Dutch Bros Frost Menu 2026: Every Flavor, Real Prices & Calories

Twelve cars deep in the drive-thru, about three seconds to decide, and the board lists maybe six Frost flavors. That’s how most people end up ordering vanilla for the fourth time running.

The real Dutch Bros Frost menu is far longer than the board, because a Frost isn’t a fixed drink. It’s an ice cream base plus whatever the syrup wall is holding that week.

Everything below comes from working through the Dutch Bros Frost lineup properly. Prices, calories, the secret builds worth your money, and the two flavors I’d talk you out of.

Last updated: August 2026 – Prices checked across shops in Arizona, Oregon and Texas.

What Is a Dutch Bros Frost? (The Base Explained)

Most of the confusion here comes from not knowing what’s actually in a Dutch Bros Frost. Here’s the base, the texture, and the one distinction that trips people up at the speaker.

What’s Actually in the Frost Base

A Dutch Bros Frost starts with a soft-serve style ice cream mix. Not coffee, not fruit puree. The Broista blends that mix with milk, ice and whichever syrups you name, then finishes it with Soft Top and a drizzle.

The result drinks like a slightly thinner milkshake. Thick enough that the straw puts up a fight, loose enough that you’re not spooning it out at a red light.

Frost vs. Freeze in One Line

Here’s the whole confusion, solved: a Frost has no coffee, a Freeze does. Same blender, same cup, completely different drink.

The names are unhelpfully similar, which is why the mix-up happens daily at the speaker. Want the ice cream one, say Frost. Want cold blended coffee, you are after the Dutch Bros Freeze menu instead.

Why Some Frosts Taste Like Coffee Anyway

Ninja and Golden Eagle Frost both read as mocha, and neither one contains espresso. The chocolate, caramel and macadamia syrups do all of that work.

If you actually want caffeine in there, ask for a shot added. You keep the base and the flavor and pick up around 90mg. It’s a request, never a default.

Full Dutch Bros Frost Menu (2026)

The Dutch Bros Frost menu below covers the standing flavors plus the seasonal and secret builds worth knowing. Sweetness is my own 1–10 read after tasting them, not an official figure.

Read the numbers as estimates. Dutch Bros prices by market rather than nationally, so a medium in Phoenix and a medium in Boise can differ by most of a dollar.

Calories move harder than price does. Swap 2% for breve, add Soft Top and a double drizzle, and you can push a large past 900 without changing the flavor name at all.

The 10 Best Frosts, Ranked

Ranked on how these Frost flavors actually drink rather than how they photograph. Calorie figures are for a medium, and every one of these is worth ordering at least once.

1. Oreo Frost

Cookie crumble blended right through the base rather than sprinkled on top. This is the one I hand to people who claim they don’t like sweet drinks, and it converts most of them.

Order it: “Medium Oreo Frost.” · ~640 cal

2. Golden Eagle Frost

Vanilla, caramel and a drizzle over the ice cream base. Dessert with no pretence about being anything else, and the closest thing this board has to a signature drink.

Order it: “Medium Golden Eagle Frost.” · ⚠️ ~650 cal

3. Caramel Frost

The safest upgrade on the menu. Caramel doesn’t fight the base, it deepens it, and the drizzle gives the straw something to work at on the way down.

Order it: “Medium caramel Frost, light drizzle.” · ~570 cal

4. Bob Marley Frost

Dark chocolate, coconut and banana. On paper it reads like a dare. In the cup it’s the most interesting thing here, and the banana stops it turning cloying halfway down.

Order it: “Medium Frost with dark chocolate, coconut and banana.” · ~620 cal

5. Snickerdoodle Frost

Cinnamon and vanilla, nothing clever about it. It tastes like the dough rather than the finished cookie, which is a better outcome than it sounds.

Order it: “Medium Snickerdoodle Frost.” · ~590 cal

6. Strawberry Frost

Real strawberry instead of syrup alone, so it stays bright rather than turning into candy. The right pick in genuine heat, and the one worth ordering in Phoenix in August.

Order it: “Medium strawberry Frost, no drizzle.” · ~520 cal

7. German Chocolate Frost

Chocolate, coconut and caramel stacked together. Heavy, unapologetic, and closer to a slice of cake than something you should be sipping while merging onto a freeway.

Order it: “Medium German Chocolate Frost.” · ~620 cal

8. Pink Flamingo Frost

White chocolate, strawberry and peach. Fruity without going full candy, and it photographs well enough that half the people ordering it found it on TikTok first.

Order it: “Medium Frost with white chocolate, strawberry and peach.” · ~600 cal

9. Vanilla Frost

The floor of the menu, and there’s no shame in it. When you’re ordering for someone whose taste you don’t know, this is the one that never comes back untouched.

Order it: “Medium vanilla Frost.” · ~500 cal

10. Orangesicle Frost

Orange and vanilla, exactly the popsicle you’re picturing. Lighter than most of this list and the only Frost that resets your palate instead of coating it.

Order it: “Medium Orangesicle Frost.” · ~530 cal

Dutch Bros Frost Secret Menu

None of these are hidden, they’re just unlisted, the same way most of the wider Dutch Bros secret menu works. Every build below uses syrups already on the wall, which is why naming ingredients beats naming the drink.

How to Actually Order One

None of these live in the register. The names travel through TikTok and group chats, so recognition depends entirely on which Broista is at your window that morning.

Say the name first. If you get a polite blank stare, list the build instead. That always works, because you’re only naming syrups they already have on the wall.

Bubble Gum Frost

Vanilla, strawberry and banana blended together, which somehow lands on bubblegum. It shouldn’t work and it does, though it sits firmly in kid territory.

Order it: “Medium Frost with vanilla, strawberry and banana.”

OG Gummy Bear Frost

Pomegranate, raspberry and peach over the base. Sharper and tangier than anything else here, and the one to reach for when you’re tired of chocolate.

Order it: “Medium Frost with pomegranate, raspberry and peach.”

White Zombie Frost

White chocolate and vanilla, nothing else in it. Simple enough that people underrate it, rich enough that a small is genuinely plenty.

Order it: “Medium Frost with white chocolate and vanilla.”

Cotton Candy Frost

White chocolate and blue raspberry, whipped cream, sprinkles. The most photographed Frost on the menu and, honestly, the sweetest thing on the whole board.

Order it: “Medium Frost with white chocolate and blue raspberry.” · ⚠️ Sweetness 10/10

Why Your Shop Might Say No

Syrup stock rotates by region and season. Peach, pomegranate and certain seasonal sauces come and go, and a shop simply may not have it that week.

Ask before the line stacks up behind you. If it’s a no, swapping one ingredient usually gets you close enough that you won’t notice the gap.

Frost Prices and Why Yours Is Different

Every Dutch Bros Frost size, with the ranges that actually turned up on receipts rather than one tidy national figure.

Checked August 2026 across shops in Arizona, Oregon and Texas. Add-ons run roughly $0.50 to $0.75 for an extra syrup or sauce, about $1.00 for an espresso shot, and $0.50 to $0.75 for alternative milk.

Search this drink and you’ll find sites swearing a small is $3.50 and others insisting it’s $6.00. Both are quoting real receipts. Neither is quoting yours.

Three things drive the gap. Dutch Bros prices by market, so California and dense metros sit above average while much of the Pacific Northwest and Midwest sits at or below it. Franchised shops have latitude of their own. And seasonal changeovers are a quiet, reliable moment for adjustments.

Dutch Rewards: Where the Value Actually Is

Points accrue on every purchase and redeem for free drinks, which matters more on a Dutch Bros Frost than on drip coffee simply because the base price is higher to begin with.

The birthday drink is any size and any build, so spend it on a large specialty Frost rather than a plain vanilla. Buying two a month, the app has already paid for itself.

Frost Calories, Sugar and Caffeine

The figures below cover the flavors people order most, rounded from the official Dutch Bros nutritional guide. Caffeine is the easy column, because it stays at zero all the way down unless you add a shot yourself.

Does a Frost Have Caffeine?

No. A standard Dutch Bros Frost is 0mg, because the base is ice cream and the flavor comes from syrup rather than coffee. That holds for every flavor on the board.

It’s the practical reason this is the safest section of the menu for kids and for anyone cutting caffeine after lunch. Coffee-named picks like Ninja stay caffeine-free unless you add a shot yourself.

The Sugar Problem

This is the number worth looking at twice. Published figures put a Cookie Frost near 123g of sugar and a Vanilla Bean Frost around 115g in the larger sizes.

For scale, the American Heart Association caps added sugar at 25g a day for women and 36g for men. One large clears that several times over before you reach the bottom of the cup.

Lowest-Calorie Frost Orders

A kids Frost with a single syrup is the floor at roughly 280 calories. A small with almond milk and no Soft Top lands near 340, which is the best flavor-per-calorie deal here.

Half pumps is the single most effective ask on the whole Frost menu, and almost nobody makes it. It cuts sugar noticeably while leaving the flavor you came for completely intact.

Sizes, Milks and How to Customize

This is where a Dutch Bros Frost stops being a menu item and starts being yours. Three levers do most of the work across the Frost menu: the milk, the pump count, and whatever goes on top.

Every Milk Option and What It Does

2% is the default and the most neutral choice. Oat thickens it and pushes the whole thing sweeter. Almond thins it out and is the lightest option that still tastes good.

Breve makes it luxurious and adds a couple of hundred calories without tasting like it did. Coconut is the wild card, and it only really works inside chocolate or tropical builds.

How to Make a Frost Less Sweet

Say “half pumps” and the Broista will do it without blinking. It’s the fix that turns Cotton Candy and Birthday Cake from unbearable into something you can finish.

Script: “Medium Frost, half pumps, no Soft Top, light drizzle.” Order it that way once and the default build starts tasting like a mistake.

Soft Top, Drizzles and Add-ins

Soft Top adds somewhere between 60 and 100 calories. Drizzles are essentially pure sugar, so asking for a light drizzle keeps the look and drops a real chunk of it.

An espresso shot runs about 90mg of caffeine. Cookie crumble, sprinkles and fresh banana are available at most shops, and each add-on lands around $0.50 to $0.75.

Dairy-Free, Vegan and Allergy Reality

This section matters more than its length suggests, so I’ll be blunt. A Dutch Bros Frost cannot be made fully dairy-free, no matter which milk you swap in.

The ice cream base contains dried milk solids and it can’t be left out, because it is the drink. Swapping to almond, oat or coconut changes the milk, not the base.

If you avoid dairy by preference or for mild lactose sensitivity, that swap may be enough for you. If you’re vegan, or managing a dairy allergy or real intolerance, this isn’t a safe order.

Better calls in that case are the Dutch Bros smoothies, the lemonades, or an iced drink built on oat milk with no blended base. Dutch Bros publishes its own dairy-free drinks guidance, but formulations shift by supplier and region, so ask at the window if it’s an allergy rather than a preference.

Kids Frost – What Parents Should Know

The 10 oz kids size exists, sits around $3.95, and is easy to miss because most boards don’t show it. It sits alongside the rest of the Dutch Bros Kids menu and runs roughly 280 calories against 500 for a medium.

Three things worth having ready. It’s caffeine-free like every Frost. It is not dairy-free and can’t be made so. And half pumps cuts the sugar without your kid noticing.

Vanilla and strawberry are the picks here. Cotton Candy and Dinosaur Egg are the two parents most often regret twenty minutes into a car journey.

Seasonal Frost Calendar – What’s Available When

Nothing about the Frost menu base changes through the year. What rotates is everything poured into it, so a flavor you loved in October is genuinely gone by February.

Exact Frost flavors shift each year, so treat this as the shape of the calendar rather than a promise. Fall lands earlier than most people expect, usually in the last week of August.

If a seasonal syrup is still on the shelf past its window, most shops will still pour it. Ask by ingredient instead of by drink name and you’ll get a yes more often.

How to Order a Frost (Copy-Paste Scripts)

Say the size, then the word Frost, then the build. Broistas take orders in that order and it keeps the whole thing inside one breath.

Ordering ahead in the app skips the speaker entirely, and every customization above exists in the builder. It’s also the only reliable way to see your own shop’s real prices.

Two drive-thru habits worth keeping. Decide before you reach the speaker, and name your syrups rather than a nickname when the shop is slammed.

Frost vs. Starbucks and the Rest

Every chain sells a blended sweet drink, and they are not competing on the same thing. Here is how a Dutch Bros Frost lines up against the obvious alternatives before the argument starts.

Figures are approximate for a medium or grande and vary by market. Starbucks wins on caffeine, since the Frappuccino carries coffee by default and a Frost carries none at all.

Dutch Bros wins on build. No other chain hands you thirty-plus syrups and lets you stack three of them into a blended drink without treating it like a special request.

Where Dutch Bros loses is default sweetness. Starbucks trains customers to modify. Dutch Bros pours it sweet and waits for you to ask, so ask.

Where to Find a Frost (And What If There Isn’t One Near You)

The chain isn’t everywhere yet, so this matters more than it should. Here’s where you’ll find a window, and what to do when the nearest one is a few hours out.

States With Dutch Bros Locations

Dutch Bros runs more than a thousand shops and the map is lopsided. The chain is dense across Oregon, California, Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah.

Newer growth markets include Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Tennessee and Florida. Those are also where most of the “what even is a Frost” questions come from, since the brand is still new there.

The Northeast is still empty. No shops in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts or Pennsylvania, so the nearest window is a road trip rather than an errand.

No Shop Nearby? Make It at Home

The Dutch Bros Frost base is easier to copy than people assume. Blend two scoops of vanilla ice cream with a splash of milk and two tablespoons of syrup until it’s thick enough to resist the straw.

For an Oreo version, add three crushed cookies before the final pulse. For a Golden Eagle, use half & half instead of milk, a tablespoon each of vanilla and caramel, then finish with a caramel drizzle.

The Verdict – What to Order First

Best overall: the Oreo Frost. It’s the one that converts skeptics, and the reason plenty of people order a second on the way home.

Best low-sugar: a kids size with one pump of vanilla and no Soft Top, at roughly 280 calories. Not glamorous, genuinely good.

Best if you want caffeine: any Frost with two shots added. You get the dessert texture and the espresso together, which no Freeze quite manages.

Start with caramel if you’re undecided. It’s the most forgiving flavor on the Frost menu, and it tells you within three sips whether this whole format is for you.