Last Updated on January 31, 2023 by Jim Edwards
Tim Hortons is a global restaurant change based in Toronto. However, there are restaurants in Canada, America, The UK, and even the Middle East. The restaurant is most known as a Coffee and Donuts shop, but they also serve other items. For example, they have a breakfast menu, a sandwich menu. In addition, they have other snack and dessert options such as bagels, croissants, cookies, muffins, cake, and cheesecake.
The name of the restaurant comes from one of the founders, Tim Horton. Tim Horton is a famous hockey player. He played for multiple teams in the NHL, although he spent most of his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he helped the club win 4 Stanley Cups. Horton also played for the New York Rangers, The Pittsburgh Penguins, and The Buffalo Sabres. He was a Sabre when he died, traveling from a game in Toronto back to Buffalo. Unfortunately, he lost control of his sports car and perished on February 21, 1974.
In 1977 Horton was posthumously entered into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1982 the Buffalo Sabres posthumously inducted him into the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame. In 1996, The Buffalo Sabres retired his number. Horton played with the #2 in Buffalo, and no other Sabre will ever wear that number again. In 2017, the Toronto Maple Leafs retired the number 7, the jersey number worn by Horton during his time as a Maple Leaf.
Years after his death, hockey fans flock to the restaurant bearing his name for food and snacks every day. However, many hard-core Hockey fans or Tim Horton restaurant lovers do not know about the secret items you can get at their favorite dessert and coffee shop. So keep on reading to find secret menu items for your next trip to Tim Horton’s.
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Our Favorite Tim Horton’s Secret Menu Items
Are you looking for something new and delicious to try at Tim Hortons? Check out the top 15 Tim Horton secret menu items and hacks below!
Tim Horton’s Hot Coffee Hacks
Coffee Crisp Coffee
The coffee crisp is a popular candy bar that is difficult to find outside of Canada. Ask for a coffee crisp drink next time you visit Tim Hortons.
If they do not know how to make it, all they need to do is add two espresso shots to your hot chocolate.
Imitation Mocha Drink
This is so simple you are going to wonder how you did not think of it yourself.
Ask the Tim Hortons employee to make you a drink that is half hot chocolate, half coffee. So simple but yet so delicious.
Tim Horton’s Hot Chocolate Hacks
The Chocolate Explosion
Hot chocolate is delicious by itself, by why limit your chocolate intake to just the liquid.
Ask for your hot chocolate to be topped with chocolate whipped cream. Still not enough – they will put a timbit on top of any drink if asked. Ask for a chocolate Timbit, or chocolate Timbit crumbs on top of the chocolate whipped cream.
White Hot Chocolate
White hot chocolate is a Christmas-themed hot cocoa with peppermint. People love when this drink comes out every year, and they are sad to see it go.
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Christmas is not the only time you can enjoy peppermint and chocolate together in your hot drink. Ask for a white hot chocolate anytime – just add the cashier to add a peppermint tea bag to your hot cocoa.
Note: for the white-hot chocolate, you can ask for a shot of mint as well. Still, you may need to settle on the mint teabag if they only carry mint syrup during the holiday season.
Chai Tea White Hot
Want to combine chocolate and chai? Who doesn’t?
Ask for a white-hot and a chai tea bag.
Raspberry White Hot
This is a hack upon a hack – but well worth it. This is a hot chocolate with peppermint and raspberry.
Ask for a raspberry white hot, which is hot chocolate, peppermint tea bag, and a raspberry shot.
Pumpkin Pie Drink
This is a seasonal drink that may not be available year-round to make it. Therefore, they need to have pumpkin spice syrup in stock. The pumpkin pie drink is a white hot chocolate with a pumpkin spice shot.
Ask for a pumpkin pie drink, and if they do not know how to make it tell them to add a peppermint tea back and a shot of pumpkin spice syrup.
Apple Cinnamon Drink
Here is yet another hack that uses the white-hot to create a brand new drink. Want a delicious and refreshing apple drink – check out this hack.
Get a white-hot (hot chocolate and a peppermint tea bag) and ask for an apple cinnamon tea bag as well. Refreshing Autumn Drink!
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Tim Horton’s Frozen and Cold Drink Hacks
Chocolate Raspberry Iced Capp
A normal Iced Capp is a creamy frozen coffee drink. Although frozen coffee drinks can be delicious all aloe without alterations, changing this into a chocolate raspberry iced capp will really up the flavor factor.
Want to try one – just ask for a Chocolate Raspberry Iced Capp. If your Tim Hortons employee does not know how to make it tell them to add chocolate milk and a raspberry shot.
Iced Nutella Drink
Do you love Nutella and eat it out of the jar with a spoon? If Nutella is one of your favorite foods/spreads ever made, you are going to want to try the iced Nutella drink.
Order an Iced Capp and ask them to add some hazelnut flavor syrup. After that, you may never go back to traditional iced capps again.
Lemon Meringue Pie Drink
Sometimes you want more than just a frozen lemonade. If you are in a decadent mood and want a fun pie-inspired drink, consider this one.
Ask for a lemon meringue pie drink which is a frozen lemonade with whipped topping mixed in.
Green Tea Lemonade
Bring your Tim Horton experience up to the next level by combining lemonade and green tea in the perfect summertime drink. The end result will be a refreshing ice tea with a strong lemon flavor.
Ask for frozen lemonade and request them to add a small amount of green tea to it.
Cotton Candy Chill
This is a very iconic and complicated secret menu item. If you love cotton candy, this is a very sweet drink that is perfect for a hot summary day.
To order: order a frozen raspberry lemonade. Ask them to substitute the lemon flavor for vanilla. And then ask them to put cream in before adding the ice. Finish it off with whipped cream on top and you end up with this:
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Tim Horton’s Sandwich Hacks
Use The Hash Browns Wisely
There are a few things you can do with the hash browns to make a new sandwich. The first one is to have the hash browns placed into your breakfast sandwich instead of on the side. This creates a more filling sandwich that has a crunch.
The second thing you can do is use hash browns as a meat substitute. If you are a vegetarian or are just cutting back on meat products, you can ask for hash browns in your breakfast sandwich or wrap instead of meat.
Veggie Bagel
If you want to have a veggie sandwich ask for a sandwich on a bagel and hold the meat. This will create a delicious vegetable on bagel sandwich you can enjoy, even if it is not specifically on the menu.
If you are looking for no animal products, get it dry without the cream cheese.
Tim Horton’s Donut Hacks
Warm it Up
This is not really about changing up the ingredients but making them taste better. So, for example, if you visit Tim Hortons during off-hours, where their product is not exceptionally fresh, you can simply ask them to warm up your donut in the toaster or the microwave.
Video: A Food Critic Eats Tim Horton’s Secret Menu
If you want to see all of this items in a great video and hear what a well known food critic thinks of the taste and flavor, this video is worth a watch!
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In Summary
Honestly, Tim Hortons will serve whatever you want within reason!
Think about all the different flavor syrup shots and tea bags they have available. You can add the shots to any drinks as well as the tea bags. So you have an endless amount of flavor combinations to try.
Although not explicitly listed, think of these possibilities – blueberry tea bag, green tea bag, and lemonade = Blueberry-Lemon Iced Tea. So how easy was that?
Not think about your favorite flavors and find new ways to utilize them in drinks today.
We have other amazing secret menus from other coffeeshops, including: Dunkin Donuts Secret Menu, Philz Coffee Secret Menu and Dutch Bros Secret Menu.
If you’ve ever wondered what a secret menu is – we wrote a blog post to explain!
Image Credit: “Tim Hortons coffee” by Ashton Emanuel is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
I’m Jim Edwards and I started this website to share my love of Junk Food. We cover new junk food, desserts, snack foods, fast food secret menus, candy (of course!) and other related news. We love trying “secret menus” at restaurants. And we love trying new products too. So, we are trying to have some fun with our hobby and share some useful information with you, our community. Please feel to send us your suggestions and feedback through the contact form. And if you have products you would like us to try, let us know…!