The Disney College Program - Episode 182 of The Disney Exchange

The Disney Exchange is Lisa, Dave, and me, Nick

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This week we welcome special guest Joseph Green, Lisa's son, who shares his experience with The Disney College Program.

The Wheel of Distiny topic this week: Where is your favorite place to have ice-cream at Walt Disney World? 

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Mickey Pants Sundae

by Gaylin

At the Plaza Ice Cream Parlour on Mainstreet, in the Magic Kingdom, you can get a good treat and a great souvenir. A souvenir I have always wanted! I meant to get one on my last trip to Walt Disney World, when I had someone to share it with but we forgot. This time I decided that for the sake of research and my need for the souvenir, I would go it alone.

What am I talking about?

Mickey's Kitchen Sink Sundae or as I call it the Mickey Pants Sundae.  I think it is pretty reasonable to get this great souvenir and a big treat for $14.99.

Here is my sundae, one scoop of chocolate and one of vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce and even though I said no whipped cream, I ended up with it anyways. Darn.

For the sake of research, I did my best but I could not finish all of this. I did dig out all the fudge sauce as it was really good, so was the chocolate ice cream. The vanilla was kind of tasteless.

I was worried I wouldn't get it home intact, that the handles or faucet would break off but I did it! Now I just have to find something special enough to put in the pants bowl!

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 Me and Barbie

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As you have perhaps gathered from the title this episode is about Ice Cream at Walt Disney World. And cheese. Why cheese? Because Lisa does not have much of a sweet tooth, so she shares her favorite places to get cheese plates.

 

 Waffle Bowl Sundae and ice cream sandwich 

at The Plaza in the Magic Kingdom

Kitchen Sink and Banana Split at Beaches and Cream

In addition to Dave and my favorite places for ice cream, we share responses that we received from listeners and friends (which should NOT be mutually exclusive, yet are) as well! Thank you for all the feedback!

The Wheel of Distiny topic : Favorite place to watch a sunset at Walt Disney World.

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December '14 Walt Disney World Trip Report : Part 5

By Nick

Wednesday, December 10th

Barbie and I had breakfast at Roaring Forks, the counter service restaurant at the Wilderness Lodge, and met up with the rest of the gang and headed to the Magic Kingdom for the day.

 Jill, me, Barbie, Josh and Nicole

We stopped at Gaston's so Jill, Nicole and Josh could get a bite to eat.

Have you seen the Cinnamon Roll at Gaston's? It's the size of a small child.

We rode Under the Sea-Voyage of the Little Mermaid and followed it up with a photo with Ariel.

We hit several more attractions before breaking for lunch at Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe.

A few more attractions, various photo ops...

...and a lot more walking made us hungry for dessert, so Josh, Jill and I got ice cream from The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor while Barbie and Nicole got popcorn.

Barbie got me the Mickey Elf popcorn bucket!

We picked a spot for the Festival of Fantasy Parade.

We headed back to the Wilderness Lodge where we had to sadly say goodbye to Nicole.

That evening, Jill, Josh, Barbie and I headed to Epcot, where we stopped at several photo spots, really trying to get the most out of Memory Maker.

We had dinner at La Hacienda de San Angel...

 ...with the perfect end.

No, not a shot of tequila and a beer!  Illuminations Reflections of Earth, with the special Holiday tag.

Earlier Parts of the trip report:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
                                         

L'es Artisan de Glaces in Epcot's France Pavilion

by Gaylin

When I am in between Disney World trips, I keep up my reading and research online to know what is new in the World. Before this last trip I was quite happy to read about a new ice cream shop that had opened in the France Pavilion at Epcot.

The whole time I was on vacation in May of 2014, the weather was hot. 95F (37C) or hotter with the usual melt-your-brain humidity. My first visit to Epcot included a trip to L'Artisan des Glaces and I wasn't disappointed.

The shop is not very big and for some reason was not crowded any time I went in it. I visited 5 times (or was that 6) during my vacation! Having food allergies limits what treats I can have and when I read that L'Artisan had ice cream sandwiches made with macarons, I knew I would be trying one.

You can see from the display of ice cream there are 16 choices on any given day and they do change the flavours. The macaron ice cream sandwiches are on the bottom row, 3rd from the left. I was surprised by the size of them, as macaron cookies are usually quite a bit smaller. They cost $3.99 ($4.25 after tax) and were well worth it.

They are served in a piece of folded wax paper with french news stories on the outside. The sandwich was really good, macarons are usually quite sweet but this was not overly sugary and the ice cream had a nice dark chocolate flavour. I admit, I did have another one on a separate visit, for research sake, to make sure they really were that good . . .

There are tables outside the shop, turnover is quite quick, people are willing to share so finding a seat was not difficult any of the times of was there.

One of the other treats I had was a Cafe Glace, iced coffee with a scoop of ice cream. This was really yummy, I chose Caramel Fleur de Sel (salted caramel) ice cream and the combination was lovely. The other 3 times I went I had a single scoop of the Caramel ice cream in a cup, you can get cones as well. Again, $3.99 + tax.

I would highly recommend giving Artisan a try, the flavours were great, the staff was nice and the lack of crowd, no line-up whatsoever was awesome.

On a side note, because the marcaron was so good at Artisan, I decided to try a Mickey Macaron one day. Cute! Also grossly oversweet and almost flavourless. The filling was mildly lemon flavour, I admit this is the only time I have thrown out a treat at Disney without finishing it. If you have a sweet tooth, these are for you, if you don't just admire their cuteness in the display case and keep going!

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Epcot Dessert Party

By: Laurie

We recently attended the new Epcot Dessert Party.

It is held in the old Odyssey restaurant next to Mexico in World Showcase.  As it had been raining off/on all day, the night no different.  This is a prepaid ticket event. We checked in at 8:00 pm and received a really cool Mickey head sticker to identify us as members of the party.

The offerings were amazing.. shortbread cookies, donuts, tiramisu, Disney parks ice cream treats..oh my!

The Italian champagne was wonderful.  There was also coffee, water, lemonade...I stuck with the champagne!

I tried all the offerings except the ice cream bars.

We sat around a table with other foodies enjoying the snacks and met some lovely people.

At 8:45 pm...they walk everyone over to special standing area to watch Illuminations.

 
This was a wonderful experience and one I look forward to doing again!

The Kitchen Sink at Beaches and Cream

Imagine going into a restaurant and ordering a Kitchen Sink, and you really get the kitchen sink! Despite the fact that it was freezing cold and January, that's what my husband and I did with our friends, Kandi and John. The lights in the restaurant dimmed, you could hear the crowd hush and people started clapping and ta dah! This is what was delivered to our table!

 Here's a listing of what this amazing dessert includes:
(thank you to disneyparks.com for this thorough breakdown) 

• fudge topping, warmed
• butterscotch topping, warmed
•  peanut butter topping, warmed
• 1 medium banana, sliced in 1/2 –inch slices
• 1 cinnamon spice cupcake, quartered
• 1 angel food cupcake, quartered
• 2 4-oz. scoops vanilla ice cream
• 2 4-oz. scoops chocolate ice cream
• 2 4-oz. scoops strawberry ice cream
• 1 4-oz. scoop mint chocolate chip ice cream
• 1 4-oz. scoop coffee ice cream
• 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup
•  marshmallow crème
•  strawberry topping
•  pineapple topping
• 1 14-oz can dairy whipped topping
• 1 brownie, quartered
• 1 regular-sized (2 ounce) candy bar, quartered
• 4 chocolate cookies (oreos-basically) with cream filling
• 1 tablespoon sliced toasted almonds
• 1 tablespoon dark and white chocolate shavings
• 1 tablespoon chocolate cookies with cream filling, crushed
• 1 tablespoon chopped jellied orange slice
• 1 tablespoon milk chocolate chip morsels
• 1 tablespoon peanut butter chip morsels
• 1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles
• 1 tablespoon rainbow sprinkles
• 1/2 cup drained maraschino cherries

Barbie, Kandi, John, Nick

Look at us, we didn't know what we were getting into! We couldn't stop laughing once we saw what this was, and it was ours! The question now, could we finish it off? It's a long list of ingredients, too many to ponder on for any length of time...so did we finish it, and was it any good? Well, the consensus was that it was an fun and awesome dessert, that definitely needs to be shared with good friends; and yes, we absolutely were able to finish it off, and almost wound up licking the sink clean!!

Don't get the wrong idea, we're not done yet in this pic!