McDonalds drops two brand-new sandwich creations that fans are already craving
For a limited time, McDonald’s is helping customers rise and shine with a bougie addition.The fast-food titan is elevating breakfast with two new offerings that feel more like a gourmet brunch than a standard drive-through order.The Honey Brown Butter Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit and the Honey Brown Butter Chicken Biscuit are the latest menu additions, and while they’re set to officially launch nationwide on July 21, many locations are already serving the sammies.
The new sandwiches are not wildly different from the breakfast biscuits already in rotation; the former comes with folded egg, two half-strips of bacon, and American cheese, while the latter comes laden with a crispy chicken patty.What distinguishes these new biscuits from their plebeian predecessors is the new honey brown butter sauce.Beloved for its caramelized color and rich, nutty taste, brown butter, known in French as beurre noisette, is a staple of gourmet cooking, used for centuries to fortify flavors in both sweet and savory offerings.
The bougie butter has gone mainstream as of late, with Pillsbury launching brown butter cookie dough and McCormick bringing Brown Butter Finishing Salt to the table.While the butter is served on both of the namesake McDonald’s sandwiches, the sauce is also available as an upcharge on any other breakfast offering.Early adopters are celebrating.
“This combination is sweet, savory, and just delicious,” proclaimed a recent TikTok post.Content creator Redneck Snack was similarly stoked, giving the sauce a 10/10 review.“That brown butter is absolutely delicious; it’s sweet, it’s rich.It just pairs so amazingly, and you can get it on anything you like.
If you like a melty, buttery, sweet sauce, I think you’re gonna love this one.” McDonald’s foray into brown butter is in keeping with current trends, with fast-food chains increasingly integrating epicurean ingredients: Popeyes is proudly serving black truffle on its chicken sandwich, and Arby...