McDonald’s unveils holiday menu with new cookie butter drinks

5 beverages, featuring 3 cookie butter coffees and 2 cold-foam cranberry drinks, arrive at participating locations on Nov. 3

McDonald's holiday beverage lineup includes the Red Bull Frosted Cranberry Energizer, Cookie Butter Frappé, and Frosted Cranberry Splash with Sprite | ©Image Credit: McDonald's

McDonald’s has five new holiday drinks coming to its U.S. restaurants starting Nov. 3.

Two of them have cranberry in them. The other three are coffees with cookie butter. McDonald’s says they’ll be around for a limited time, and only participating locations will have them.

The cranberry drinks are the Red Bull Frosted Cranberry Energizer and the Frosted Cranberry Splash with Sprite. Both have an orange-cranberry flavor and come topped with cold foam and cranberry sprinkles.

The coffee drinks are a Cookie Butter Latte, a Cookie Butter Iced Coffee, and a Cookie Butter Frappé. They taste like caramel and spice and have vanilla whipped cream and caramel cookie crumbs on top. McDonald’s is putting them on the McCafé menu in place of its Caramel Apple Pie drinks.

The cranberry Energizer can be ordered with regular Red Bull or Red Bull Zero, according to People. The drink marks the second collaboration with the brand following the Aug. 17 launch of the Dragonberry Energizer, which McDonald’s rolled out across participating U.S. restaurants, thus making its foray into energy drinks.

The earlier version combined Red Bull with blue raspberry syrup and freeze-dried dragonfruit. McDonald’s also introduced Vanilla Swirl drinks made with Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, or Coke Zero Sugar and a cold foam topping.

The holiday lineup continues this expansion, bringing seasonal flavors to both its coffee and non-coffee drinks rather than limiting the menu to a single festive latte. Customers will have hot, iced, and blended coffee options alongside the two new seasonal cranberry drinks as well.

Sources: McDonald’s, Allrecipes, People