Disney Springs is often overlooked and people don’t realize all of the great eats and drinks that it offers! Being that I have a pretty prominent sweet tooth, let’s discover all of the sweet shops in Disney Springs and the best treats to order! Now, every restaurant has some form of a dessert menu, but we’re not looking at those today. We’re going to focus on the places that treat sugar like a core food group, here the best desserts at Disney Springs!
Amorette’s Patisserie
Amorette’s a super fancy little bakery that will make you feel like you're in Paris, but with Minnie's ears. This bakery is most known for its extravagant petit cakes and mickey dome cakes. Amorette’s often promotes Disney’s latest movies or shows with promotional desserts.
Remember that Wanda Vision cake that was a retro TV, complete with black and white screen made of chocolate?!? They may be pricey at $22, but they are more than Instagram-worthy, they are a memory.
MUST HAVE TREAT: Mickey Mousse Dome Cake… $9.00
If you are on a solo trip or adult-only trip to Disney World this is an absolute must have to start your vacation! It has fancy flavors but screams “Mickey” with the cute trademark ears. This is a chocolate chiffon cake with dark chocolate and white chocolate mousse, topped with a red glaze. Nothing says “I’m at Disney” like eating something Mickey-shaped.
Disney’s Candy Cauldron
Disney’s Candy Cauldron takes our classic Disney memories from our childhood and plussed it up a bit. Sure you can find basic caramel apples, marshmallows, or cupcakes, but you can also find fun new flavors, as well! For summer they are featuring a lot of pineapple flavors, like the pineapple flavored cupcake and pineapple sugar cookie. Strawberry is also a heavily featured flavor this month. Personally, I live for the chocolate dipped mickey marshmallow covered in crushed candy canes. I will just have to wait until December, I guess!
MUST HAVE TREAT: Werther’s Original Caramel Apple Pie Candied Apple… $10.99
Buckle up - This is a granny smith apple dipped in Werther’s Original Caramel with marshmallow, white chocolate coating, graham cracker crumbs and cinnamon sugar. The only thing that could possibly make this better is if Cast Members could cut our candy apples again. Disney - if you read this, we’re on our knees begging to bring this service back so we can enjoy your apples again!
Erin McKenna’s Bakery NYC
Listen up, all you gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan-friendly, you need to visit Erin McKenna’s Bakery NYC! Seriously, you can eat EVERYTHING on the menu? If you have allergies or special diets, you are used to disappointment. Either sweets have an ingredient that is trying to kill you or they taste like cardboard posing as a cupcake. Not here! Everything is delicious, even if you don’t have special dietary needs!
MUST HAVE TREAT: Coffee Crumb Cake… $4.75
A crumbly, buttery, cakey, slice of cinnamon deliciousness? And it has no butter, eggs, or milk? Color me shocked and awed. And going back for more!
Everglazed Donuts & Cold Brews
Everglazed is what you get when you ask a group of children what should go on top of donuts. They have a menu featuring wild concoctions, including an odd amount of cereal-themed donuts, read our full review here. I guess that is a fun twist on a breakfast food that isn’t exactly breakfast-y. If you want to play more with the breakfast/dessert theme, grab a glass of cereal milk. Do you know how the milk is sweet and flavored at the end of your bowl of cereal? Yeah, grab a glass of that. If that’s pushing it a bit for your adventurous side, grab a nice nitro cold brew.
MUST HAVE ITEM: Super Chocolate Topper… $11
This is a double chocolate nitro iced coffee paired with a Brooklyn Blackout donut. This pair is a chocolate lover’s dream with the donut being a chocolate glazed donut, mini chocolate chips, and chocolate wafer cookies. Live your chocolate dreams!
Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop
You can smell it as you approach. The aroma of hot fudge just permeates the area of the Disney Springs Marketplace. Ghirardelli is the place for classic flavors done exceptionally well with high-quality ingredients. Indulge in hot fudge, caramel, and nuts on your ice cream delicacies.
MUST HAVE ITEM: Magical Sundae…$15.25
The Magical Sundae is a classic hot fudge sundae with a Disney twist! Do you know how you make something decadent like Ghirardelli even better? Top it with waffle cone Mickey ears!
Gideon’s Bakehouse
Gideon’s Bakehouse is the newest cult craze to come into Disney World, well, Disney Springs to be exact. This cookie shop is so popular that it operates with a virtual queue that can be hours long! Gideon’s is all about the oversized, over-topped, over-delicious, cookies, but they also feature cake by the slice and cold brew coffee. To be honest, I’m not sure if it’s the cookies or the elaborate fun, gothic-style backstory that Gideon’s has created! Disney is a sucker for a theme, so Gideon’s fits right into the mix.
MUST HAVE ITEM: Cookies & Cream Cookie & The Original Peanut Butter Cold Brew $12.00
You read that right, peanut butter cold brew. It is so different from the norm, you just have to, right?! Now onto the main attraction - the cookie. This baby is a brick house of deliciousness. These babies are heavy enough to be used as a paperweight and nice and thick. If you are a fan of cookie dough, then these are the winners for sure.
Goofy’s Candy Company
Remember how the description of Disney’s Candy Cauldron was a more refined version of classics? Goofy’s Candy Company is the complete opposite! Filled with bright colors of every hue, Goofy’s candy selection is sure to make you and your kids just like him, Goofy! There are giant Goofy pixie sticks, Goofy’s Glaciers (AKA slushies), candy by the pound, and a bakery case filled with fresh-baked treats. The real winner here is the design your own treat that they have available here!
You will be given a questionnaire to build your perfect treat, starting with whether you want to have a cereal treat, cookie, or marshmallow wand. Then you choose what you want it dipped in, white, milk or dark chocolate. Next, you choose toppings and drizzles. Go wild! Get a cereal treat covered in chocolate, oreo pieces, and peanut butter drizzle! Live your best life!
MUST HAVE TREAT: Design your own treat… $ Varies by item
After reading how fun that would be, was there any doubt that this would be the MUST HAVE item?? All things considered cost-wise, the rice cereal treat is the best bang for your buck.
Haagen-Dazs Kiosk
It’s a real mystery what this kiosk sells… Ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes, and iced coffee. The flavors change regularly, but they stay steady in the “safe zone” with nothing overly adventurous. I’m trying really hard to be impartial here, but it is literally the same stuff you buy in the grocery store, but a lot more expensive. This is one of those times where if you’re jonesing for some ice cream, skip this place and check out literally anywhere else. See Ghirardelli, Vivoli il Gelato, and Salt & Straw, or Marketplace snacks below.
MUST HAVE ITEM: Nothing. Nothing here is a must.
Marketplace Snacks
