Good Eats Disney Style Chapter 2 - Just Desserts

Let's get back to Walt Disney World and all the wonderful food there! They really go all out when it comes to desserts. I snapped a few pictures on our recent trip of some of the goodies we had.

Chef Mickey's at the Contemporary Resort is one of my family's favorite spots in all of Walt Disney World. A world class buffet is served up while Chef Mickey and his pals roam the restaurant visiting each table. The food is great, including Parmesan Mashed Potatoes which are just about the best mashed potatoes I've ever had. Your meal is capped off with their fabulous Sundae and Dessert Bar. In the picture above, the mouse ear items are a rich Chocolate Creme sitting on top of an Oreo cookie with mouse ears made of solid milk chocolate. They are even better than they look! There's also a fudge brownie with Mickey sprinkles (nice touch) and a Key Lime Tart that is fantastic. I'd say they have about a dozen other such pastries for your choosing, as well as Krispie Kreme donuts, fresh fruit, cookies and candy.

This is the Chocolate Wave from The Coral Reef in Epcot. It's a moist chocolate cake with a hot chocolate syrup center. It is served with brandied cherries and a Mickey chocolate. We thought the presentation was really nice. Jennifer had a Bailey's and Jack Daniel Mousse and I had a Butterscotch Creme Brulee. (I know it's gay, but I like creme brulee.)

We thought this was neat. This is the Kids Kabob dessert at the Captain's Grille at the Yacht Club Resort. It features a rice crispie treat, brownie, strawberry and marshmallow all served up kabob style on a Mickey Mouse krazy straw. It also came with some chocolate mousse for dipping. The kids got to keep the krazy straw!

This beautiful dish is also from the Captain's Grille, a Vanilla Creamery Cake - vanilla cake infused with maple syrup served with fresh berries. Nice...and gorgeous. The Captain served up all sorts of beautiful desserts, I had an English Toffee Mousse Cake with whipped cream and caramel sauce - sooooo good!

Finally, you're looking at a crazy good Chocolate Cake from the Pepper Market at the Coronado Springs Resort. The Pepper Market is our newest discovery and I can't wait to go back there. I had the absolute best Spicy Crispy Beef I have ever had. Plus, all their desserts were way over the top. Joey got some sort of danish that was the size of his head!

Good eats all around from Mickey and his friends!

The Original Ace of Cakes

At some point on this blog I've mentioned my mom's cake decorating business that she had when I was growing up. She quite literally probably made the cake for every birthday party I went to between the ages of 5 and 13. She used to have a photo album of all the cakes she had done, which kind of served as a catalogue for customers. Recently we found a handful of those pictures and they fit right at home here on WWoB, because each one is a little tasty treat of pop culture goodness!

That's tight! I'm sure this was for one of my birthdays. I wonder if she still has the pan?

This Princess Lea cake was for the girl across the street. Judging from the number of candles, the year was 1978 making this one of the first wave of Star Wars cakes.

Ahhh...I had many Smurf cakes throughout the years. This one is especially colorful and was made by tracing a picture out a coloring book onto rice paper. Then coloring it with icing on top.

My mom also made several Pac-Man cakes over the years, although probably only one for me. This cake also has little ghost-monster cupcakes with it. Ain't that cute?

Now this Pac-Man cake is based on the Atari 2600 home version of the game. I can remember my mom watching me play while she sketched down the pattern of the screen. Ya gotta love the attention to detail. Happy 12th Birthday Who Ever This Cake Was For!!

May The Cake Be With You

For whatever reason I do the things I do, I was looking online today for images of Star Wars Cakes when I stumbled across a few other cool cakes like this Super Mario Bros. wedding cake. First of all, how cool is that!? Second, I hope this dude realizes how lucky he is that he got his wife to agree to a wedding cake based on a Nintendo game. I'm sure that's not the wedding cake she dreamed about all her life.

My wife and I kind of kicked around the idea of having a Flintstones wedding. If we had actually gone through with it we might have had a cake like this...