Burger King Double Cheeseburger Copycat Recipe

This Burger King Double Cheeseburger copycat recipe makes 2 burgers in about 15 minutes once the grill is hot. Each one gets two thin 2 oz (57 g) patties of 80/20 ground beef, grilled over open flame at 450–500 °F (230–260 °C) until they reach 160 °F (71 °C) inside, then melted American cheese, crinkle-cut pickles, yellow mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. It’s a homemade reproduction, not Burger King’s recipe. The chain doesn’t publish its patty weight, seasoning or broiler settings, so those numbers are mine, and I show where each one comes from. My view after cooking it: of all the Burger King copycats, this thin double is the one that tastes most like the chain on a backyard grill, more than a homemade Whopper, because almost every bite is char.

What’s in a Burger King Double Cheeseburger?

A Burger King Double Cheeseburger is two flame-grilled beef patties, melted cheese, pickles, yellow mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. No onion, no lettuce, no tomato, no mayo. The build shifts a little from one country to the next, so here is each official description with its market and the date I checked it.

• United States: pickles, cheese, mustard and ketchup on a sesame bun, with two patties that add up to a quarter pound, according to Tasting Table (September 19, 2026). I couldn’t find an official US source that says whether you get 1 or 2 slices of cheese.
• Lithuania: ‘Two signature flame-grilled beef patties topped with melted cheese, crinkle cut pickles, yellow mustard, and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun’ (burgerking.lt, checked November 4, 2026). It doesn’t give a slice count.
• Switzerland: ‘two flame-grilled beef patties and double cheddar’ in a toasted bun, at 176 g (burger-king.ch, checked November 4, 2026).

Lithuania’s English description is the most complete official build I found, so that’s the one I copied. If you’d rather start with one patty, my Burger King cheeseburger copycat recipe uses the same patty, heat and timings. This one doubles everything.

How much do the Double Cheeseburger patties weigh?

Burger King doesn’t publish the weight of its Double Cheeseburger patties in any market. Tasting Table (2026) and Meatingplace (2009) both put the two patties together at a quarter pound, so about 2 oz (57 g) each. Stacked, they weigh the same as a single Whopper patty.

The top-ranking copycats disagree. CopyKat calls for 3 oz patties, and Cup of Yum shapes 1½ lb of beef into 8 patties, which also lands at about 3 oz (85 g) each. The press reports a quarter pound in total, every time, so I side with the press: 2 oz (57 g) per patty, the same as in my single cheeseburger. Treat that as my best estimate, not an official spec. I did cook one round with 3 oz patties. It made a good, juicier burger, but it tasted like a backyard cookout, not like Burger King: the thin, charred bite was gone.

Burger King Double Cheeseburger patty weight compared: about 2 oz (57 g) per patty based on the quarter-pound total reported by Tasting Table and Meatingplace, against 3 oz (85 g) in the CopyKat and Cup of Yum copycats and 4 oz (113 g) for a Double Whopper patty. Burger King publishes no official weight. (Chart: Burger Breton, CC BY 4.0, data from Tasting Table (Sept. 19, 2026), Meatingplace (2009), CopyKat and Cup of Yum; rendered with QuickChart)

Burger King Double Cheeseburger copycat ingredients (2 burgers)

For 2 burgers you need 8 oz (227 g) of 80/20 ground chuck, shaped into 4 patties, plus 2 sesame seed buns, 4 slices of American cheese, crinkle-cut dill pickles, yellow mustard and ketchup. The components come from Burger King’s descriptions. The quantities are mine.

• 8 oz (227 g) ground chuck, 80/20, cold
• ⅓ teaspoon fine salt
• ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
• 2 sesame seed buns
• 2 teaspoons (10 g) softened butter, for toasting
• 4 slices American cheese (1 per patty)
• 6 crinkle-cut dill pickle chips (3 per burger)
• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard (½ per burger)
• 2 teaspoons ketchup (1 per burger)

The salt and pepper follow Cup of Yum’s ratio (1 teaspoon of salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper for 1½ lb of beef), scaled down to 8 oz. I round the pepper down from ⅙ to ⅛ teaspoon, because pepper is not something you taste in the original. Burger King doesn’t say how it seasons its patties. Cup of Yum and CopyKat both use ground chuck, a buttered sesame bun, American cheese, crinkle-cut dill pickles, ketchup and yellow mustard, and so do I. Baking your own buns? My homemade burger buns recipe works with sesame seeds on top.

Prep time: 10 minutes · Cook time: about 5 minutes · Total: 15 minutes (plus preheating the grill) · Yield: 2 double cheeseburgers

Step by step: how to make a double cheeseburger at home

Shape 4 thin 2 oz patties and grill them over direct high flame to 160 °F (71 °C) inside. Melt a slice of cheese on each, stack two per bun with the toppings, then wrap for 1 minute. Weigh the beef: four equal patties finish at the same time.

1. Shape the patties

Divide the cold beef into four 2 oz (57 g) portions on a kitchen scale. Eyeballing doesn’t work here: when I tried it, the smallest patty was done well before the others. Press each portion into a thin, flat disc a little wider than the bun, since it shrinks on the grill, and keep the patties in the fridge until the grill is hot.

2. Heat the grill to 450–500 °F (230–260 °C)

Set up a charcoal or gas grill for direct high heat, between 450 and 500 °F (230 and 260 °C), then clean and oil the grates. Small flare-ups when the fat drips are fine: that’s where the smoky edge comes from. Below 450 °F, thin patties turn gray before they brown.

3. Toast the buns

Butter the cut sides of the buns and toast them at the edge of the grill for about 30 seconds, until golden. Then wrap them in foil so they stay warm while the patties cook.

4. Grill the patties

Season both sides of each patty with the salt and pepper just before they go on. Grill directly over the flame for 1½ to 2 minutes per side, flipping once, until an instant-read thermometer reads 160 °F (71 °C) in the center. Don’t press them. You squeeze out the juice and feed the flames.

Seasoned beef burger patties searing over direct heat on a gas grill, next to grilled green vegetables. This is the kind of high, direct heat (450–500 °F) the flame-grilled double cheeseburger copycat needs. Illustrative photo, not the patties from this recipe. (Photo: Cord Allman, Unsplash License, https://unsplash.com/photos/burgers-and-grilled-vegetables-cooking-on-a-barbecue-grill-iPfADnFYBU8)

5. Melt the cheese on every patty

For the last 30 to 60 seconds, lay 1 slice of American cheese on each patty and close the lid. You want the slice to soften and drape over the edges, not run off onto the grates. Cheese on both patties is what glues the stack together. Skip it on the bottom one and the top patty slides out on the first bite.

6. Stack and wrap

Put one cheese-topped patty on the bottom bun and the second on top of it. Add 3 pickle chips, ½ teaspoon of yellow mustard and 1 teaspoon of ketchup, and close the bun. Wrap each burger in parchment or foil for 1 minute. Don’t skip this: the steam softens the bun the way the paper wrapper does between the broiler and the counter.

Flame-grilled taste at home, with or without a grill

You can’t buy Burger King’s flame-grilled taste in a bottle. It comes from cooking a thin patty right over an open flame, so a charcoal or gas grill at 450–500 °F is the closest you’ll get at home. In the restaurant, a conveyor broiler carries the patties over gas flames in a cycle of about 2 to 4 minutes, according to Tasting Table and Food Republic.

Burger King doesn’t publish its broiler temperatures or timings, so my numbers are for a home grill. I explain how the broiler works in my guide to Whopper ingredients and the Whopper copycat. No grill?

• Cast-iron skillet or grill pan: heat it until it’s very hot. You get a dark sear but not the smoky char of an open flame, so the result tastes more like a diner burger.
• Oven broiler: set the patties on a rack close to the element and stay at the oven, because 2 oz patties cook fast. Check that they reach 160 °F (71 °C).

For fat ratios, doneness and why I cook ground beef to 160 °F, see my burger patty internal temperature guide.

Official vs. homemade: the comparison table

My copycat keeps every component Burger King lists and adds only the numbers the chain doesn’t publish. Here is what each market says next to my version.

Sources: Tasting Table (September 19, 2026), burgerking.lt and burger-king.ch (checked November 4, 2026).

Burger King Double Cheeseburger, official vs. homemade: bun, patties, cheese, pickles, sauces and seasoning as listed by Burger King in the US, Lithuania and Switzerland, side by side with the copycat recipe (2 × 2 oz patties, 2 slices of American cheese, 3 pickle chips, ½ tsp mustard, 1 tsp ketchup). (Table: Burger Breton, CC BY 4.0, data from burgerking.lt and burger-king.ch (checked Nov. 4, 2026) and Tasting Table (Sept. 19, 2026))

Burger King Double Cheeseburger calories by country

A Burger King Double Cheeseburger has 447.1 kcal in Lithuania (163.2 g) and 498.2 kcal in Switzerland (176 g), according to the chain’s own menu pages for those countries. I couldn’t access the official US numbers on bk.com. Third-party databases (FatSecret, CalorieKing) list 390 to 400 calories, but those aren’t Burger King figures.

Official figures checked November 4, 2026.

Burger King Double Cheeseburger calories by country: 447.1 kcal in Lithuania (163.2 g) and 498.2 kcal in Switzerland (176 g), with France’s Double Cheese Bacon (482 kcal) shown separately because France no longer sells the plain Double Cheeseburger. The US is left out because no official figure was available. (Chart: Burger Breton, CC BY 4.0, data from burgerking.lt, burger-king.ch and burgerking.fr (checked Nov. 4, 2026); rendered with QuickChart)

Burger King Double Cheeseburger nutrition, Lithuania vs. Switzerland, per burger: fat 22.9 g vs. 27.1 g, carbohydrates 31.5 g vs. 31.1 g, protein 26.7 g vs. 31.4 g, salt 3.4 g vs. 1.1 g, from the chain’s official menu pages. (Chart: Burger Breton, CC BY 4.0, data from burgerking.lt and burger-king.ch (checked Nov. 4, 2026); rendered with QuickChart)

The Swiss burger is 13 g heavier and carries about 51 kcal more, which fits its ‘double cheddar’ build. I haven’t calculated nutrition for my homemade version. Cup of Yum puts its own at 741 kcal per serving, but with 3 oz patties, so it isn’t a fair comparison. In Switzerland the listed allergens are milk, wheat, mustard, sesame, celery and gluten. Builds vary by market, so check your own country’s allergen page.

Where to buy the Double Cheeseburger: US yes, France no

In the US, the Double Cheeseburger is on Burger King’s regular menu. Tasting Table saw it at about $3.50 in some restaurants in September 2026, and prices vary by location. That buys a quarter pound of flame-grilled beef, the same as a Whopper, and in my book it’s the better order: I take it over a Whopper whenever I want char more than lettuce and tomato.

In France it’s a different story. On November 4, 2026, Burger King France’s burger menu had no plain Double Cheeseburger. The only double-patty cheese burgers listed were the Double Cheese Bacon and the Double Cheese Bacon XXL, and the old product URL returned a 404 error. The French Double Cheese Bacon is the nearest equivalent: two flame-grilled patties, 2 slices of melted cheddar and 2 slices of smoked bacon, with mustard, ketchup and pickles on a sesame bun, for 482 kcal (burgerking.fr). For my other Burger King double-patty copycat with bacon, try the Bacon King copycat recipe.

Why this recipe tastes like the original

This copycat tastes like a Burger King Double Cheeseburger because it keeps the four things that define it: thin patties that are mostly charred surface, cheese melted on each patty, the mustard, ketchup and pickle combination, and a steamed, soft bun.

• Two thin patties, not one thick one. Two 2 oz patties give you about twice the flame-grilled crust of a single quarter-pound patty with the same amount of beef. That’s what separates the Double Cheeseburger from a Whopper.
• Open flame. The smoky flavor comes from fat dripping onto the fire, which is what the conveyor broiler does too.
• Yellow mustard and ketchup. Sharp mustard against sweet ketchup, plus pickles for acid and crunch, is the flavor of the US build. Leave out the mustard and the burger tastes flat and sweet.
• One minute in the wrapper. The steam softens the bun, like the one that comes across the counter.

A short history of the Burger King Double Cheeseburger

Burger King added the Double Cheeseburger to its menu in 1976 and the Bacon Double Cheeseburger in 1982. The chain had sold cheeseburgers since it opened in 1953 (Wikipedia).

On October 19, 2009, after testing it for 18 months, Burger King launched a $1 quarter-pound Double Cheeseburger in all its US restaurants. It had two flame-grilled patties, cheese, pickles and condiments on a sesame bun (Meatingplace). The burger’s quarter-pound weight goes back to that launch, which is why I use 2 oz per patty. For what’s new on the menu this year, see our story on the new Burger King Whopper in 2026. The chain’s history and figures are on our Burger King brand page.

Burger King Double Cheeseburger FAQ

What’s in a Burger King Double Cheeseburger? Two flame-grilled beef patties, melted cheese, pickles, yellow mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. That’s the build Burger King lists in Lithuania, and it matches the US build Tasting Table reports. There’s no onion, lettuce or mayo.

How much do the patties weigh? Burger King doesn’t publish the weight. Tasting Table and Meatingplace say a quarter pound for both patties together, or about 2 oz (57 g) each. Some copycat recipes use 3 oz, but that doesn’t match the press reports.

Is the Double Cheeseburger still sold at Burger King in France? No. On November 4, 2026, Burger King France’s menu listed only the Double Cheese Bacon and the Double Cheese Bacon XXL as double cheese burgers. In the US it’s on the regular menu.

How many calories are in a Burger King Double Cheeseburger? 447.1 kcal in Lithuania and 498.2 kcal in Switzerland, according to Burger King’s official pages for those countries. Third-party databases list 390 to 400 calories for the US version, but those figures aren’t official.

What’s the difference between the Double Cheeseburger, the Double Cheese Bacon and the Double Whopper with Cheese? The Double Cheeseburger has two thin patties that weigh a quarter pound together. The French Double Cheese Bacon adds 2 slices of smoked bacon. The Double Whopper with Cheese uses two Whopper patties of 4 oz (113 g) each, twice the beef. You’ll find it in my Double Whopper with Cheese copycat recipe.

Cheddar or American cheese? American cheese for the US taste. Switzerland lists cheddar, so a processed cheddar slice works if you want that version. Aged block cheddar turns oily on a patty this thin.

How many slices of cheese are in a Burger King Double Cheeseburger? It depends on the market. Switzerland lists ‘double cheddar’, Lithuania just says ‘melted cheese’, and I found no official US source that confirms the count. My copycat uses 2 slices, one on each patty, like Cup of Yum.

Can I make it without a grill? Yes. A very hot cast-iron skillet gives a good sear, and an oven broiler gives you heat from above. Neither gives the smoky char of an open flame. Cook the patties to 160 °F (71 °C) in the center either way.

More double-patty burger copycats

McDonald’s answer to this burger is the McDouble. Make my McDouble copycat recipe the same night and you’ll taste the difference between a griddle sear and an open flame in one sitting. All my tested burger recipes are on the Burger Breton burger recipes hub.