Editor’s Note: Information updated as of August 2012.
How to order a cake depends on what kind of cake you want and where you want to have it.
Podium cake with custom inscription at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Disney Restaurant Podium Cakes
If you’re OK with a simple supermarket-style cake in vanilla or chocolate, you can get one just by asking at the podium when you check in for your reservation at any Disney restaurant except Victoria & Albert’s. These 6-inch cakes serve 5 and cost $21 plus tax.
Basic Custom Cakes
With 48 hours’ notice, most restaurants also offer basic custom cakes in larger sizes and a limited range of flavors with basic decorations. If an 8-inch cake is offered, it will be available in chocolate or vanilla and cost $32–$35 (serves 8). Ordering a 10-inch cake ($45, serves 16) will get you more flavor choices—usually vanilla, chocolate or marble cake filled with vanilla buttercream, chocolate buttercream, white chocolate mousse, dark chocolate mousse, strawberry mousse, or raspberry mousse and covered in vanilla or chocolate buttercream or whipped cream. Sheet cakes are available in 1/4 ($55, serves 25), 1/2 ($80, serves 50) and full ($120, serves 100) sizes. The price of adding a screen-printed image to a cake varies by location and ranges from as little as $2 to as much as $35—and at some places it’s free!
Mickey Mouse cake at BoardWalk Bakery
Most restaurants also offer a Mickey Mouse cake in the shape of his head bearing a screen print of his face for $48. It serves 10–12 people, is available in white or chocolate cake with chocolate filling, and is covered in chocolate ganache. Although the cake cannot be customized, you can have a message written on the serving plate. At restaurants serviced by the Contemporary Resort Bakery, the Mickey Mouse cake may be covered in piped buttercream frosting rather than a coating of chocolate ganache.
CLICK HERE for photos of basic custom cake styles.
Fancy Fondant-Covered Cakes & Mini Cakes
If you’re looking for an elaborate fondant-covered cake, a mini cake, or cakes in nonstandard flavors, only the bakeries at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, the Contemporary Resort, BoardWalk Inn, Animal Kingdom Lodge, and the Yacht & Beach Club offer these, and only BoardWalk Bakery will let you pick up a cake. Note: The bakery at Animal Kingdom Lodge will not make mini cakes or fancy fondant cakes smaller than 10 inches.
Custom cake at the Contemporary Resort
However, if you’re staying or dining at the Polynesian Resort, you can get a fancy cake by calling Private Dining at the Grand Floridian. For fancy cakes at the Wilderness Lodge, and Fort Wilderness, call Private Dining at the Contemporary. For fancy cakes at the Magic Kingdom, call Cake Hotline at 407-827-2253 and choose option #4; or email [email protected]. For fancy cakes at Epcot’s Coral Reef, Garden Grill or Le Cellier, call Private Dining at the Yacht & Beach Club. Fancy cakes are also available at Caribbean Beach, Old Key West, Pop Century, and Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, which are serviced by BoardWalk Bakery, and at Art of Animation, which is serviced bythe Yacht & Beach Club. For these resorts, call the Cake Hotline and follow the prompts for your resort to place your order. You can pick up your cake at the restaurant or food court; many resorts will even deliver it to your room. Complete details on the cake choices and prices at each park and resort can be found on the Disney Cake Options By Location page.
To order, call Walt Disney World’s Cake-Ordering Hotline at 407-827-2253.
At this time, Disney has no email address you can write to with a cake inquiry, and there is no Disney-run web site showing cake options and prices. When ordering a fancy custom cake, you may run into difficulty with Private Dining cast members who are not aware of the bakery’s capabilities. Politely ask to speak to the pastry chef directly so that you can get the official word on cake options.
Need more cake info or details on flavors and embellishments available? Visit our Disney Cake FAQ page that Carrie put together for us!
Carrie Hayward is the author of PassPorter’s Disney Weddings & Honeymoons (http://www.passporter.com/weddings.asp), a guidebook and bridal organizer for weddings and honeymoons at Walt Disney World and on the Disney Cruise Line. Follow her adventures in Disney dining at http://disneytravelbabble.com and @lurkyloo on Twitter.
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I also saw at the Boardwalk bakery a few weeks ago that they now make mini mickey head cakes that would probably serve two people. They are much like the mini wedding cakes you can order. They were so cute!
Thanks for the “heads up” on the mini Mickey cakes! Yum!
Great info for WDW! Are there any options for the Disneyland Resort in California?
Disneyland has a much smaller operation. There is one central bakery that makes the cakes for all the resorts and full-service restaurants in the parks. They only offer 6-inch cakes ($39)
or 10-inch cakes ($62), plus quarter, half and full sheet cakes.
Cake flavors: vanilla, chocolate, red velvet or carrot
Filling flavors: vanilla custard, whipped cream, white or dark chocolate mousse or chocolate ganache
Frostings: whipped cream, buttercream, chocolate ganache or chocolate mousse
Disney requires 48 hours’ notice for all custom cakes. To place an order if you are staying at a Disney resort, call 1-714-300-7526 and select Option #2. To place an order if you are not staying at a Disney resort, call Disney Dining at 1-714-781-3463.
LurkyLoo! I do love reading your writeups!
UPDATE: Turns out those cake prices are for cakes delivered to your resort room, which means they include a 19% gratuity. If you order a cake for a restaurant at Disneyland, the prices are
6-inch: $33
10-inch: $52
1/4 sheet: $67
1/2 sheet: $92
Full sheet: $132
Super helpful info. Love this post!
Thank you SO MUCH for this post (and the DLR info in the comments).
We’ll be celebrating 2 birthdays at Disney Parks this year — Hubby’s 40th at DLR in June and my oldest son’s 10th at WDW in December — so I’ll be referring back to this post often in the coming months!
I will order one when I arrive in Walt Disney Orlando next year. The cakes are so cute and I loved it!!
I hope to have our 50 anniversary (next year ) at Disney chapel! We hope to book rooms at Animal Kingdom for guests. Help!!!! Who do I talk to? Please help! Marilyn E
Marilyn E — I would start by calling Disney’s Fairytale Weddings and Honeymoons at (321)-939-4610. Congratulations, and good luck!
We are having our son Birthday at WDW in a week he is so into Star Wars and would like to get a cake with some kind of Star Wars on it can any one help?
Penny — Give the cake hotline a call. Their number is 407-827-2253. For more info on Disney World cakes, visit our Disney World Cakes FAQ Page.
We are celebrating my mom’s 70th birthday next November with dinner in Citricos. Does anyone know how I would go about ordering a cake that I could collect from The Contemporary reception or concierge desk to take back to our off-site hotel after the meal? Many thanks for any advice, Jenni x
Jenni — Happy early birthday to your Mom! I would give the Cake Hotline a call at 407-827-2253. You can also order a custom cake from Amorette’s Patisserie in Disney Springs with 72 hours notice. Their number is 407-934-3500. I am curious about your request to pick up at the Contemporary; just wanted to make sure that you know that Citricos is in Grand Floridian. Please forgive me if I’m being unnecessarily “helpful.” 😀
Can you buy those little chocolate cakes that came as dessert with your quick serve meals. Does anyone remember them? Are they available anywhere?
Brad, I have fond memories of those sugary cakes! We haven’t seen them on the menus for a bit, but they could return.
I want to order a cake for my granddaughter for our visit on oct.16 we will be staying at wilderness lodge but am having trouble figuring this out and want to get this done before I leave. One less thing to worry about can someone please help me.?
Donna, we have a Cakes FAQ here that might help.