Choc Birthday Cake at McDonald's. 300 calories, $12.99.
At 300 calories it is heavier than 52% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 23 calories per dollar it is 177th of 184 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| McCrispy™ Filet | 290 | −10 |
| Egg & Cheese McMuffin® | 290 | −10 |
| Filet O Fish Hm | 290 | −10 |
| Cafe Leche | 280 | −20 |
| Vernors | 280 | −20 |
Priced at 2671 McDonald's restaurants in 46 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $7.99 and $19.99, a spread of 150%.
It is on the menu at 2671 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
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The cheapest Choc Birthday Cake in the sample is $4.99 in Wichita, KS, and the most expensive is $69.99 in Dallas, TX. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 45 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 37 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | $8.99 | 99 | cheapest |
| TX | $10.00 | 316 | cheapest |
| OR | $10.00 | 44 | cheapest |
| NJ | $10.00 | 27 | cheapest |
| RI | $19.99 | 6 | most expensive |
| NH | $16.49 | 20 | most expensive |
| WV | $15.29 | 33 | most expensive |
| NM | $15.00 | 27 | most expensive |
22 of the 2,681 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was -7.9%. A typical one now charges $12.99.
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Choc Birthday Cake’s $12.99. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $14.19 | 42% | 11,086 |
| 40 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $14.29 | 42% | 11,838 |
| Double Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.49 | 29% | 11,673 |
| Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.39 | 39% | 31 |
| 20 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $8.19 | 45% | 12,235 |
Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.