14 Disney theme-park desserts you can make at home
Amanda Krause
- Disney theme parks sell a wide variety of desserts, from decadent waffles to gooey Rice Krispie Treats.
- Luckily for fans, many of these classic treats can be re-created at home.
- In recent months, Disney has released recipes for its famous churros, beignets, milkshakes, and more.
- Travel blogs have also created recipes for dishes like Mickey-shaped waffles and cake pops.
It's no secret that Disney theme parks sell some delicious desserts.
For example, there's cinnamon-covered churros, sweet Dole Whip, and powdered beignets shaped like Mickey Mouse. While those three treats are typically only found at places like Disney World and Disneyland, the company has released numerous recipes in recent weeks to help fans re-create those dishes and more.
Here are 14 Disney-inspired desserts you can make at home.
You'll only need eight ingredients to replicate Disney's famous churros at home.
The Disney Parks Blog shared step-by-step instructions, as well as a video tutorial, in April to help fans make the theme-park-inspired snacks.
The recipe calls for water, butter, salt, and cinnamon, as well as flour, eggs, sugar, and vegetable oil. As far as tools go, you'll need a saucepan, piping bag, slotted spoon, and a stove top.
Disney's beloved Dole Whip is just as simple to make.
Dole Whip is a dairy-free, soft-serve treat made from pineapple and vanilla flavors. It can be found at Disneyland and Disney World, and is often served in various formats and flavors.
Previously released on the My Disney Experience app, this recipe calls for vanilla ice cream, pineapple juice, and frozen pineapple. You'll also need a blender and star-tipped piping bag. Complete instructions can be found here.
Both adults and children love Mickey-shaped beignets.
Found at Disney World and Disneyland, Mickey-shaped beignets are a popular treat that combines fried dough with powdered sugar. Back in April, the Disney Parks Blog released its four-step recipe that allows you to enjoy the treat from home.
To make them, you'll need warm water, dry yeast, powdered sugar, and vegetable shortening, as well as salt, heavy cream, flour, and an egg.
For an unconventional dessert, consider peanut butter and jelly milkshakes.
These unique drinks are served exclusively at the '50s Prime Time Café in Disney World's Hollywood Studios. To make them at home, you'll only need four ingredients: jelly, peanut butter, milk, and vanilla ice cream.
You can find the recipe on the Disney Parks Blog here, or watch a video tutorial on YouTube.
For those who follow a plant-based diet, consider making Disney's cookie fries.
The fries are typically served at the Beaches & Cream Soda Shop in Disney World's Beach Club Resort. They features ingredients like margarine, molasses, and dairy-free chocolate chips, and are made with an electric mixer, two baking sheets, and more.
The Disney Parks Blog has complete instructions to make the fries here.
If you prefer more traditional cookies, try making this chocolate-chip recipe from Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
Back in 2017, Disney released this recipe in honor of National Chocolate-Chip Cookie Day. It calls for standard dessert ingredients — like flour, baking soda, vanilla extract, and salt — and requires tools like an electric mixer.
The Grey Stuff from "Beauty and the Beast" is a fan favorite.
Those familiar with the 1991 animated film will likely remember this dessert being mentioned in the song "Be Our Guest": "Try the grey stuff, it's delicious/Don't believe me? Ask the dishes."
Decades later, the dish is sold at Disney World's Be Our Guest restaurant, and Disneyland's Red Rose Tavern. You can also make it at home with Disney's recipe, which calls for milk, vanilla-pudding mix, chocolate-pudding mix, cookies-and-cream sandwiches, scalloped cookies, and a whipped topping.
Disney's Kitchen Sink Sundae can serve an entire family.
This giant dessert is typically served at Disney World's Beaches & Cream Soda Shop for $35. The price and size are reflective of the dish's 28 ingredients, which include five flavors of ice cream, quartered cupcakes, various fruits, a candy bar, an entire can of whipped cream, and more.
A recipe and video tutorial to help you make the dessert can be found on the Disney Parks Blog here.
Mickey-shaped candy apples are just as fun to make as they are to eat.
Disney released a step-by-step tutorial that helps fans make Mickey Apples at home back in 2016. The video is free to watch on YouTube, and can be found here.
Though the desserts look complex, they're actually pretty simple to make. All you'll need to do is dip an apple in caramel, make Mickey's ears using marshmallows, and then dip the entire dessert into melted chocolate. From there, you can decorate it however you'd like.
Disney-themed dome cakes can be complex to make, but taste delicious.
Throughout its theme parks, Disney sells dome cakes inspired by various characters, films, and events. In 2016, however, the company shared a video recipe for its classic Mickey Mouse design on YouTube.
While it should be noted that this recipe isn't necessarily for beginners, it can be completed at home with the right ingredients and tools — which include mousse, cake, chocolate pearls, buttercream, glaçage, and more.
Cake pops have recently become a staple of Disney theme parks.
To make the treats at home, you'll need: cake mix, frosting, marshmallows, parchment paper, cake-pop sticks, and more. Play Party Plan, a family-friendly lifestyle blog, created a recipe that can be found here.
You can also make the baking process easier by purchasing a Mickey-themed cake-pop maker from retailers like Walmart.
Making Mickey-shaped ice cream at home is easier than you might think.
Disney recently started selling its famous Mickey bars — vanilla ice cream coated with a chocolate shell — in stores like Walmart and Target. But if you prefer to make dessert yourself, you can follow this recipe from Disney blog The Mommy Mouse Clubhouse.
It calls for vanilla ice cream, chocolate chips, coconut oil, a large knife, parchment paper, popsicle sticks, and a Mickey-shaped cookie cutter.
Mickey-shaped waffles, on the other hand, require a special cooking tool.
Picky Palette, a blog dedicated to family-friendly recipes, created a recipe for Mickey-shaped waffles that requires melted butter, milk, flour, vanilla extract, and more. However, you'll also need a Mickey-shaped waffle maker, which can be purchased on the Shop Disney website, or through Target.
Mickey-shaped Rice Krispies Treats are extremely easy to make at home.
If you've ever created homemade Rice Krispies Treats, you'll need to follow the same recipe found on the back of the Kellogg's cereal box.
The only difference here is that you'll cut the mix into Mickey Mouse shapes instead of squares, and then dip them into a melted chocolate of your choosing. Sarah's Bake Studio, a dessert blog, shared an in-depth recipe here.
- Read more:
- 22 Disney theme-park dishes you can make at home
- 11 recipes to re-create iconic dishes from Disney movies at home
- I made Disney's famous Rice Krispie recipe after my vacation was canceled, and it was almost as good as being at the theme park
- Disney has shared how to make its famous Mickey Mouse-shaped beignets, and the recipe only has 4 steps
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