Caramelicious vs. Cinnalicious: Differences, Sizes and Nutrition

What's in each, according to Scooter's

The hot Caramelicious is espresso, Caramelicious sauce and steamed 2% milk, topped with whipped cream and caramel drizzle. The hot Cinnalicious has the same espresso, Caramelicious sauce and 2% milk, plus cinnamon brown sugar flavor and cinnamon powder, and it's finished with whipped cream and cinnamon powder instead of caramel drizzle. So the difference is the cinnamon, not a different base.

The pattern holds for the other versions. Both iced drinks are poured over ice with 2% milk; the Iced Cinnalicious also gets a cinnamon drizzle on the cup. Both blenders swap milk for an ice-cream base. Scooter's doesn't publish a full ingredient list for its sauces, so this is what the product descriptions name, not a complete recipe.

Calories and sugar, size by size

The table compares the two at the same size name and the same standard recipe, so each row is a fair match. Ounces differ between hot, iced and blended cups, which is why the size column shows them.

What the numbers show

• Calories are close. Neither drink is consistently lower; the gap at any size is small compared with the gap between sizes.
• Cinnalicious has less sugar than Caramelicious at every size, hot, iced and blended, in Scooter's data.
• Blenders are the highest-calorie version of both drinks at every size name.
• Iced is usually lower than hot at the same size name, even though iced cups hold more, because ice takes up part of the cup. It isn't true at every size, so check the row you'd order.

Comparing a hot medium with an iced medium compares different cup sizes. For like-for-like comparisons of any two drinks, use Compare.

Milk and sugar-free options

For the hot and iced versions of both, Scooter's publishes nutrition for 2%, skim, whole, oat, almond and coconut milk, so you can see how each choice changes the numbers on the product page. The blenders are listed only with their standard recipe.

Only Caramelicious has a sugar-free-flavor version on the current menu: Caramelicious With Sugar Free Flavor, plus iced and blender versions. Sugar-free flavor doesn't make the drink sugar-free, since milk and other parts still contain sugar; the sugar-free guide shows how much remains. There's no sugar-free Cinnalicious in Scooter's product data.

Other drinks built on Caramelicious sauce

Caramelicious sauce shows up across the menu, according to Scooter's descriptions. Sea Salt Caramelicious adds salted caramel and salted toffee. Maple Caramelicious adds maple flavor. The Caramelicious Crème Cold Brew swaps espresso for cold brew and adds cold foam, and the fall Pumpkin Caramelicious and Pumpkin Cinnalicious add pumpkin sauce to each base. The seasonal versions are limited-time, so check the seasonal menu before you go.

Choosing between them

If you like caramel on its own, Caramelicious is the plainer of the two; if you want cinnamon with it, Cinnalicious adds that on the same base. We don't rank them by taste or popularity, since there's no public data on which sells more. For the rest of the family, including Sea Salt and seasonal versions, see the 'Licious Lineup, and for store prices see the price directory.