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Popeyes sweetens its buttermilk biscuits with a flavor surprise

Chocolate comes to an iconic baked good, plus cheesecake gets swirled with caramel and apple, to add up to two new desserts on the chicken chain’s menu.
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Two new desserts launch at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, with chocolate, caramel and apple flavors in the spotlight. | Photo courtesy of Popeyes.

Lovers of Popeyes’ iconic buttermilk biscuits can now get their favorite bakery item with a burst of chocolate.

Chocolate Chip Biscuits arrive on the chicken chain’s menu Monday, along with a second sweet: Apple Caramel Cheesecake. Both are squarely aimed at dessert fans.

The new chocolatey version is based on the same soft, buttery biscuit, then filled with chocolate chips and drizzled with white icing. Chocolate Chip Biscuits follow in the wake of Strawberry Biscuits, a popular variation introduced last March as an LTO that has since moved to the permanent menu.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is also introducing a new Apple Caramel Cheesecake, an individual dessert featuring a rich cheesecake filling swirled with caramel and apple over a buttery graham cracker crust.

In addition, starting a week later on August 12, the Miami, Florida-based chicken chain is testing out a couple of bundled deals with its new $20 and $25 Bigger Boxes. The $20 Bigger Box includes 10 pieces of the brand’s signature fried chicken or 10 tenders, along with four original buttermilk biscuits, while the $25 Bigger Box offers 10 pieces of chicken, four regular sides and four biscuits.

Also returning this season is the best-selling $6.99 Big Box, which includes two pieces of chicken or three tenders, two regular sides and a buttermilk biscuit. 

Participating locations of the 3,000+-unit fast-food chain will offer the new menu additions for a limited time.

Popeyes is in growth mode, surpassing KFC for the first time as the country’s largest bone-in chicken chain. Menu innovation has played a large part in that surge, first with the brand’s famous chicken sandwich that literally ignited a QSR battle for category dominance, and more recently, with its new chicken wings.

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