Halloween Treats Are Coming To Disneyland

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Halloween is my favorite time of year in the Disney Parks. The treats are always spooky and fun and there are a lot to look forward to in Disneyland this fall. These eerie eats are available from September 2 until November 10 unless otherwise noted. 

Disneyland Park

Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe

• Pumpkin Cheesecake: Classic pumpkin cheesecake decorated with a chocolate spider web and spiced Chantilly 🍩
• Mickey Bat Cookie: Citrus shortbread bat cookie dipped in dark chocolate with a vampire Mickey face (also available at Market House and Red Rose Taverne)

French Market Restaurant

• Halloween Cake: Purple-colored vanilla sponge, raspberry mousse, fresh raspberries, and candied cocoa nibs 🍩

Alien Pizza Planet

• Vampire Alien Macaron filled with blackberry buttercream and lemon curd

Galactic Grill

• Oktoberfest-inspired Burger: Angus beef patty, bratwurst, grilled peppers and onions, sauerkraut, and house-made mustard cheese on a pretzel bun 🍩
• Darth by Chocolate: Layers of chocolate pudding, red velvet sponge, chocolate mousse, and crushed chocolate creme-filled cookies
• Blood Orange Slush with a swirl of raspberry sauce

Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor

• Rocky Road Halloween Sundae: Rocky road waffle bowl, rocky road ice cream, marshmallow cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream topped with sprinkles 🍩

Mint Julep Bar

• Pumpkin-spiced Mickey-shaped Beignets rolled in pumpkin-spiced sugar

Plaza Inn

• Monster Halloween Cake: Devil’s Food cake, colorful white chocolate mousse and buttercream
• Classic Pumpkin Pie: Classic pumpkin pie with spiced Chantilly (Available through November 30)

Red Rose Taverne

• Grave Stuff: Traditional grey stuff topped with chocolate tombstone and Halloween sprinkles 🍩🎃
• Pumpkin Cold Brew: Cold brew flavored with pumpkin, vanilla, and spices topped with whipped cream 🍩

Refreshment Corner

• Spicy Firefly Chips: Spicy corn chips topped with chili, cheese, and jalapeños 🍩

Stage Door Café

• Pumpkin Spice Funnel Cake: Pumpkin spice-dusted funnel cake with spiced caramel drizzle, toffee bits, whipped cream, and chocolate curls

Fantasyland Churro Cart

• Pumpkin Pie Dip 🍩

Frontierland Churro Cart

• Spicy Chocolate Churro: Cinnamon-dusted chocolate churro with a spicy cocoa dipping sauce

New Orleans Square Churro Cart

• Pistachio-Cherry Churro: Cinnamon churro rolled in pistachio and sour cherry sugars and served with a side of ghost pepper grape sauce 🍩

Tomorrowland Churro Cart

• Pumpkin Spice Churro rolled in pumpkin spice flavored sugar 🍩

Tomorrowland Pretzel Cart

• Toffee Pretzel: Cream cheese-filled pretzel sprinkled with toffee sugar

Town Square and Sleeping Beauty Castle Churro Carts

• Chocolate Cookie Crumble Churro with creamy peanut butter-vanilla dipping sauce 🎃

Disney California Adventure Park

Award Wieners

• Footlong Spicy Pulled Pork Dog: Sweet & spicy pulled pork with a fiery tropical chutney served on a toasted bun 🍩 🎃
• Oogie Boogie Funnel Cake Fries dusted with crushed chocolate creme-filled cookies and topped with whipped cream, cookie pieces, gummy candies, and chocolate candies 🎃

Cocina Cucamonga Mexican Grill

• Hibiscus Sangria: Red sangria, cinnamon-spiced hibiscus agua fresca, and fresh fruit with a candied hibiscus rim

Cozy Cone

• Spicy Mac & Cheese Cone: Pasta with spicy red pepper cheese sauce topped with chili-cheese puffs 🎃
• Fruity Sugar Churro: Churro tossed in fruity cereal sugar, topped with a purple and green glaze 🎃

Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream

• Cereal Sundae: Vanilla and strawberry ice cream, berry compote, mixed cereal, and whipped cream served in a waffle cup and topped with fruity cereal 🍩
• Chocolate Brownie Sundae: Fudge brownie, rocky road ice cream, hot fudge, and a hard chocolate shell served in a chocolate-dipped waffle cup and topped with white chocolate chips 🍩
• Hard Apple Float: Hard apple cider and apple sorbet drizzled with caramel sauce 🍩
• Pumpkin Pie Hard Float: Hard pumpkin chai cider, vanilla ice cream, and a spiced pie crust cookie 🍩

Fairfax Fruit Market

• Blood Orange Lemonade: Blood orange agua fresca with lemonade 🍩

Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café

• Oogie Boogie Worms and Dirt Cake: Chocolate cake filled with raspberry jam topped with mocha mousse, chocolate cookie, candy worms, and chocolate décor

Flo’s V8 Cafe

• Spicy Chicken and Fries: Steak fries drizzled with ranch dressing topped with chicken tenders tossed in mango-habanero sauce and finished with green onions 🎃

Jack-Jack Cookie Num Nums

• Jack-Jack Shortbread Cookie: Shortbread cookie dipped in chocolate with a Jack-Jack chocolate piece 🍩 🎃

Lamplight Lounge – Boardwalk Dining

• Ghost Pepper Nachos: Charred ghost pepper-marinated chicken, smoky ghost pepper cheese sauce, black bean purée, avocado tomatillo salsa, and seasoned tomatoes 🍩 🎃
• Chile-Ginger Pork Belly Sliders: Chili-ginger-glazed crispy pork belly and Asian slaw on baguette buns 🍩 🎃
• Cucumber-Tamarind Cocktail: Patron Silver Tequila, cucumber simple syrup, tamarind simple syrup, and fresh lime juice garnished with a marigold 🍩

Lamplight Lounge

• Pumpkin-spiced Donuts: Warm fluffy donuts tossed in pumpkin-spiced sugar served with orange cream cheese dip and hot buttered rum sauce 🍩
• One Last Toast: Patron Silver Tequila, cucumber simple syrup, tamarind simple syrup, and fresh lime juice garnished with a marigold 🍩

Mortimer’s Market

• Vampire Mickey-shaped Sourdough

Pacific Wharf Café

• Pastrami Sandwich: Ghost pepper cheese sauce and house-made sauerkraut on a toasted French roll 🍩
• Chocolate-Espresso Bread Pudding with crème anglaise, whipped topping, gummy eyeball, and toasted pecans 🍩

Pacific Wharf Cappuccino Cart

• Pumpkin Bundt Cake: Pumpkin-flavored cake filled with dulce de leche and cream cheese frosting finished with chocolate stem and mousse leaf 🍩
• Pumpkin-spiced Horchata Cold Brew: Creamy blend of cold brew, pumpkin-spiced rice, and cinnamon beverage 🍩
• Pumpkin-spiced Horchata Cold Brew with Irish whiskey 🍩

Pym Tasting Lab

• Snack Molecules: Flavored popcorn, mini pretzels, honey-roasted peanuts, and popped sorghum with mini peanut butter candies 🍩

Pym Test Kitchen

• Butter Pecan Cold Brew: Butter pecan-flavored cold brew topped with candied pecans 🍩

Schmoozies!

• Minnie Witch Shake: Mint-chocolate chip shake with whipped topping and chocolate creme-filled cookie ears 🎃
• Blood Orange Shake with whipped topping and strawberry sauce 🍩 🎃

Smokejumpers Grill

• Green Chile Double Burger: Two angus beef patties, roasted green chile salsa, and purple cabbage slaw served with poblano cheese dipping sauce 🍩 🎃
• Mint Shake topped with whipped cream, chocolate cookie crumbles, gummy body parts, and a chocolate-covered snack cake 🍩
• Cranberry-grape Punch: Cranberry and grape juices, ginger ale, blackberry syrup, blackberry purée, and orange flavor-filled boba 🍩
• Cranberry-grape Cocktail: Black vodka, cranberry and grape juices, ginger ale, blackberry syrup, blackberry purée, and orange flavor-filled boba 🍩

Studio Catering Co.

• Ghost Pepper Potato Bites with ghost pepper cheese sauce, smoky bacon, and pickled jalapeños

Buena Vista Churro Cart

• Pumpkin Spice Churro rolled in pumpkin spice flavored sugar 🍩

Grizzly Peak Churro Cart

• Peanut Candy Churro rolled in peanut powder, sugar, and crushed peanuts drizzled with peanut butter sauce 🍩

Hollywood Churro Cart

• Sour Candy Churro: Sour sugar-dusted churro topped with sweet watermelon icing 🍩

Disneyland Hotel - Coffee House

• Halloween Seasonal Cupcake: Choice of vanilla or chocolate cupcake

Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa

GCH Craftsman Grill

• Halloween Pumpkin Donut: Cake donut dipped in orange-colored white chocolate
• Mickey Mummy Donut: Black and white decorated cake donut
• Jack Skellington Cupcake 🍩

GCH Holiday Cart

• Poison Apple Cookie: Vanilla sugar cookie with white chocolate 🎃
• Mickey Jack Skellington Cookie: Vanilla sugar cookie with white chocolate 🎃
• Oogie Boogie Cookie: Caramel apple cookie filled with caramel 🍩 🎃
• Hocus Pocus Cookie: Vanilla sugar cookie dipped in white chocolate 🍩 🎃
• Gingerbread Zombie Cookie: Gingerbread cookie with white chocolate 🍩 🎃
• Halloween Cookie Box: Pumpkin Mickey sugar cookies, raspberry filled cookies, and chocolate chip cookies with chocolate candies 🍩 🎃
• Sanderson Sisters Crisped Rice Treat: Crisped cereal treat dipped in white chocolate 🍩 🎃
• Spooky Pretzel Sticks: Pretzel rods dipped in white chocolate 🍩 🎃
• Oogie Boogie Crisped Rice Treat: Crisped cereal treat dipped in white chocolate 🍩 🎃

Downtown Disney District

Ballast Point Brewing Co. (Available starting October 1)

• Pumpkin Down Float: Scottish ale with hints of caramel, toffee, and a boatload of roasted pumpkin topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, pumpkin spice whipped cream, ginger snap crumbs, and a dulce de leche caramel sauce

California Churro (Available October 24 through 31)

• Spooky Churro: A delicious churro rolled in cinnamon sugar, drizzled with peanut butter and chocolate sauce, and topped with peanut butter candy pieces

Kayla’s Cake (Available September 2 through 31)

• Mummy Macarons with cookie and cream buttercream
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Macaroons with white chocolate pumpkin ganache

Sprinkles (Available October 17 through 31)

• Peanut Butter Cup: Chocolate cake filled and topped with peanut butter frosting ladled with chocolate ganache and finished off with mounds of mini peanut butter cups

La Brea Bakery Café  

• Kids Monster Pancakes: One orange and one green monster faced pancake with gummy worms and candy corn 🍩 (Available October 31 only)
• The Midnight Painkiller Hard Kombucha: A tiki cocktail with pineapple, coconut, orange, and nutmeg
• Ghoul’s Grog: Goslings Dark Rum and Goslings 151 with pineapple, orange, and grenadine 🍩

Marceline’s Confectionery 

• Mickey Pumpkin Apple: Green Granny Smith apple dipped in caramel with marshmallow ears enrobed in orange-white chocolate and green, white chocolate leaf 🍩 🎃
• Minnie Witch Apple: Green Granny Smith apple dipped in caramel with marshmallow ears enrobed in milk chocolate and embellished with a purple skirt, orange chocolate dots, and white chocolate with hat 🎃
• Mickey Sorcerer Apple: Green Granny Smith apple dipped in caramel with marshmallow ears enrobed in milk chocolate and embellished with a red sugar robe, yellow sugar bow, and white chocolate sorcerer hat 🎃
• Skull Apple: Green Granny Smith apple dipped in caramel with marshmallow ears enrobed in red, white chocolate and green, white chocolate skull face 🎃
• Mickey Mummy Marshmallow Pop: Mickey-shaped marshmallow pop covered in vanilla chocolate with dark chocolate eyes 🍩 🎃
• Halloween Marshmallow Wand: Marshmallows on a stick dipped in caramel, enrobed in milk chocolate, and drizzled with orange and purple, white chocolate 🎃
• Minnie Cake Pop with Orange Bow: Chocolate cake pop and chocolate ears enrobed in milk chocolate and embellished with a white chocolate orange bow 🍩 🎃
• Dirt & Worms Cake Pop: Chocolate cake pop enrobed in milk chocolate, sprinkled with cookie crumbs, and embellished with a gummy worm 🍩 🎃
• Mickey Peanut Butter Rice Cereal: Mickey-shaped crisped rice treat dipped in peanut butter milk chocolate and covered in peanut butter candy 🎃
• Mickey Spider Web Rice Cereal Treat: Mickey-shaped crisped rice treat dipped in orange, white chocolate with a black dark chocolate web 🎃
• Oogie Boogie Rice Cereal Treat: Crisped rice treat dipped in green, white chocolate and embellished with a black dark chocolate face 🎃

Naples Ristorante e Bar

• Spookychino: Naples famous cappuccino with edible scary spiders and insects 🎃

Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen (Available September 26 through October 31)

• Candy Corn Cream Soda: Monin Candy Corn Syrup, vanilla, soda, and a splash of cream garnished with candy corns 🍩
• Candy Corn Cream Cocktail with Pinnacle Cake Vodka 🍩

🍩 - New

🎃 ‐ Available through October 31

The Magic of Pinocchio

Disney

Here's a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Disney's live-action Pinocchio. It really does look rather unexpectedly wonderful.

Pinocchio arrives on DisneyPlus on September 8th, DisneyPlus Day. 

Thor: Love and Thunder Is Coming To DisneyPlus

Marvel

Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder is headed to DisneyPlus next month. I can't wait to finally watch it.

Thor: Love and Thunder arrives on DisneyPlus on September 8th, DisneyPlus Day.

Quote of the Week

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

Photo of the Week

I love all of the spooky details in the cemetery of the Haunted Mansion.

Avatar Is Returning To Theaters

20th Century Studios

It has been 13 years since James Cameron's Avatar first arrived in theaters. This September, it's returning to theaters once again.

Avatar arrives in theaters on September 23.

This Pinocchio Trailer Is Surprisingly Delightful

Disney

A new trailer for Disney's live-action Pinocchio has arrived and it is unexpectedly quite charming. Pinocchio was never my favorite movie as a child, but this version with Tom Hanks as Geppetto, looks quite lovely.

Here's the official synopsis from Disney:

Robert Zemeckis directs this live action retelling of the beloved tale of a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto, the wood carver who builds and treats Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) as if he were his own son. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Jiminy Cricket, who serves as Pinocchio’s guide as well as his "conscience"; Cynthia Erivo is the Blue Fairy; Keegan-Michael Key is "Honest" John; Lorraine Bracco is Sofia the Seagull, a new character, and Luke Evans is The Coachman. Also in the cast are Kyanne Lamaya as Fabiana and Jaquita Ta’Le as her marionette Sabina, Giuseppe Battiston as Stromboli and Lewin Lloyd as Lampwick.

Pinocchio arrives on DisneyPlus on DisneyPlus Day, September 8th.

The New Rings Of Power Trailer Is Stunning

Amazon

There are just nine days left until The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrives on Amazon Prime Video. The latest trailer looks just as visually beautiful and emotionally overwhelming as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies. I can't wait! 

The first two episodes of The Rings of Power arrive on Amazon Prime Video on September 2nd.

New episodes will debut each Friday. 

Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To Socialize

I love all of the old songs that were written for the rides at Disneyland. "Yo, Ho! A Pirate's Life For Me", "It's A Small World (After All)", and, of course, "Grim Grinning Ghosts." This version of the song, recorded from home in 2020 by several of Disneyland's Dapper Dans, is one of my favorites.

Princess Week Treats At Disney World

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Disney Princess Week has arrived at Disney World and with it, several delightful sweets and treats throughout the parks and resorts. Which of these lovely desserts would you try first?

EPCOT

Oasis Sweets and Sips

• Jasmine Sugar Cookies: sugar cookies filled with apricot jam

Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe

• Anna & Elsa Cookie: Sugar cookies with chocolate ganache

Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue 

• Tiana Banana Pudding 

Sunshine Seasons

• Anna & Elsa Cupcake: Strawberry cupcake with strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream topped with a chocolate crown

Magic Kingdom

Cinderella’s Royal Table

• Lost Slipper: White chocolate mini slipper with white cremeux pearls tucked inside a milk chocolate dome served with hot caramel

Friar’s Nook

• Snow White Cone: DOLE Whip lemon, blue cone, chocolate bird, and sugar bow

Hollywood Studios 

Catalina Eddie’s

• Enchanted Rose: Dark chocolate, blackcurrant, and morello cherry mousse with whipped cookies ‘n cream fluff, and gilded chocolate-covered cacao nibs on a shortbread cookie

Dockside Diner

• Seaside Brownie: Chocolate brownie topped with white chocolate ganache and seaside garnish

Animal Kingdom

Creature Comforts

• Pocahontas Mousse: Pineapple-banana cake, coconut cream cheese mousse, chocolate feather, and candy gem

Disney Springs

Amorette’s Patisserie 

• Snow White 85th Anniversary Petit Cake: Vanilla chiffon cake layered with apple mousse and cinnamon mousse with white chocolate crunch pearls

Typhoon Lagoon Water Park

Snack Shack

• The Moana Cone: Coconut soft-serve and DOLE Whip strawberry swirled into a chocolate coconut dipped waffle cone with white chocolate and an edible flower

Disney Resorts

Art of Animation - Landscape of Flavors

• Mermaid Cupcake: Vanilla cupcake filled with pineapple topped with a coconut buttercream and a white chocolate mermaid tail

Contemporary Resort - Contempo Café 

• Cinderella Cupcake: Vanilla cake with vanilla crème custard filling, butter cream, white chocolate slipper, and fondant pumpkin

Grand Floridian - Gasparilla Island Grill

• Perfectly Princess Cupcake: Vanilla sponge cupcake with pink buttercream ruffles, white nonpareils sprinkles, and Princess white chocolate coin

Polynesian Village - Kona Island Coffee Bar and Capt. Cook’s

• Moana Mini Cake: Vanilla cake, mango mousse, and a wave of glaçage, buttercream, fondant, and white chocolate décor

Port Orleans: French Quarter - Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory 

• Wishing on Stars: Olive Oil cake, banana cream pie mousse, white chocolate Feuilletine crunch, and white chocolate glaçage (Availability will continue past August 27)  

Riviera Resort 

Le Petit Café 

• Aurora Fruit Tart: Diplomat cream, raspberry mousse, and fresh berries with a white chocolate crown

Bar Riva

• True Love’s Kiss: Limeade, mango, guava, and raspberry glitter foam

Saratoga Springs and Old Key West - The Artist’s Palette and Good’s Food to Go

• Snow White Cupcake: Vanilla cupcake filled with a spiced caramel apple filling topped with caramel buttercream, red chocolate dip, and a red bow