Disney4me Posted November 9 Report Share Posted November 9 The holidays have arrived in Disney World — and you know what that means? It means it’s time for the first Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party in Magic Kingdom. Party map! Bring on the snoap, the fun holiday parade, the entertainment, the special characters…we are HERE for it. But more importantly, what we REALLY love to do at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is eat (yes, yes, I know you are SO surprised). So we tried some of the new eats at this year’s party and we’re going to give you our honest thoughts about ALL of them! Alright, let’s get to eating! We’re heading to Aloha Isle in Adventureland first to try two party-exclusive floats. The Holiday Pineapple-Orange-Guava Juice Float is made with Pineapple-orange-guava juice, coconut soft-serve, and a spiced pineapple tree pop for $9.00. Yep, it’s a POG float with coconut soft-serve, and we were very intrigued! However, while there wasn’t anything wrong with this one, it was just meh. We really didn’t feel it was worth $9, as it didn’t feel very festive other than the Christmas tree cake pop on the side which tasted like gingerbread cake (we enjoyed that!). Overall, it’s not bad, but we just don’t feel it’s worth your money when it’s so basic. Holiday Pineapple-Orange-Guava Juice Float We also picked up the Cranberry Citrus Float for $6.49. It’s made with Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry and fruity boba pearls topped with DOLE Whip. This one was really the standout here, as it felt much more festive and the flavors worked so well together! The popping pearls were a great difference in texture, and overall, out of the two, we recommend this one way more. Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry Okay, we’re heading into Tomorrowland to stop by Auntie Gravity’s Galactic Goodies. We picked up the Lump of Coal in Your Stocking, which is the only lump of coal we WANT to see this holiday season. It’s $8.49 and it’s a Cookies and cream shake topped with whipped cream, cookies and cream crumbles, and a chocolate doughnut hole. This is just your standard cookies and cream milkshake, so while it wasn’t anything special, it wasn’t bad! We don’t think it’s worth $9 though. Lump of Coal in Your Stocking We also picked up the Smoky Chocolate Brownie Sundae for $8.29, which is a house-baked brownie topped with smoky chocolate soft-serve covered in chocolate cone dip topped with marshmallows and festive sprinkles. Stay tuned for tasting notes! This one honestly gets points for just being weird! The chocolate coating is where the smoky flavor comes from, and you really won’t taste the smoky-ness until the aftertaste. It kinda tastes like you’re eating campfire smoke, and while it’s interesting, it’s likely not going to be a winner for a lot of guests. Smoky Chocolate Brownie Sundae Okay, time to double back to Main Street, U.S.A. to visit Casey’s Corner for its exclusive party snacks. The Holiday Dinner Hot Dog is an All-beef hot dog with turkey and gravy, fried onions, and cranberry sauce for $12.99. We loved all the flavors on top of this hot dog, they were a real winner, but the bun and hot dog itself took a little bit away from those flavors. If you’re looking for a meal with all these wonderful Thanksgiving flavors, this is the one to go with over the fries, in our eyes. Holiday Dinner Hot Dog We paired that with the Holiday Dinner Loaded French Fries for $6.99, which are French fries with turkey and gravy, fried onions, and cranberry sauce. Yes, that is INTERESTING, to say the least. And just like with the hot dog, we LOVED these flavors! The toppings were very generous, and we preferred this flavor profile with the fries over the hot dog by just a little bit. We do think this is shareable if you’re only looking for a snack, but it could also be a meal for one person! Holiday Dinner Loaded French Fries The Candy Cane Tart for $6.29 is a Chocolate tart filled with peppermint ganache topped with festive meringue. We LOVED this snack for its nice minty flavor in the past, but how does it fare this year? We loved how creamy and soft the chocolate filling was, and while the peppermint on top was very light, but definitely didn’t skimp on that peppermint flavor. While we thought it was very good, it’s not something to necessarily go out of your way for when you’re about to get a ton of free cookies. Candy Cane Tart The Black Currant and Mint Lemonade for $7.29 is new, so we had to try it, too. We didn’t expect to enjoy this, to be honest, but we loved the combination of the tart and sweet, and the mint really helps break up the sweetness of the rest of the slushy. It’s certainly more advanced and complex than most slushy drinks, so while we wouldn’t necessarily say to get it, if you’re looking for something interesting, it’s worth a try! Black Currant and Mint Lemonade How about some ice cream? Plaza Ice Cream Parlor is offering a Gingerbread Milk Shake made with vanilla ice cream, gingerbread syrup, and ginger snap crumbles topped with whipped cream and a chocolate piece for $8.99. While this was super soft and creamy, it really just tasted like a vanilla milkshake with something off. It took us a few sips to even notice the gingerbread flavor, and while we thought the toppings were cute, we don’t think this is really worth the spend. Gingerbread Milk Shake You can also get a Peppermint Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich for $7.49. It’s peppermint ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal-peppermint chip cookies and rolled in candy cane pieces. This is 100% shareable, despite what you may think at first. The peppermint ice cream was fantastic with maximum peppermint taste, but we did with there were candy cane pieces mixed into the ice cream, not just on the outside! We also really loved how unique the cookies were — they weren’t necessarily fantastic, but they were so unique, which earned it points in our book. If you’ve got someone to share it with and you like BOTH oatmeal cookies and peppermint ice cream, give this a try, but otherwise, just stick with the holiday treats! Peppermint Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich We stopped by the Main Street, U.S.A. pretzel cart to try the Festive Pretzel, which is a Jumbo pretzel with chocolate-hazelnut drizzle, caramel sauce, TWIX Cookie Bar Pieces, and festive sprinkles for $12.50. Yep, this baby has a LOT going on, but we loved it! The savory and sweet combination was incredible, even though the pretzel was slightly stale. It was SO messy with all that hazelnut spread and they don’t skimp on the toppings, but it’s certainly shareable, and we overall recommend this one! Festive Pretzel We also HAD to try the Gingerbread Cola for $5.00, which is Coca-Cola served with gingerbread syrup. Okay…we were curious, but we have to tell you — this thing is WEIRD. It’s sickly sweet and reminds us of a medicine, if we’re honest. The gingerbread syrup is a hint of cinnamon and sugar, but again it has a syrupy sweetness like it’s trying to hide a bitter taste. If you’re looking for a pick-me-up, we just recommend a regular coke. Gingerbread Cola On to Fantasyland. At The Friar’s Nook, you can pick up the Holiday Pot Roast Hot Dog for $12.99. This is an all-beef hot dog topped with braised pot roast, Swiss fondue, horseradish mustard, and crispy onions. This was one of our reporter’s favorite thing she had! She loved the horseradish mustard and the crunch of the onions, but our other reporter thought it was dull and thought it just tasted like a normal hot dog. Holiday Pot Roast Hot Dog The Italian Beef Tots certainly sound good. They’re $11.29 and are tots topped with braised beef, cheese curds, zesty giardiniera, and red wine gravy. So they’re sorta’ like poutine, but with tots. These are heartier fries than what you’ll find at Casey’s Corner during the party, and we love how the pot roast truly tasted homemade. We do wish there were more cheese curds, but overall, it was solid! Italian Beef Tots Gotta’ try something sweet, of COURSE, so we ordered the Sugar Cookie Hand Pie for $6.29. It’s sugar cookie dough wrapped in a flaky crust with icing and festive sprinkles. This was controversial for our team — it’s such a strange treat with how crispy it is on the outside (thanks to that glaze on the outside), but since it was so warm, the glaze was melting down our hands! It was a little too messy and sticky for us, but for one of our reporters, it was worth it because the inside literally tasted like licking sugar cookie dough off the spoon. It gave her those warm holiday feelings you want from treats like this, but for our other reporter, it wasn’t worth the mess. If you’re sensitive to being slightly sticky and/or getting messy, this likely will NOT be the treat for you, but if you love sweets and you’re willing to brave it, we say go for it. Sugar Cookie Hand Pie The Toasted Marshmallow-Panna Cotta Tart with graham cracker, ganache, and a macaron for $6.49 certainly got our attention. This was NOT great in our opinion. It was super thin and watery in our opinion and the marshmallow topping reminded us of a strange frosting. While the salted caramel macaron was good, it wasn’t enough to save the whole treat. Toasted Marshmallow-Panna Cotta Tart Our final sweet treat here was the Eggnog Shake, which is made with eggnog soft-serve with ginger snap crumbles topped with whipped cream and festive sprinkles for $8.49. This was one of our reporter’s favorite ice cream of the night! It truly tastes like straight eggnog (without the liquor, of course). It was super refreshing but also heavy and comforting like eggnog is. If you’re a fan of the drink and like ice cream, definitely give this a try! Eggnog Shake The flatbreads at Pinocchio Village Haus are always hit or miss, but we had to try the special party-exclusive Baked Brie Flatbread for $13.29. It’s made with a brie-cheese spread, mango chutney, green apples, arugula, almonds, and a honey drizzle. This was fantastic! A perfect mix of sweet and savory and the Brie is melted really well, is super creamy, and has a great flavor. The mango chutney reminded us more of orange marmalade, but it was delicious nonetheless, and the mango flavor wasn’t overpowering. The fruity chutney really complements the Brie, and the apples were a wonderful texture, adding a bit of crunch and tartness to the dish. The arugula was a little sparse but when you did get a piece it worked really well with all the flavors. The sweet honey drizzle was the perfect finish and we were just so impressed with how well all the flavors worked together. We highly recommend for slightly more adventurous eaters! Baked Brie Flatbread We also grabbed the Black Forest Parfait, a flourless chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and cherry chantilly topped with brandy-cherry compote and chocolate popping candies for $5.99. This was really tasty as well, but we wished there was a bit less whipped cream on top. The chocolate cake and chocolate mousse had a wonderful deep chocolate flavor and the cherry compote was fantastic. The compote has full soft cherries mixed in that add a pop of tartness, but we will say we didn’t notice any popping candies on top like the description says. If you’re a fan of Black Forest cake, this parfait does not disappoint, it has all the flavors and they combine perfectly! Black Forest Parfait But hold on, we’re JUST getting started. It’s over to Frontierland to hit up Golden Oak Outpost next. Here, we tried the Holiday Chicken Nugget Platter. For $11.29, you get crispy chicken nuggets with sage butter and cranberry barbecue glaze served with mashed potatoes and corn. While we didn’t dislike this, we’ll be honest and say we don’t think it was worth the price. It’s more of a kids meal size, and for $11, that’s a LOT to pay for something that won’t fill you up. We also couldn’t taste a lot of the barbecue sauce because it was only drizzled only the chicken nuggets. Overall, it’s okay if you want something savory, but we don’t think it’s worth it. Holiday Chicken Nugget Platter You KNOW we weren’t going to pass up the Festive Beignets for $7.29. You get 3 light and fluffy beignets dusted with blue sugar cookie dust and served with cookie butter icing. Um…YUM? We LOVED these! We didn’t think you could make beignets any better, but these DO! We loved the cookie butter icing and the sugar cookie dust — it was very messy, but totally worth it to us. If you love sweets, this is something you’ve got to try! Festive Beignets You know that fried ice cream you can get at your local Mexican restaurant? Well, Disney has a Fried Ice Cream Christmas Tree and it’s made with peppermint ice cream rolled in cereal topped with green cookie butter whipped cream and festive sprinkles for $8.79. This was just weird, and our reporter usually loves a good friend ice cream. It fell apart so easily, and it was nothing to write home about. It was essentially mush, and while the peppermint flavor came through, we don’t think it was worth the price. Fried Ice Cream Christmas Tree Yee-haw! Let’s get on over to Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe to see the goodies available there. We were pretty stoked to try the Carne Asada Loaded Fries for $11.99, which are seasoned french fries with carne asada, chipotle queso, caramelized onion, avocado salsa verde, and queso fresco. Unfortunately, these weren’t our favorite. They’re very seasoned and were delicious themselves but the carne asada was very tough and had a very strong smoky/chili pepper flavor. The chipotle queso was similar to plastic cheese with a bit of chipotle flavor. We liked the creaminess the queso fresco added and the avocado salsa verde added additional creaminess, and chili pepper and chipotle were definitely the overwhelming flavors in this dish, but the meat just wasn’t great because it was so tough. Carne Asada Loaded Fries We paired those fries with a Salted Caramel Horchata for $5.49. Okay, so we LOVE horchata, so what did we think of this take on the classic Mexican drink? This, on the other hand, was fantastic! Definitely a very sweet drink but the combination of milk, cinnamon and caramel was wonderful. The balance between all the flavors was great and they melded together really well. A delicious horchata! Salted Caramel Horchata Okay, one more stop on our Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party snacks trail. We’re at Liberty Square to enjoy the party offerings at Sleepy Hollow Refreshments. The Orange Chicken Tenders for $10.99 are fried chicken tenders with orange-soy glaze, glass noodles, green onions, and crispy garlic. These were…okay. The glass noodles in this dish were crunchy and hard, which we’re not sure was a good thing, and while we didn’t mind that the orange sauce on the tenders was your “regular” orange sauce, the tenders were almost dry. They’re hard to cut up in the box, but they’re too saucy to pick up with your fingers, so while we didn’t hate these, we didn’t love them either. Orange Chicken Tenders We also ordered the Szechuan Cauliflower, which is spicy breaded cauliflower tossed in szechuan-soy glaze for $8.99. Spicy? We’ll be the judge of that…and the verdict is that while this was our favorite of the three items here, it still wasn’t great. The cauliflower was soft on the inside and had a nice breading, which paired well along with the sauce that had actual spice to it (so definitely may not be great for kids or picky eaters). This would be what we’d recommend over the other meal here, but there are so many better options at the party. Szechuan Cauliflower The last thing on our list? The Brownie Peppermint Bark with peppermint candy pieces for $5.49. WOW y’all, we won’t sugarcoat it — this was bad. It was immensely hard and tasted so stale it was practically inedible. Our reporter took one bite of it and had to fight the urge to spit it out. It has the potential to have a nice chocolate flavor, but it was entirely masked by how stale it was. Brownie Peppermint Bark Okay, y’all, we are TIRED. We ate a LOT, but we wanted to make sure you knew about everything available at the party! We’ll be here all NIGHT, so stay tuned to DFB for more. 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