Taco Bell’s New Menu Items Include Baja Blast Midnight Flavor, Queso Shells, and Birthday Cake Churros

Earlier this month during its latest Live Más event, Taco Bell gave customers a look at 30 new foodstuffs it’s working on. While there was a whole lot of revelations, including new collaborations and merchandise for 2025, the most important was the announcement of options coming to Taco Bell locations everywhere. Those include new Caliente Cantina Chicken options, the return of Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos and Double Decker Taco via the Decades Menu, Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa, the return of Crispy Chicken Nuggets, Mike’s Hot Honey Diablo Sauce, a new Flamin’ Hot Burrito, Steak and Queso Crunchwrap Sliders, and Rolled Poblano Quesadilla.

Yup. All of them. Give us all of them. But the three new items coming in 2025 that really caught our eye/stomach provide an entire meal. They include:

• Milk Bar Birthday Cake Churros: “…warm and crispy churros filled with Milk Bar’s iconic birthday cake frosting and topped with festive sprinkles and sugar”
• MOUNTAIN DEW BAJA MIDNIGHT: “a sweet and refreshing blast of passionfruit flavor combined with the familiar tropical lime flavor of Baja Blast”
• Quesocrisp Taco: “an all-new taco with a shell made out of crispy cheese”

Yuuuup. That’s a whole delicious night right there.

Taco Bell also provided a look at foods that could one day join the 2025. The live experience started with the latest innovations the chain’s Test Kitchen has developed. While not all of these “dream” items will make it to customers, we’d eat literally all of them. These experimental ideas include:

• Weak Knees Fire: “combines the iconic Fire sauce with Bushwick Kitchen’s Weak Knees Gochujang Sriracha”
• Zab’s Hot Ranch: “takes the flavors that Zab’s [Hot Sauce is known for and adding Taco Bell’s Spicy Ranch sauce”
• Purple Chile Sauce: “a rich purple sauce featuring three unique chiles: Ají Panca, Habanero and Ghost Pepper”
• Crispy Fajitas: “tempura battered crispy bell pepper, onions and jalapeños paired with white habanero ranch for dipping”
• Queso Fundido Rolled Chicken Taquitos: “crispy taquitos stuffed with chicken with a green chili queso fundido for dipping”
• Short Rib Chile Relleno Burrito: “Anaheim green chile stuffed with melted cheese and short rib beef”
• Brisket Taco: “featuring slow-roasted brisket, shredded cheese and purple cabbage”
• Poutine Fries: “seasoned fries topped with slow-roasted pork, savory gravy and cheese curds”
• Ube Strawberry Cookie: “a crisp and chewy sugar cookie stuffed with rich vanilla ube cream featuring strawberry pieces in the cookie and filling plus a flurry of sprinkles”
• Mexican Pizza Empanada: “the cult classic Mexican Pizza inside of a flakey crispy empanada”
• Mini Taco Salad: “a bite-sized version of the taco salad that was on Taco Bell menus from 1984 to 2017 with added salsa verde and lime”
• Tacodilla: “an oversized taco shell made with a corn flour tortilla filled with carne asada, melted cheese, guajillo pepper sauce and grilled to perfection”
• Salted Caramel & Toffee Cream Empanada Bite: “a twist on the beloved Caramel Apple Empanada featuring salted caramel and toffee cream”

Test Kitchen? Great! We volunteer as test subject.

You can read all about merch drops, celebrity partnerships, and new menu deals at Taco Bell’s official Live Más roundup. But we’re mostly just focused on those crispy cheese taco shells. Not out of selfishness or anything. But because they could truly unite all of us.