Dairy Queen Drumstick Blizzard: What’s In It and Is It Still Available
CHECKING STATUS BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE
I keep seeing two different kinds of people search for this one. Some had it this summer and want to know if it’s still sitting there on the board. Others remember it from a past year and are wondering if it snuck back. I went and checked both angles properly instead of just listing a price like it’s sitting on the menu board right now, because as of today, it isn’t.
Prices and availability below are national patterns based on DQ’s standard pricing structure and public reporting, not a live quote from your specific location, confirm with your local store before making a trip for it.
Is the Drumstick Blizzard available right now?
No, not as a standard national offer. It ran as this year’s featured flavor through June 30, and I haven’t found anything confirming a fall return. That lines up with something I already confirmed while researching how the Blizzard of the Month program actually works: Pumpkin Pie has held DQ’s September and October slot for well over a decade. So even if Drumstick wanted the calendar spot right now, it’s already spoken for by the site’s other long-running seasonal flavor. That’s a real structural reason it’s not back yet, not just a guess on my part.
A specific location could still have it in the freezer case from a leftover summer allocation, since participation and stock vary store to store on a franchised chain like this one. But treating it as something you can reliably walk in and order today would be setting yourself up to be told no.
What’s actually in it
The official name DQ and Nestlé use is the Drumstick Blizzard Treat with Peanuts, and it’s built to taste like the cone, not just borrow the name. Vanilla soft serve gets blended with chocolate coating pieces, crunchy waffle cone pieces, and real peanuts, the same three elements that make the actual Drumstick cone recognizable in the first place. It’s a sweet and salty combination rather than a straight dessert flavor, closer in spirit to something like Turtle Pecan Cluster than to a fruit or candy Blizzard.
It comes in the same Mini, Small, Medium, and Large sizes as every other flavor on the board. Nothing about the mix-in changes the size lineup, it’s the standard cup sizes with a different set of pieces blended in.
Price, since nobody actually published a set number
I couldn’t find an official national price specifically attached to this flavor, which is unusual but not unheard of for a Blizzard of the Month run, some months get promotional pricing called out publicly and others don’t get a separate announcement at all. What I can tell you with confidence is where it would land based on DQ’s standard structure, since specialty Blizzards with multiple mix-ins typically price at the higher end of the Medium tier rather than the base rate. A Medium here would most likely run somewhere in the $5.29 to $5.49 range, the same bracket as other multi-ingredient flavors like Turtle Pecan Cluster or Choco Brownie Extreme, rather than the flat $5.29 base rate simpler flavors like Oreo or M&M’s carry. Treat that as a reasonable estimate built from the site’s standard pricing pattern, not a confirmed number I pulled from an official source, since none exists publicly for this specific flavor.
Where it’s actually been before
This isn’t a one-time flavor that showed up once and vanished. It has a real return pattern, even if I don’t have a complete year-by-year record of every single appearance.
| Year | Version | What I confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Drumstick Blizzard Treat with Peanuts | Original debut, July 2020, the first DQ and Nestlé Drumstick collaboration |
| 2022 | Caramel Drumstick with Peanuts | A caramel variant on the original, a documented limited run |
| 2026 | Drumstick Blizzard Treat with Peanuts | Returned as June’s Blizzard of the Month, ran through June 30 |
Coverage of the 2026 return describes it as having been “revived a handful of times” as a summer flavor since 2020, which tells me there were almost certainly other years I don’t have a specific, citable source for. I’d rather show you the three appearances I can actually stand behind than pad this table with years I’m guessing at.
When it’s likely to come back
Every confirmed appearance I found lands in the same window, summer, specifically June through early July. It’s never been reported as a fall, winter, or spring flavor. If DQ runs true to its own pattern, the realistic next window is next summer, not this fall or winter. I wouldn’t bet on a surprise off-season return based on anything I’ve found, this reads as a warm-weather flavor by design, built around a cone treat that’s already associated with summer in most people’s minds.
What I’d actually take away from this
- Not currently on the standard national lineup: its run ended June 30, and Pumpkin Pie already holds the fall slot.
- Built from three real elements: chocolate coating, cone pieces, and peanuts, meant to taste like the actual Drumstick cone.
- No official price was published: the $5.29 to $5.49 Medium range is a reasonable estimate based on how DQ prices other multi-mix-in flavors, not a confirmed figure.
- It does come back: confirmed in 2020, 2022, and 2026, with likely more appearances I can’t specifically source, always in the summer window.
- Your local store might still have stock: worth a call before a special trip, but don’t count on it as a sure thing this time of year.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Dairy Queen Drumstick Blizzard available right now?
Not as a standard national offer. It ran as June 2026’s Blizzard of the Month and its run ended June 30. A specific location could still have leftover stock, but it isn’t something you can reliably count on ordering right now.
What's in the Drumstick Blizzard?
Vanilla soft serve blended with chocolate coating pieces, crunchy cone pieces, and real peanuts, the same elements that make the actual Drumstick cone recognizable. It’s officially called the Drumstick Blizzard Treat with Peanuts, a collaboration between DQ and Nestlé.
Will the Drumstick Blizzard come back?
Based on its history, most likely yes, but not until next summer. It’s been confirmed in 2020, a caramel variant in 2022, and again in June 2026, always in the same June through early July window, never as a fall, winter, or spring flavor.
Read how DQ decides what gets featured each month in my Blizzard of the Month breakdown, or see other flavors that have come and gone in my discontinued flavors roundup. For what’s actually on the board this season, check my fall Blizzard lineup, or see standard pricing across every size on the full menu page.