July is a busy and festive month for Disneyland Resort with various celebrations such as Oga’s birthday in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Disneyland’s 67th anniversary! In honor of these celebrations, Disneyland Resort has released some specialty treats and exciting novelties!
Now through July 17th at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, there are plenty of desserts to indulge your taste buds. At GCH Craftsman Grill, you’ll uncover the Mickey-shaped Chocolate Donut, a tasty Mickey-shaped chocolate donut, and the Disneyland Birthday Cupcake, a vanilla cake with sprinkles and frosting.
Inside the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa at the GCH Holiday Cart, guests can find all kinds of sweet anniversary treats such as the Birthday Cookie Box filled with assorted cookies, the Mickey Shorts Sugar Cookie, Birthday Cake S’mores Cookie with marshmallow filling, Mickey-shaped Whoopie Pie with buttercream filling, and the Birthday Cake Layered Cake Pop with layers of confetti cake and colorful buttercream. The Holiday Cart will also be offering a Birthday Waffle Shot that can be enjoyed with your choice of a variety of milks or alcohol, for those over 21.
For a limited time on July 17th, the anniversary of Disneyland Resort, Red Rose Taverne at Disneyland park will be serving up the brand-new Walt’s Chili Cheese Fries. This entrée will feature seasoned fries topped with Walt’s signature chili, cheddar cheese, and green onion.
From July 18th to July 20th, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be celebrating the birthday of everyone’s favorite cantina owner –Oga Garra. At Oga’s Cantina, there are a few items to try. For beverages, the Blue Citrus Mule features citrus vodka, blue curaçao, pure cane syrup, mule mix, and club soda garnished with a lime wheel and candied ginger and the non-alcoholic Pasaana Punch includes orange juice, white grape juice, red passion fruit, and hibiscus.
Also at Oga’s Cantina, guests can try the Mygeeto Roll which has tuna poke, zhu cucumber, green onion, enoki, eel sauce, fried garlic, vermicelli, and sea bean rolled in rice paper and garnished with ponzu foam.
At Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo, guests can find the tasty Blue Milk Chia Pudding. This treat is made with a coconut milk and chia seed blend, fresh berries, pepitas, and shredded coconut. For a sweet and savory combination, Jat Kaa’s Coolers has Peka Wheat Gear Puffs, crispy wheat puffs in a savory and spicy seasoning blend.
Downtown Disney District will also have some treats to celebrate summer at Salt & Straw and Sprinkles. Salt & Straw will be having a Berry Series featuring fresh flavors of marionberry, blackberry, wild berry, boysenberry, and raspberry.
Sprinkles will be having various seasonal flavors coming up. From July 11th to July 24th, the Circus Animal birthday cake cupcake features pink sugar cookie crust, topped with strawberry buttercream frosting, and finished with rainbow nonpareils and an animal cookie. From July 25th to August 7th, indulge in the Cookie cupcake, a chocolate chip studded yellow cake lined with a cookie crust and topped with brown sugar frosting and dusted with cookie crumbles.
As for the novelties, we have the Birthday Mickey Ear Hat Bowl and Mighty Thor’s Hammer!
The Birthday Mickey Ear Hat Bowl is another great way to join in on the birthday festivities. At Disneyland park, this bowl can be found at Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor. Over at Disney California Adventure Park, Award Wieners will be offering up their mouthwatering Peaches and Cream Funnel Cake Fries in this adorable dish. The only thing that could make these funnel cake fries better is being served in the Mickey Ear Hat.
Mighty Thor’s Hammer is quite a unique piece. This novelty opens up on top to hold a contour bottle or cup and includes your choice of a Coca-Cola bottled beverage when your purchase it. This mighty must-have can be found in Disney California Adventure park at Shawarma Palace, Shawarma Palace Too, and the Outdoor Vending Cart at the entrance to Avengers Campus near Guardians of the Galaxy –Mission: BREAKOUT!
(Note: All offerings are subject to change and availability.)
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