proper slushy frappé instead of pouring it over cubes.

Make Both Bases First (Just Once)

This recipe assumes you already have a jar each of Mocha Sauce and Buttered Toffee Syrup in the fridge — 15 and 10 minutes to make respectively, each covering about 12 drinks and keeping about 2 weeks.

Building the Frappé

1. Pull a double shot of espresso (about 2oz), or brew strong coffee/cold brew instead.
2. Add the espresso, 1 tbsp of the mocha sauce, 1 tbsp of the buttered toffee syrup, 1.5 cups of ice, and 4oz cold milk to a blender.
3. Blend on high for 30-45 seconds until smooth and slushy.
4. Pour into a 16oz glass, top with whipped cream and a dusting of cocoa powder or a drizzle of caramel if using, and serve immediately with a straw.

Café grande buttered toffee mocha Frappuccino-style blended drink (specialty-menu pricing)$7.00

Home buttered toffee mocha frappé (espresso, milk, ice, both bases)~$0.62

Savings per drink$6.38

Both bases together cost about $2.35 total to make (~$1.30 for the Mocha Sauce batch, ~$1.05 for the Buttered Toffee Syrup batch) — the same pair of jars behind the latte version.

Assumptions: grande-size blended drink, specialty-menu pricing for a two-flavor combo Frappuccino-style drink, dairy milk, $16/lb specialty beans or equivalent grocery beans. No seasonal ceiling — at 5 a week over the site’s standard 48-week year, that’s roughly $1,531/year back in your pocket versus the café version. The $7.00 café baseline is the average of two real, dated receipts (9/29/2026) from two different store locations — $6.90 and $7.10 — for a grande hot seasonal specialty drink, not a modeled national average.

Swaps & Notes

• No espresso machine? Strong cold brew or a moka pot shot both work fine.
• This isn’t a chocolate-caramel drink. Buttered toffee is brown sugar plus a real butterscotch/toffee extract and a pinch of salt — see the Buttered Toffee Syrup page for why that’s a distinctly different flavor from caramel.
• Not the same as our plain Buttered Toffee Frappé. This is the chocolate-and-toffee combo, not a duplicate of the single-flavor Buttered Toffee Frappé, which has no chocolate in it at all.
• Want it more chocolate-forward or more toffee-forward? Shift the ratio — 1.5 tbsp of whichever base you want to lead, 0.5 tbsp of the other.
• Prefer it poured over ice instead of blended? See the Buttered Toffee Mocha and use its Hot/Iced toggle.

Recipe Card Summary

Buttered Toffee Mocha Frappé

• 2oz espresso + 4oz milk + 1 tbsp Mocha Sauce + 1 tbsp Buttered Toffee Syrup (both made ahead) + 1.5 cups ice, blended
• Prep time: 5 minutes (after both bases are made) · Total: 5 minutes
• Cost: ~$0.62/drink vs. $7.00 café equivalent

FAQ

Do I need a whole new syrup for this, or does it reuse the latte’s jars?

It reuses the same 1 tbsp each of Mocha Sauce and Buttered Toffee Syrup behind the latte version — this page just blends instead of pours.

Is “buttered toffee” the same as caramel with chocolate?

No — see the honest note on the Buttered Toffee Syrup page. Buttered toffee is brown sugar with a butterscotch/toffee extract and salt; our Caramel Syrup is browned white sugar.

Can I make this without a blender?

Yes — the iced Buttered Toffee Mocha uses the exact same espresso, milk, and syrup quantities poured over ice instead of blended.