Wondering which McDonald’s iced coffee you should order and overwhelmed by the 15 different options on the menu at the McCafe? We were too, so we decided to order one of EVERYTHING on the McDonald’s iced coffee menu to compare them all.
Here’s what we found out, so that you can pick the best McDonald’s iced coffee for you.
Types of McDonald’s Iced Coffees
It’s not literally just iced coffee on the menu! You can order not only an iced coffee, but also an iced latte, iced mocha or a frappe. Those are the categories of iced coffees, and each category has multiple drink options.
We are going to review all the drinks as grouped with their category.
Iced Coffees
Pictured above is all five of the actual iced coffee options. These come in small, medium and large sizes. We ordered a size small for all the McDonald’s iced coffee flavors in this comparison.
The small size in iced coffee is a bigger drink than the small iced lattes, iced mochas or frappes. So if you want the most to drink, consider that. What does McDonald’s iced coffee taste like? Let’s find out!
The Iced Caramel Coffee is an iced coffee that has coffee, milk, liquid sugar and caramel flavoring.
Andrea did not like this drink very much and decided that the caramel flavoring tasted fake and weird. If you like McDonald’s caramel flavoring, you might feel differently.
The Iced Coffee is the default, plain iced coffee option. It comes with coffee, milk and liquid sugar as the default choice. If you’re the type of person who likes your iced coffee black, or with no sugar or no milk, you can order it that way. Andrea liked this option as her second favorite, although she felt the iced coffee did not have as rich of a coffee taste as the iced lattes.
The Vanilla Iced Coffee is the McDonald’s iced coffee with milk, coffee, ice liquid sugar and vanilla flavoring. Andrea liked this iced coffee the best of all the iced coffee options and thought that the vanilla flavoring was not too overpowering and was an enjoyable level of sweetness.
The Sugar Free Vanilla Iced Coffee was not good, according to Andrea. Granted, she doesn’t drink a lot of diet drinks or sugar free drinks, so it might be better if you’re used to it. She thought the artificial sweetener taste was too obvious and didn’t taste good and had an aftertaste.
The Hazelnut Iced Coffee has milk, coffee, ice, liquid sugar and hazelnut flavoring. Andrea found this one to be a pleasant hazelnut flavor that was not too intense, and one of the better of the iced coffee options.
Here’s a video where she tasted them all.
Iced Lattes
We found the McDonald’s iced lattes to be much tastier than the iced coffees, with a much richer coffee taste. We would have expected the ones called “iced coffee” to have the strongest coffee flavor, since a latte is typically mostly milk with just a small shot of espresso at most coffee shops. But at McDonald’s, this is where we got the most coffee flavor!
The plain McDonald’s Iced Latte was Andrea’s favorite, because she thought it was rich and creamy with a nice and strong coffee flavor, but not too sweet.
Andrea did not like the McDonald’s Iced Hazelnut Latte at all, because she disliked the hazelnut flavoring. If you’re a big hazelnut fan, you might disagree with her.
The McDonald’s Sugar Free Iced French Vanilla Latte was another big miss for Andrea. She did not like the artificial sweetener taste. The coffee taste was still good and it was nice and creamy, however.
The McDonald’s Iced French Vanilla Latte was creamy with a good coffee and vanilla flavor, and not overly sweet according to Andrea.
Frappe Drinks
The McDonald’s Iced Mocha was really more of a mocha flavored iced coffee with whipped cream on top and not a milkshake like drink like the other frappes. She thought it was not overly sweet and found it to be her favorite of the three.
Andrea thought that the McDonald’s Mocha Frappe was delicious, with a nice mocha taste and a milkshake like consistency and gave it a big vote of YES!
On the other hand, Andrea felt that the McDonald’s Caramel Frappe had an artificial caramel taste and did not like it.
Hopefully this review will help you decide which iced coffee McDonald’s offers that sounds best to you. Lots of good choices here.
Which drink is your own personal favorite, and why?