Baskin-Robbins Hot Fudge Sundae Copycat Recipe
A proper hot fudge sauce - thick, glossy and made with cocoa and butter - over ice cream. Eight minutes for the sauce.
Cooking Baskin-Robbins at home, and what its menu costs
Thirty-one flavours, a handful of which are genuinely worth churning yourself.
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The Baskin-Robbins recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
Baskin-Robbins Milkshake Copycat Recipe
Four parts ice cream to one part milk, blended briefly. Ninety seconds, and the only real mistake is over-blending.
What Baskin-Robbins food actually tastes of
No-churn works because of condensed milk, not because of the cream. Sweetened condensed milk is about 45 per cent sugar by weight, and dissolved sugar lowers the freezing point and interferes with crystal formation. That is the whole mechanism, and it is why a no-churn tub is scoopable where a frozen custard base is a brick.
Whip the cream to soft peaks, not stiff. Stiff peaks are already close to butter, and the mixture goes grainy when it freezes.
Ribbons go in at the end, barely folded. Three passes with a spatula and no more. A ribbon should be a ribbon; four more passes and you have a beige tub.
Freeze it flat and shallow. A wide container freezes faster, which means smaller crystals, which means a smoother scoop. The same principle as flat freezing anything else.
About Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins was built on a number. Thirty-one flavours - one for every day of the month - was a genuinely radical proposition in 1953, when an ice cream shop meant vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, and it is still the shape of the business seventy years on.
What the chain actually trades on now is nostalgia attached to two or three specific flavours. Pralines 'n Cream, Jamoca Almond Fudge, and the bright blue one that tastes of nothing identifiable and everything at once. People do not have a favourite ice cream shop; they have a favourite flavour that happens to be there.
Home ice cream has moved a long way in the last decade, largely because of one technique. A no-churn condensed milk base gets remarkably close to a commercial soft scoop with no machine at all, because condensed milk does the same job as the stabilisers in a commercial mix: it physically obstructs ice crystal growth and lowers the freezing point, so the tub stays scoopable straight from a domestic freezer.
That makes the flavours rather than the base the interesting part, which is also how the chain sees it.
What Baskin-Robbins charges, from the menu we hold
62 priced options across 47 menu sections, as last recorded in United States. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $7.48 and $16.23. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $1.99 | |
| Middle of the menu | $9.98 | |
| Dearest priced item | $62.48 |
Baskin-Robbins changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Baskin-Robbins price history. The full list is on the Baskin-Robbins menu page, and the 2 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Baskin-Robbins sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Triple Scoop | 4 | - |
| Double Scoop | 4 | - |
| Single Scoop | 4 | - |
| Banana Royale Sundae | 3 | - |
| Banana Split | 3 | - |
| Brownie Sundae | 3 | - |
| Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Layered Sundae | 2 | - |
| Handpacked Pint | 2 | - |
| Regular Take Home Pack (680g) | 2 | - |
| Banana Royale | 2 | - |
| Milkshake | 2 | Baskin-Robbins Milkshake Copycat Recipe |
| Small Take Home Pack (340g) | 2 | - |
Build your Baskin-Robbins order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side - 1 of the items below has a fully documented copycat recipe on this site.
Other ice cream chains
What else people compare Baskin-Robbins against, and what we hold for each.
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