Taco Bell Dirty Baja Blast Recipe

A dirty Baja Blast is Mountain Dew Baja Blast with a sweet vanilla creme swirled in; Taco Bell sells it as the Baja Blast dirty soda and first sold it as the Baja Blast Dream. To make one at home, pour a chilled 12-ounce can of Baja Blast over a cup of ice and add one tablespoon of French vanilla coffee creamer.

What is a dirty Baja Blast?

Taco Bell's menu describes the Mountain Dew Baja Blast dirty soda as its Baja Blast with "a sweet, vanilla creme swirled in". The drink arrived in January 2025 for a limited time as the Dirty Mountain Dew Baja Blast Dream, next to two Dream Freezes. In March 2026 Taco Bell made the idea permanent under the name Dirty Sips: the same creme in any soda, lemonade or Freeze, for 30 cents at launch.

The creme is a small part of the drink. On 1 October 2026 the drinks menu lists a large Baja Blast at 410 calories and the dirty one at 460. Those 50 calories are about four teaspoons of flavoured liquid creamer, which USDA lists at 251 calories per 100 grams. The recipe here is a copy made from that description, not Taco Bell's formula, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Taco Bell or PepsiCo.

Recipe

Dirty Baja Blast

A copy of Taco Bell's dirty Baja Blast, first sold as the Baja Blast Dream — Mountain Dew Baja Blast over ice with vanilla coffee creamer swirled in. One 16-ounce glass.

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Prep

3 min

Total

3 min

Serves

1

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 1 cup ice cubes
• 1 can (12 fluid ounces) Mountain Dew Baja Blast, chilled
• 1 tablespoon French vanilla liquid coffee creamer

Instructions

1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with the ice.
2. Pour the Baja Blast over the ice slowly, down the side of the glass, so it keeps its fizz.
3. Pour the creamer over the top and let it sink through the soda in swirls. Stir once, gently, and drink it through a straw.

Nutrition

Calories:

190

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.

What to use for the vanilla creme

Taco Bell does not publish what its creme is made of. The Takeout's review calls it a creamer and notes that it settles at the bottom of the cup and needs a swirl now and then. Three things do the job at home:

• French vanilla liquid coffee creamer, one tablespoon. It is sweetened and flavoured already, which is why the card uses it.
• Half-and-half and vanilla syrup, one tablespoon of each. The vanilla syrup on this site is sugar, water and vanilla extract.
• Heavy cream and vanilla syrup, in the same amounts, for a richer drink.

Plain milk is the one thing to avoid: the acid in a citrus soda curdles it into flecks. Pour the creamer last, over the ice, and stir only once. One tablespoon in a 12-ounce can is already a stronger mix than four teaspoons in Taco Bell's large cup; two tablespoons make a creamier drink.

How to make Baja Blast itself

Baja Blast is a tropical-lime flavour of Mountain Dew that PepsiCo created for Taco Bell's fountains in 2004. In January 2024 it became a permanent flavour in shops, so in the United States the simplest route is a can or a bottle.

Where it is not sold, the usual stand-in mixes three drinks. Food Republic gives it as equal thirds of Mountain Dew, Sprite and blue Powerade; The Takeout as one part Mountain Dew, one part blue Powerade or Gatorade and a splash of Sprite. For one 12-ounce glass by the first ratio:

• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) Mountain Dew
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) Sprite or another lemon-lime soda
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) blue Powerade

It is an approximation. The Takeout reports that those who have tried it disagree about how close it comes.

Baja Blast Freeze, zero sugar and other dirty sodas

• Freeze: blend the can of Baja Blast with 2 cups of ice until slushy, pour it into the glass and add the creamer. Taco Bell's menu lists this as the Baja Blast dirty soda Freeze.
• Zero sugar: Baja Blast Zero Sugar with a sugar-free vanilla creamer. Taco Bell lists its own zero-sugar dirty soda at 60 calories for a large.
• Other sodas: the same tablespoon of creamer goes into Pepsi or lemonade, both of which are on Taco Bell's Dirty Sips menu, and into regular Mountain Dew. The cola-side version on this site is the Dr Pepper cream soda.

Is there a Baja Blast with alcohol?

There is a canned one. Hard MTN Dew launched in February 2022 with Baja Blast among its four flavours, at 5 percent alcohol, with no caffeine and no added sugar. It is made by the Boston Beer Company with PepsiCo and went on sale first in Florida, Tennessee and Iowa.

For a mixed drink at home, 1 1/2 ounces of white rum or blanco tequila go over the ice before the soda. Keep the creamer to a teaspoon or leave it out.

What to eat with it

Two Taco Bell copies on this site go with it: the cheesy dipping burrito and the Crispy Chicken Nuggets.