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Category Archives: Snacks & Treats
What makes Disney’s Aloha Isle so Popular?
Upon walking into Adventureland you see the familiar Disney sign above. Aloha Isle Refreshments by Dole. For as long as I remember going to Walt Disney World I loved stopping off here to have a refreshing Dole Whip or Dole Whip Float.
Most people consider this as one of the top eats for their Disney Vacation. No matter how many lists you see from Disney Fans in the boards, or on sites like Disney Food Blog the Dole Whip is always on top for snacks.
What makes this tiny little Ice Cream Counter so popular?
Is it because other than Disney Parks or attempting to make it at home this is the only place you can sample their delicious, delectable, and delightful goodies?
It can’t be, because AJ at Disney Food Blog shared with us Hidden Places in the US that you can sample this treat.
Or maybe its the amount of ice cream choices that is available?
Any Baskin Robbins would dispel that myth.
How bout the location?
While it is close to the center of the park and is a perfect spot to grab a snack for a parade or fireworks, I can think of other places on Main Street USA with better locations.
I am unsure why this little spot in Walt Disney is so popular among the natives. I will tell you one thing I am certain of people love Aloha Isle! No Disneyworld trip would be complete without at least a few snack credits being used at this wonderful Disneyworld shop.
Let us know what you think makes Aloha Isle so popular in the comment section below.
Disney Food Confession – Mango Pie & Ordering Info
Where is it? The Yak & Yeti Restaurant – Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World.
What is it? Shortbread cookie crust, fresh whipped cream and raspberry sauce
Why you want it? Light, Fluffy and Delicious.
Photo Credit: by sanctumsolitude via Flickr
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Ordering Info
Ok here is the info. The Mango Pie at the Yak & Yeti is not made in house. Disney gets their pies from Kenny’s Great Pie Company. You can go here and order the Mango, Key Lime or Lemon Pies and have it delivered to your door.
Source for Pie Info
The ‘Sunnyside’ of Disneyworld’s Sleepy Hollow
Walt Disney Imagineering Art Director Alex Caruthers recently shared a little-known piece of trivia with me regarding the inspiration for the Magic Kingdom Park quick service restaurant Sleepy Hollow, located in Liberty Square. I have been passing Sleepy Hollow regularly, since 1974, and never gave a thought as to a “story line” … (There is ALWAYS a story line).
Sleepy Hollow (the restaurant) offers tasty caramel corn, assorted cookies and refreshments, and is generally busy most of the time. Washington Irving is the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – you remember Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. In 1835, Irving purchased a tiny, two-room cottage situated on ten acres in Tarrytown, New York, along the banks of the Hudson River. He described the place “capable of being made a little paradise.”
Irving spent many years remodeling and expanding the residence, combining elements of colonial New York architecture and buildings he knew in Scotland and Spain. He named it Sunnyside in 1841, and history shows that the home was a busy place, full of friends and family most of the time – not unlike the restaurant.
Click here to keep reading this article from Disney Parks Blog.
Disney Food Confession – Beignets with Recipe
Where is it? Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory Port Orleans Resort, French Quarter in Walt Disney World.
What is it? Hot, delicious doughnut like treat fried up fresh and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Why you want it? Can’t get any more fresh than them making them right in front of you. Comes to you piping hot and ready to eat!
Photo Credit: By Blogography via Flickr
If you have a Disney Food Confession email chip@chipandco.com or let us know on the Disney Food Confessions Facebook page.. He is accepting Food ideas or Photos if you have them!
Make your own Beignets
Ingredients
1 pack dry yeast
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
7 cups flour
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tsp Salt
1 cup undiluted evaporated milk
1/4 cup soft shortening oil, for frying
Confectioner’s sugar
Method
In a large bowl, sprinkle yeast over water, stir to dissolve. Add sugar, salt, eggs, and milk. Blend with rotary beater. Add 4 cups of the flour. Cover and chill overnight. Roll out on floured board to 1/8″ thickness. Cut into 2 1/2″ squares. Deep fry at 360 degrees 2-3 minutes or until lightly browned on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle heavily with confectioner’s sugar. Makes about 5 dozen.
NOTE: Dough keeps well in refrigerator for several days. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and punch down occassionally.
Wizarding World of Harry Potter Top 5 Butterbeer Recipes
I know this it not quite Disney News but with Harry Potter fever hitting the Orlando Area and the Deathly Hallows set to release in a few months I thought of no better time to share with you the Top 5 Butterbeer Recipes from around the interwebs. When I did a search there are probably about 100 different recipes out there, these seem to be the most popular.
Universal is keeping a tight lid on the recipe but there are some very talented people out there who have come up with both alcoholic and nonalcoholic varieties of this wonderful concoction.
1. This comes to us from Mugglenet.com
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (8 oz) club soda or cream soda
- ½ cup (4 oz) butterscotch syrup (ice cream topping)
- ½ tablespoon butter
Directions:
Step 1: Measure butterscotch and butter into a 2 cup (16 oz) glass. Microwave on high for 1 to 1½ minutes, or until syrup is bubbly and butter is completely incorporated.
Step 2: Stir and cool for 30 seconds, then slowly mix in club soda. Mixture will fizz quite a bit.
Step 3: Serve in two coffee mugs or small glasses; a perfectly warm Hogwarts treat for two!
2. This is the same as #1 minus the butter
Ingredients:
- 8oz ginger ale or cream soda
- 2-3 tablespoons of butterscotch syrup
Directions:
1. Mix in a tall glass and serve over ice
3. Here is a nice Alcoholic version for the Adults
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butterscotch schnapps
- 7 cups cream soda (2 liter bottle)
Directions:
1. Carefully mix just before serving, adding the schnapps to the soda then stirring gently to mix well, or the fizz will dissipate too soon
4. Here is one from the Food Network show Semi-Home Made with Sandra Lee
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 cup butterscotch topping
- 2 tablespoons whipped butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups vanilla cream soda
Directions:
Combine condensed milk, butterscotch topping, and butter in a glass heatproof measuring cup. Heat in microwave for 1 minute. Remove and stir until butter has melted and incorporated into mixture. Meanwhile heat cream soda in another heatproof measuring cup for 1 minute 30 seconds.
Divide butterscotch mixture between 2 (10 to 12-ounce) mugs. Fill mugs with heated cream soda and stir thoroughly. Serve garnished with an old-fashioned butterscotch candy stick.
5. Here is a very different one from CD Kitchen.com
Ingredients:
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream (softened)
- 1/2 stick butter (softened)
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 quart apple cider
Directions:
Cream butter, sugar and spices together. Beat in the vanilla ice cream. Re-freeze the mixture. Scoop out the frozen mixture into a glass. Pour hot Apple cider over the ice cream mixture.
Optional: add an ounce of rum for an adult treat.
