There is no official Tim Hortons secret menu. That is the honest start, and this page does not pretend otherwise. No hidden list sits behind the counter, no code word opens a second menu board, and Tim Hortons has never published one. What does exist is a long Canadian habit of ordering off the script: regulars who ask for standard items built in a different way, counts of cream and sugar said out loud, two drinks poured into one cup, a hash brown tucked inside a sandwich. Every build on this page is one of those custom orders, and every one of them can be refused. A store can decline any custom build, and busy stores at busy times often do.
So this page holds itself to one test, and it is a strict one. A build is listed only if every part of it is a real item in the official Tim Hortons Nutrition Guide, Canadian Edition, July 2026: the base item, and every add-on, swap and extra. If a famous fan build needs something the guide does not list, it is not on this page, and the last section names the ones that failed the test and why. No build here carries an invented price, and none carries an invented calorie total either. Where a number appears, it is one item’s own figure from the guide, labelled as that item’s figure.
Secret menu at a glance
- Official secret menu at Tim Hortons: none. Everything below is a custom order.
- Builds on this page: 15, and every part of every one is an item in the official July 2026 guide.
- The rule that gets a build made: order the parts, not the fan name. Staff ring up ingredients, not internet names.
- The price rule: a build costs what its parts cost at that store. There is no secret menu price list.
- The refusal rule: any store can say no to any build, and a no at the counter is the end of it.
How ordering a custom item works
Say the parts, in order, in plain words. “A medium Iced Capp with a chocolate Timbit on top” gets made. The fan name for that drink gets a blank look at most counters, because the name is not on the register and the parts are. Keep the ask short: one base item and one or two changes is the range that works. Every extra step is another chance for the order to come out wrong, and at a drive-thru speaker it is another chance to be misheard.
The app suits fussy orders better than the speaker does. You can stack the changes the app offers without a line of cars behind you, and what you tap is what gets made. Anything that needs a person to judge it, like a hash brown inside a sandwich or a donut warmed up, is a counter order, and it goes better outside the morning rush. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon crews have the time for a two-step build. The 8 a.m. drive-thru line does not.
One more habit separates the builds that work from the ones that fail. Ask for things the kitchen already has in hand, in the form it already has them. A Timbit set on top of a drink is a thing the counter can hand you. A Timbit put through the blender is not, and staff will refuse it. The builds below were picked with that line in mind.
Coffee, counted out loud
The oldest custom orders in Canada are not recipes at all. They are counts. Cream and sugar go into a brewed coffee by number, the guide lists both as standard additions, and the count is the whole order.
Triple Triple
Three creams and three sugars in a brewed coffee. The Double Double is the two and two version, and it has its own page on this site. The Triple Triple is the same idea one step up: sweeter, creamier, and ordered with the same three words at any counter in the country. The guide lists a Medium cream addition at 60 calories and a Medium sugar addition at 35, and those are the parts doing the work. The coffee under them, a Medium Original Blend taken black, is 4 calories.
Ask for it: “A medium Triple Triple.” Every crew in Canada knows this one, because it is not really a secret. It is just counting.
The Wayne Gretzky
Nine creams and nine sugars in one coffee, named for the number 99 Wayne Gretzky wore. This is the most famous custom order in the country and the least sensible one. The cup comes out white, the sugar barely dissolves, and most people who order it once tell the story for years and never order it again. It is on this page because it is real fan lore and because its parts pass the test: brewed coffee, cream and sugar, all standard guide items, counted out loud.
Ask for it at the counter, not by name alone: “A large coffee with nine cream and nine sugar.” Go in expecting a laugh and a possible no. Both are fair.
Cold custom drinks
Chocolate Timbit Iced Capp
An Iced Capp with a chocolate Timbit set on top. Fans call the build an 8 Ball. The Timbit sits on top of the drink like a garnish you eat first, or dunk. Order the Timbit as its own item and ask for it on top, because the blender version of this idea is a request staff refuse: Timbits do not go in the blender. Fan versions pile whipped topping under the Timbit. The official guide lists no whipped topping, so this build stays with the two items the guide does list.
The parts, from the guide: a Medium Original Iced Capp is 330 calories on its own, and a Chocolate Glazed Timbit is 80 on its own. Ask for it: “A medium Iced Capp and a chocolate Timbit on top, please.”
Caramel Vanilla Iced Coffee
An iced coffee with both caramel toffee syrup and vanilla syrup in it. The standard iced coffee build is already sweet, and this is the version for people who want it to taste like dessert. Both syrups are standard guide additions: the Caramel Toffee Syrup and the Vanilla Syrup each sit at 30 calories a serving in the guide. The base, a Medium Original Iced Coffee, is 150 calories and 22 g of sugar before the extra syrups go in, so this build climbs fast.
Ask for it: “A medium iced coffee with caramel and vanilla syrup.” If it comes out too sweet, the fix next time is one syrup, not two.
Hot custom drinks
Chai White Hot Chocolate
A white hot chocolate made half and half with a chai latte. The fan version of this drink steeps a chai tea bag in the cup. This build pours the two guide drinks together instead, half of each in one cup, which gets the same spiced, milky result with parts any store can ring up. A Medium White Hot Chocolate is 330 calories on its own in the guide, and a Medium Chai Latte is 230 on its own.
Ask for it: “A white hot chocolate, half and half with a chai latte.” It tastes like the spiced end of the holidays, and it is the build on this page most likely to become a regular order.
The Kinder Egg build
Half hot chocolate, half white hot chocolate, with vanilla syrup. Fans named it after the chocolate egg with the two-tone shell, and the cup does come out two chocolates deep: the regular hot chocolate brings the cocoa, the white brings the creaminess, and the syrup rounds it off. All three parts are guide items. A Medium Hot Chocolate is 280 calories on its own, a Medium White Hot Chocolate is 330 on its own, and the Vanilla Syrup addition is 30.
Ask for it: “Half hot chocolate, half white hot chocolate, with vanilla syrup.” Use the parts, not the name. The name means nothing at the register.
Half Hot Chocolate, Half French Vanilla
Two of the sweetest drinks on the board, poured half and half. The French Vanilla Cappuccino is the drink half the country orders by default, and cutting it with hot chocolate turns it into a mocha leaning cup with no coffee in it at all. A Medium French Vanilla Cappuccino is 330 calories and 39 g of sugar on its own in the guide, and the Medium Hot Chocolate is 280 calories on its own.
Ask for it: “Half hot chocolate, half French vanilla.” It is a rich cup. A small is the wiser first try.
Half Steeped Tea, Half French Vanilla
Half a cup of steeped tea topped up with French vanilla. This one comes from the people behind the counter: staff trading their strangest real orders have listed it more than once, half tea and half French vanilla in one cup. The tea keeps it light and the French vanilla does the flavouring. Steeped Tea sits at 0 calories in the guide, with nothing added, so the whole build leans on the French Vanilla half for its taste.
Ask for it: “A steeped tea, half and half with French vanilla.” It sounds wrong and drinks well, which is the mark of half the builds on this page.
Peanut Butter White Hot Chocolate
A white hot chocolate with a peanut butter portion stirred in. Fans call it a Reese’s white hot chocolate. Order it as a do it yourself build, because staff will not stir it in for you: one employee quoted on the subject put it plainly, they cannot make it for you, but you can ask for peanut butter on the side. Peanut butter is a standard bagel topping in the guide at 110 calories a portion, so the part exists. Buy the drink, get the peanut butter on the side, stir it in at the table while the drink is hot.
The base, a Medium White Hot Chocolate, is 330 calories on its own. Ask for it: “A white hot chocolate, and a peanut butter portion on the side.”
Timbits in Hot Chocolate
A hot chocolate with Timbits dropped in by you, at the table. They soften in the heat and drink like dumplings in cocoa. This is a self assembly build: order a hot chocolate and a few Timbits, and do the dropping yourself, because the counter will not do it for you. Honey Dip, Chocolate Glazed and Sour Cream Glazed are the flavours that hold up best in the heat. A Medium Hot Chocolate is 280 calories on its own in the guide, and each Timbit brings its own figure from the bakery case.
Ask for it: “A medium hot chocolate and three Timbits.” What happens after that is your business.
Custom food builds
Hash Brown Breakfast Sandwich
A breakfast sandwich with the hash brown inside it instead of beside it. This is the most ordered food build on the page, and the easiest to explain: the hash brown is already part of half the breakfast combos in the country, and this just moves it into the sandwich, where it adds crunch. An Egg & Cheese English Muffin is 270 calories on its own in the guide, and a Hash Brown is 120 on its own. Any sandwich on the breakfast board can carry it.
The harder version swaps the bread for two hash brown patties as the bun. It exists, staff have made it, and it falls apart in your hands. The inside version is the one to order. Ask for it: “Can you put the hash brown inside the sandwich?”
Honey Cruller Breakfast Sandwich
A sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich built on a sliced honey cruller instead of a muffin or biscuit. Sweet, salty and rich, and the build fans talk about most at the food end of the secret menu. The parts all exist: the Honey Cruller Donut is 320 calories on its own in the guide, and the sausage sandwich it borrows its filling from, the Sausage English Muffin, is 450 on its own. Be ready for this one to be a no. Slicing a donut for a sandwich is a judgment call, and some crews will not make it.
The fallback always works: order the sandwich and the cruller, and build it at the table. Ask for it: “A sausage breakfast sandwich, and a honey cruller on the side,” then assemble it yourself if the counter says no to the swap.
PB&J Bagel
A toasted bagel with peanut butter and jam. Nothing about it is on the board as a sandwich, and every part of it is a standard bagel topping in the guide: Peanut Butter at 110 calories a portion, and the Strawberry Jam Packet or Raspberry Jam Packet at 60 each. The Plain Bagel under them is 290 calories on its own. It is the simplest build on this page, and the one a kid would invent, which is probably how it started.
Ask for it: “A toasted bagel with peanut butter and jam.” It costs what a bagel with toppings costs, because that is exactly what it is.
Veggie Sandwich
Any lunch sandwich or wrap with the meat left off. There is no veggie sandwich on the lunch board, so this is how vegetarians build one: pick the sandwich whose fillings you want and hold the meat. The BLT without the bacon and the Turkey Bacon Club without the turkey and bacon are the two usual starting points. A BLT Sandwich is 490 calories on its own in the guide, with the meat in. Taking parts out is the easiest custom ask there is, and no store needs anything extra in the kitchen to do it.
Ask for it: “The club sandwich, with no meat.” Everything else the sandwich already carries stays as it is.
Warmed Donut
Any donut or cookie, warmed up. Fans call the trick warm treats, and it is a technique, not a recipe: ten seconds of heat turns a Honey Dip soft and makes a chocolate donut taste fresh from the rack. The grilled version presses a Honey Dip on the sandwich press until the glaze turns crisp. A Honey Dip Donut is 250 calories on its own in the guide, warmed or not. Warming changes no figure the guide prints.
Ask for it: “Can you warm this up?” Some stores will, some will not, and it is worth asking every time, because a warm donut is a better donut.
What a custom order costs
There is no secret menu price list, because there is no secret menu. A custom order rings up as its parts on the register, and that is the whole pricing story. You pay for the base item. Anything that is its own menu item rides along at its own price: the Timbit on the Iced Capp, the hash brown in the sandwich, the peanut butter on the side. Syrup shots, extra cream and sugar counts, and swaps are charged at each store’s own rates, and stores differ. One location adds a syrup for free and the next charges for it, the same way the same medium coffee costs a little more in one town than the next.
Two kinds of build cost nothing extra in parts. Removals are free by nature: a sandwich with no meat and a coffee with no sugar use less of the store’s stock, not more. Technique asks, like a warmed donut, add no part at all. Everything else, expect the parts on your receipt, and read the total before you tap. The base items behind every build here, with their checked prices, sit on the Prices page.
Famous builds that did not make this page
The test at the top of this page cut some famous names, and they deserve a plain accounting.
The Red Eye, a brewed coffee with an espresso shot, and the Coffee Crisp hot chocolate, a white hot chocolate with a shot of espresso, both fail on the same part: the official guide lists no standalone espresso shot as an addition, so this page cannot verify the part and does not print the builds. Stores with espresso machines may still pour you one. The Kit Kat drinks fail on time, not parts: they were an official limited-time lineup in 2023, not a secret menu item, and the lineup is gone. The Cotton Candy frozen lemonade fails on its base, because the guide lists no raspberry lemonade for it to start from. And the London Fog fails in the other direction: it sounds like a secret order, tea with steamed milk and vanilla, but it sits in the guide as a regular menu item with its own row, so it is not a secret at all. It is just a drink you can order by name.
Check the parts yourself
Every item named on this page can be looked up in the same source it was checked against. The Nutrition Facts page carries the full official guide, all 346 items, so any build you dream up can be tested the same way this page tested its own: if every part is in the guide, the build is real enough to ask for. The whole regular menu sits on the Full Menu page, and the bases behind these builds live on the Hot Drinks, Cold Drinks and Donuts pages. What the base items cost is on the Prices page.