Homemade Dunkalatte Recipe

A Dunkalatte is a latte made with coffee milk instead of plain milk: espresso poured over whole milk that has been sweetened with coffee syrup. For two iced drinks, simmer three tablespoons of sugar with three tablespoons of strong coffee into a syrup, stir it into two cups of cold whole milk, pour over ice and add two shots of espresso to each glass.

What is a Dunkalatte?

Dunkin' introduced it with its fall menu on 28 August 2024 and described it as an "ultra-smooth drink that sips like a latte and tastes like a melty milkshake". It is espresso combined with coffee milk, and Dunkin' makes its coffee milk from whole milk and its own coffee extract.

So a Dunkalatte has coffee in it twice: once in the milk and once as espresso. The copy here replaces Dunkin's coffee extract with a home-made coffee syrup. It is a reconstruction; MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Dunkin'.

Recipe

Dunkalatte

A reconstruction of Dunkin's Dunkalatte — espresso over coffee milk, made from whole milk and a quick coffee syrup. Two iced drinks.

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Prep

5 min

Cook

5 min

Total

10 min

Serves

2

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoons strong brewed coffee
• 2 cups whole milk, cold
• 1/2 cup freshly brewed espresso (4 shots)
• 2 cups ice cubes, for serving

Instructions

1. Make the coffee syrup: simmer the sugar and the strong coffee in a small saucepan for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved and the syrup has thickened slightly. It makes about 1/4 cup. Let it cool.
2. Stir the syrup into the cold milk. This is coffee milk.
3. Fill two 16-ounce glasses with ice and pour 1 cup of coffee milk into each.
4. Pour 2 shots of espresso over each glass and stir.

Nutrition

Calories:

220

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Coffee milk comes from Rhode Island

Coffee milk is milk mixed with coffee syrup, the way chocolate milk is made with chocolate syrup. It has been Rhode Island's official state drink since 1993. The syrup is traditionally made by running hot water and sugar through coffee grounds, and the most popular brand in Rhode Island is Autocrat.

A bottle of coffee syrup replaces the first step of the recipe: stir 2 tablespoons into each cup of milk.

Hot Dunkalatte

Heat the coffee milk in a saucepan until it steams, without letting it boil. Froth it with a whisk or a milk frother and pour it over the espresso in a mug.

Strength and sweetness

• Stronger: make the syrup with espresso instead of brewed coffee.
• Less sweet: use 2 tablespoons each of sugar and coffee in the syrup.
• Decaf: decaf espresso, and decaf coffee in the syrup. The method does not change.
• Other milks: Dunkin' uses whole milk. Oat milk works and makes a thinner drink.

Dunkin's other espresso drink on this site is the brown sugar shaken espresso.

For coffee at home without the espresso, there is the Dunkin' creamer, and the Dunkin' Brownie Batter Donut goes with all three.