Dunkin’ Donuts just announced new candy bar iced coffee flavors to be released next week
Not content with merely offering customers an array of ice cream-flavored coffee heading into this summer, Dunkin’ Donuts will expand its iced coffee lineup with two new candy bar flavors.
The Canton-based company announced Wednesday the two new flavors—Almond Joy and Heath—will be unwrapped on Memorial Day next Monday. But, according to a company spokesperson, they will be “exclusively sampled” to guests at Boston Calling over the weekend.
The Almond Joy swirl will, like the candy bar, combine the flavors of milk chocolate, almonds, and coconut. Meanwhile, Dunkin’ Donuts joins Starbucks in the toffee-flavored coffee business with the new Heath bar-inspired swirl, which comprises a mix of milk chocolate and English toffee flavors.
It’s not the first time, however, that Dunkin’ Donuts has experimented with the toffee flavor. In 2009, following a fan submission contest, the company released a sour cream cake doughnut topped with chopped Heath bars. In past years, they have also tried other seasonal co-branded coffee flavors, such as Chips Ahoy, Oreo, and a number of Baskin Robbins ice cream flavor swirls.
While Dunkin’ Donuts promoted the new swirls as iced coffee flavors—as the company celebrated “National Iced Coffee Day” on Wednesday—as with the company’s other flavor swirls, they will be available in hot or iced coffee, lattes, and macchiatos.
The chain also released new “Fruited Tea” iced tea products on Wednesday.
The chain also announced new “Fruited Teas” on Wednesday, a product exclusively available in New England. The teas will feature the brewed black or green iced tea mixed with real fruit juice and finished with fruit.
For now, the teas, which will also be released next Monday and sampled at Boston Calling, will be available in Mango Pineapple and Blackberry.
According to a spokesperson, the Mango Pineapple flavor will include pieces of peaches and pineapples floated in the tea, while the Blackberry flavor will include strawberries.
According to Dunkin’ Donuts, both of the tea varieties are less than 100 calories for any size. Not so much for the candy-bar flavored iced coffee though, both of which pack 20 to 40 grams of sugar and 100 to 200 calories, depending on the size. And that is without adding any additional sweetener or creamer.
The company also reportedly began testing cold brew iced coffee this spring in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Bangor, Maine.
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