Dunkaroos

Whenever kids go back to school, I always think of my experiences from 1,000 years ago (just kidding, but the 90s and 2000s do seem strangely far away!) I remember hitting the grocery store with my mom and begging for all the trendy snacks, including Dunkaroos! What’s not to love about crispy graham cookies and creamy frosting with sprinkles? Well, the modern store-bought version seems to have a lot of mysterious ingredients I can’t pronounce, but my homemade recipe is just as good (if not better) and is made with staples you probably already have on hand! Let’s lean into some ’90s nostalgia and whip some up!

Homemade Dunkaroos Recipe

Dunkaroos were a widely popular lunchbox snack made up of mini cookies and frosting for dipping that launched in the 1990s. They got discontinued in 2012 in the U.S. (cue collective childhood tears), and while they’ve since made a comeback, they just don’t hit the same as the original!

My homemade Dunkaroos recipe captures that OG nostalgic flavor with cinnamon-spiced graham cookies and an easy vanilla frosting loaded with rainbow sprinkles (the kind you’d spread on a classic vanilla cake). To get that authentic graham cracker taste on a budget, I grind up actual graham crackers into flour and mix it with regular flour, then roll the dough super thin so the cookies bake up crispy and perfect for dipping. One dunk into that sprinkle-filled frosting and you’ll understand why an entire generation is still obsessed with this throwback snack.