Dunkin' Boston Kreme Doughnut Copycat Recipe
The same yeasted dough with no hole, filled with crème pâtissière and topped with a chocolate glaze. The custard is t…
Cooking Dunkin' at home, and what its menu costs
A New England coffee shop that sells doughnuts - the iced coffee is the actual product.
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The Dunkin' 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.
Dunkin' Iced Coffee Copycat Recipe
Hot-brewed at double strength, chilled fast, and sweetened with syrup rather than granules. Five minutes plus chilling.
What Dunkin' food actually tastes of
Iced coffee must be brewed at double strength. A tall glass holds about 200 g of ice, which is 200 ml of water joining the drink. Brew normally, pour it over ice, and by the time it is half melted you are drinking coffee at 70 per cent strength - which does not taste like weaker coffee, it tastes thin and disproportionately sour.
Chill it fast, not slowly. Hot coffee cooling on a worktop for two hours oxidises and develops a dull, papery flavour. Brew onto ice, or stand the jug in an ice bath.
Sweeten with sugar syrup, never granulated sugar. Sugar does not dissolve in cold coffee - it sits at the bottom and the last inch of the cup is unbearable. Two parts sugar to one part water, simmered until clear, keeps six months in the fridge.
A medium or dark roast. Cold accentuates acidity and suppresses sweetness, so a light roast iced tastes sharply sour. This is also why the chain roasts the way it does.
The classic doughnut glaze is thin and sets matte. Icing sugar and milk, nothing else, applied while the doughnut is warm enough to absorb some of it.
About Dunkin'
Dunkin' dropped "Donuts" from its name in 2019, which was an unusually honest piece of corporate branding: the company has sold more coffee than doughnuts for years, and in its New England heartland it functions as the default morning stop in a way that has very little to do with baked goods.
Its iced coffee has a specific, recognisable character, and the method behind it is the useful part. The coffee is brewed hot at roughly double strength and then chilled, so that the ice melting into the cup brings it back to normal rather than reducing it to something thin and sour. And it is sweetened with a liquid sugar rather than granules, because granulated sugar does not dissolve in a cold drink - it sits at the bottom and the last inch of the cup is unbearable. That second detail is the one home versions almost always miss and it takes four minutes to fix.
The doughnuts are cake-style as often as yeasted, which makes several of them substantially easier than a Krispy Kreme copy. A Boston Kreme needs a yeasted shell, but the chocolate glaze and the crème pâtissière inside it are both weeknight jobs, and the cake doughnuts are a batter you mix and fry in twenty minutes with no proving at all.
Where the chain genuinely differs from its competitors is speed rather than quality, and speed is the one thing a home kitchen cannot sell you.
What Dunkin' charges, from the menu we hold
30 priced options across 67 menu sections, as last recorded in Thailand. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $2.00 and $3.36. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $1.19 | |
| Middle of the menu | $2.61 | |
| Dearest priced item | $11.98 |
Dunkin' 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 Dunkin' price history. The full list is on the Dunkin' menu page, and the 2 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Dunkin' charges in 5 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Dunkin' sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Hot Chocolate, which costs $5.23 in the dearest market and $2.23 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇮🇪 EUR | 🇳🇿 NZD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.23 | $3.92 | $3.42 | $4.14 | $2.23 |
Only items Dunkin' prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Dunkin' 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Chocolate | 5 | - |
| Iced Americano | 4 | - |
| Hash Browns | 4 | - |
| Latte | 4 | - |
| Iced Latte | 4 | - |
| Cold Brew | 3 | - |
| Half Dozen Donuts | 3 | - |
| English Muffin | 3 | - |
| Espresso | 3 | - |
| Muffins | 3 | - |
| Iced Coffee | 3 | Dunkin' Iced Coffee Copycat Recipe |
| Hot Americano | 3 | - |
Build your Dunkin' 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.
Other coffee chains
What else people compare Dunkin' against, and what we hold for each.
Starbucks
6 copycat recipes
Pret A Manger
1 copycat recipe
Costa Coffee
1 copycat recipe
Black Canyon Coffee
1 copycat recipe
Coffee World
1 copycat recipe
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