Raising Cane's Sauce {Copycat Recipe} | Dinners, Dishes & Desserts (2025)

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Canes sauce is known for its crazy good flavor profile. Dip your chicken fingers, potato chips, and even fries.

Have you ever been to Raising Cane’s? It is a chain fast food restaurant that only serves chicken fingers. We have one in Fort Collins, and were a little skeptical at first, but it has quickly become one of our favorite places.

It is not your traditional fast food chain, that is for sure! They make everything fresh to order, and use real, quality, good pieces of chicken. They are famous for their Cane’s Sauce. It is the only dipping sauce that they offer, and it is just that good, they don’t need to offer anything else.

We absolutely love the Canes sauce, and always need a couple extra when we go. I had to find a way to make it at home, so we could have it more often. It took a few tries to figure out exactly how to make canes sauce, but it is actually super easy. Just mix a few staple ingredients together, let it sit for awhile for all the flavors to blend together, and you are good to go! For a quick weeknight meal you can serve it with homemade chicken tenders or grilled chicken skewers.

What Is Canes Sauce

Raising Cane’s Sauce is a ketchup and mayo based sauce that is spiced up with a few other spices that make it special. From what I have learned it is made slightly different at different areas of the country. In the South it is supposedly a spicier version that is made with creole seasoning. Here in Colorado it isn’t spicy, but has the kick from pepper in the background. So you can use this as a base and then add some spice if you are used to it that way.

Can You Buy Cane’s Sauce

Unfortunately no, they do not sell it by the bottle. When you are at the restaurant, you can order extra cups of the sauce, but nothing that will last or serve very many.

Serving Suggestions

Canes sauce has quickly become a staple at our house. It is good on so much more than just chicken tenders.

  • Great for topping burgers
  • Dip your fries, sweet potato fries, and tots
  • As a dip for chips or veggies
  • Use in place of mayo on sandwiches

What Does Cane’s Sauce Taste Like?

It is similar to a fry sauce but it has the black pepper, Worcestershire and garlic powder in there that give it more flavor. It is tangy with a little bit of a kick. Fry sauce is really just ketchup and mayo, so this is a little different, but very similar.

Unfortunately Raising Cane’s restaurants are not all over the place, so not everyone can experience it. But trust me, try this copycat version for Canes Sauce and you will understand what all the hype is about.

What’s In Cane’s Sauce

Just 5 simple ingredients make up the infamous dipping sauce.

  • Mayo (full fat is best, but you can use whatever you have)
  • Ketchup
  • Garlic Powder
  • Worcestershire Sauce
  • Black Pepper
  • Creole Seasoning

The creole seasoning is a little bit controversial. A lot of people say it is in there, some people say they make the sauce differently in different parts of the country, and Cane’s isn’t offering up their original recipe. So if you like it, add just a pinch to the recipe.

How to Make Cane’s Sauce

  1. In a small bowl add all of the ingredients.
  2. Whisk until it is well blended.

Seriously, that is it. You can’t get a much easier recipe. The key is really to let it sit in the fridge for a few hours to let the flavors come together. This makes all the difference between a boring sauce and the Cane’s sauce you will fall in love with.

The longer this sits in the fridge the better it gets. You need a minimum of 2 hours for the flavors to start to come together, but if you can let it sit for 24 hours, that is even better!

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Canes Sauce Recipe

Raising Cane's Sauce {Copycat Recipe} | Dinners, Dishes & Desserts (5)

Canes sauce is known for its crazy good flavor profile. Dip your chicken fingers, potato chips, and even fries.

Prep Time5 minutes

Total Time5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup Mayo
  • ¼ cup ketchup
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • Pinch Creole Seasoning (optional)

Instructions

    1. Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until well combined.
    2. Let sit in the fridge for at least 2 hours before serving.
    3. Store leftovers in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Notes

Add a pinch of Creole Seasoning for just a hint of spice.

The sauce gets better the longer it sits, so if you can make it 24 hours ahead that is even better.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1

Amount Per ServingCalories 205Total Fat 21gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 17gCholesterol 12mgSodium 318mgCarbohydrates 5gFiber 0gSugar 3gProtein 1g

Nutrition Disclaimer: All information presented on this site is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information shared on dinnersdishesanddesserts.com should only be used as a general guideline.

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FAQs

What is Raising Cane's special sauce made of? ›

Place 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 1/4 cup ketchup, 1 teaspoon freshly coarsely ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, and 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce in a medium bowl and stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate overnight. (Don't skip this step or it will not taste like Cane's.

What is the closest thing to raising canes sauce? ›

Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise.
  • 1/4 cup ketchup.
  • 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce.
  • 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt.
  • 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic.
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground fresh black pepper.
  • Hot store bought chicken fingers.
  • Hot crinkle-cut fries.
Oct 20, 2023

What is the difference between canes sauce and Chick Fil A sauce? ›

Like Raising Cane's, Chick-fil-A sauce has a thick mayo base and a tangy sharpness supplied by pepper, vinegar, and garlic. Where it diverges is the addition of sweetness from honey mustard and ketchup-based barbecue sauce.

What oil does Cane's cook their chicken in? ›

Raising Cane's cooks all of our fried foods in an all-vegetable, trans fat free blend of soybean and canola oil. According to the FDA, highly refined soybean oil is not considered allergenic, and therefore is not labeled as such. Please inform the Manager if you have a food allergy.

Is Cane's sauce honey mustard? ›

Our made-fresh daily Cane's Sauce® is our signature sauce. However, we also make fresh honey mustard in our restaurants. Hot sauce is also available upon request.

What makes Raising Cane's unique? ›

At Raising Cane's® you get an exceptionally high quality product served quickly and conveniently. We can do this because we offer a limited menu. The specialized systems developed by Raising Cane's® allow us to maintain a level of quality unmatched in the industry.

What sauce at Walmart tastes like canes sauce? ›

These three sauces tastes SO similar to large fast food chain sauces! Now that these have gone viral and have been out for some time— have you tried any of these?! What did you think? NEW Chicken Finger Sauce ➡️ Raising Cane's Dupe Secret Sauve ➡️ McDonald's Big Mac Sauce Dupe Chicken Dippy Sauce ➡️ Chick fil A Dupe.

Who is Raising Cane's biggest competitor? ›

Raising Cane's main competitors are The Habit Burger Grill, Zax LLC, and Chipotle Mexican Grill. Competitor Summary. See how Raising Cane's compares to its main competitors: Taco Bell has the most employees (175,000).

What cut of chicken does Raising Canes use? ›

The chicken fingers taste great, and for the big chain fast-food world, the quality is high. The restaurant uses only chicken breast tenderloins, the strip of meat on the underside of a chicken breast that is considered a premium cut in the poultry business, and these are never frozen.

Who owns Raising Cane's? ›

Todd Graves - Founder, CEO, Fry Cook and Cashier

Only 24 years old when he began his journey, Todd and his Crew have grown Raising Cane's from a single campus Restaurant to one of the fastest-growing large restaurant brands in the U.S.

Does Zax sauce and Cane's sauce taste the same? ›

So unfortunately, they don't taste identical. The Walmart version has more of a vinegary flavor. It's very vinegary. So I would still stick with the cane sauce.

What is healthier, Chick-fil-A or canes? ›

If you're in a fast-food chicken type of mood, but also would like to stick to a healthier choice, go for Chick-Fil-A because their food is much more nutritiously clean. Get yourself some Raising Canes Chicken if you want something extraordinarily delicious, and make sure to try the sauce when they give it to you!

Do canes brine their chicken? ›

The restaurant's slogan is “One Love,” and that love is chicken fingers. That's all it sells: pieces of tenderloin marinated for 24 hours in a brine, then hand-battered in a light egg wash and flour-based batter and cooked to order.

Does Raising Cane's use frozen chicken? ›

A Raising Cane's Box Combo includes one signature Cane's sauce. No, Raising Cane's does not use frozen chicken. Yes - Raising Cane's is a franchise. At Raising Cane's, we only serve the highest quality Chicken Finger Meals.

Is raising cane's healthy? ›

While a box combo contains 61 grams of protein, the food is rich in sodium, cholesterol and fats, having 2130 mg of sodium, 170 mg in cholesterol and 68 grams in total fats. Meaning, in one meal you are getting 105% of your total fat intake, 57% for cholesterol and roughly 90% of daily sodium intake.

Is Cane's sauce made with anchovies? ›

Raising Cane's Sauce is not vegan because it contains animal products, such as eggs and fish. The sauce is known to contain mayonnaise, which is made with eggs, Worcestershire sauce, which is made with anchovies, ketchup, garlic powder, and black pepper.

Is extra canes sauce extra? ›

At Raising Cane's, our chicken is hand marinated and premium quality. Yes, extra sauce at Raising Cane's is chargeable. The Raising Cane's Texas toast is 150 calories.

What is Worcestershire sauce made of? ›

Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce in a dish
Alternative namesWorcester sauce
Created byJohn Wheeley Lea William Henry Perrins
Main ingredientsMalt vinegar spirit vinegar anchovies tamarind garlic onions molasses sugar salt spices flavourings
Cookbook: Worcestershire sauce Media: Worcestershire sauce
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Is KFC sauce similar to Cane's sauce? ›

KFC KFC Sauce

Finger Lickin' Good Sauce tasted similar to the dipping sauces you get at the chicken finger chains like Zaxby's and Raising Cane's. But this new sauce is different. This time KFC seems to have been inspired by the sweet-and-smokey creamy mustard sauce at Chick-fil-A.

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