Happy Holidays from Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
It’s the holidays in Hollywood Studios
The decorations are up, the merchandise is on shelves, and new food is coming! But what else is going on in Hollywood Studios? Let’s take a look.
Hollywood Studios Food Updates
Trolley Car Cafe
Bring on the holiday snacks! How could we refuse a Gingerbread Mickey Cookie? This is a Mickey-shaped gingerbread cookie that’s been decorated with vanilla icing and a dark chocolate glaze. It’s got that sweet spicy thing we love about gingerbread, so if that’s your thing, get it for $5.49.
Mickey Mouse Gingerbread Cookie
We also tried a new 50th anniversary snack, the Shimmer and Glimmer Early Grey Cupcake, which is an Earl Grey cupcake topped with orange buttercream frosting, celebratory shimmery sprinkles, and a 50th chocolate coin. We REALLY liked it, too!
Glimmer and Shimmer Early Grey Cupcake
You can get one for yourself for $5.99.
Read our full review here.
Backlot Express
SO many treats to try right now. First up, we tried the Holiday Minnie Mouse Bundt Cake for $5.99. It’s a spice cake rolled in cinnamon sugar with apple pie filling and topped with spiced maple buttercream and salted caramel icing. It did NOT disappoint. We loved the flavors in this one — and all those flavors just worked well together.
Holiday Minnie Mouse Bundt Cake
We also tried the Reindeer Mousse, which is made with spiced cherry-orange dark chocolate mousse, and chocolate cake, placed on top of a gold chocolate cookie base with dark chocolate glaze and milk chocolate buttercream for $5.49. Yes, you would be correct that it sounds good — and it tastes as good as it sounds!
Reindeer Mousse
Our love/hate relationship with the Red Velvet Whoopie Pie continues. This time, you can get it at Backlot Express for $5.29. Some years we love it, other years we hate it. So how was this year’s whoopie pie?
Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
Well…it wasn’t BAD and we liked it better than last year, but we did think the Candy Cane Buttercream inside it was…a choice.
Check out our full review here!
Hollywood Scoops
The candy cane flavor continues because we also tried the Candy Cane Milkshake — it’s a peppermint ice cream shake topped with whipped cream, a chocolate cake doughnut, and candy cane sprinkles for $9.49. Now, that sounds GOOD.
Candy Cane Milk Shake
It’s VERY sweet (there’s a LOT of sugar here), but it IS pretty tasty. You can get it now for $9.49.
Read our full review here.
Woody’s Lunch Box
The Hot Chocolate Lunch Box Tart is filled with a chocolate fudge filling and is topped with hot chocolate marshmallow fondant and mini marshmallows! Although the pastry was good, as it always is, the chocolate on top was not our favorite thing — that fondant was a little TOO sweet.
Hot Chocolate Lunch Box Tart
But you can try it for yourself now for $4.49.
Here’s what we thought about it!
Dockside Diner
But wait, there’s more! We also tried the Holiday Tree Marshmallow at Dockside Diner. It’s made with vanilla bean marshmallow and raspberry jam dipped in chocolate on top of a vanilla cookie. It looks like a Christmas tree!
It’s TOO cute
We absolutely loved it, although we thought it was kinda’ small for $7.49 — we could eat so many MORE of these!
Here’s our full review!
Rosie’s All-American Cafe
The Santa Mickey Cupcake at Rosie’s surprised us. It’s a chocolate cupcake with red almond buttercream, white chocolate, and dark chocolate Mickey ears! But there’s a wonderful secret inside — a Mocha Fudge Filling. That takes the cupcake up a level.
Cute AND tasty!
Be sure to try it out for $5.99.
Here’s our full review!
Hollywood Studios Merchandise Updates
Keystone Clothiers
We found some fun souvenirs at Keystone Clothiers. There’s a Life Day Tumbler for $24.99…
Life Day Tumbler
…a Jawa Plush for $22.99…
Cute Jawa
…a Groot Holiday Plush for $26.99…
I am Groot
…a Life Day Shirt that says “Celebrate Together”…
So sweet
…a Life Day Shirt with Chewbacca…
Chewie
…and a Life Day Chewbacca Plush.
Chewie in Life Day robes
Chewie is $26.99.
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Tower Hotel Gifts
If you’re looking for new jewelry, Tower Hotel Gifts has got you covered. There’s a Minnie Mouse Earring and Necklace Set for $39.99…
Minnie!
…Gold Minnie Mouse Earrings for $29.99…
Gold earrings
…Silver Minnie Mouse Earrings for $29.99…
Silver earrings
…and a Mickey Earrings and Necklace Set.
Mickey set
This set is $39.99.
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Here, we found a Fuzzy Mickey and Friends Jacket for $89.99…
VERY fuzzy
…a Mickey and Pluto Denim Shirt for $64.99…
Denim shirt
…a Jasmine Sports Bra for $36.99…
Jasmine sports bra
…Jasmine Stirrup Pants for $49.99…
Yep, those are stirrup pants
…a Hercules Dress for $128.
Hercules!
…a Mickey and Friends Tee for $36.99…
Mickey and Friends
…BaubleBar Bambi Earrings for $50…
Bambi and friends
…a BaubleBar Dumbo Necklace for $50…
Elephants CAN fly
…BaubleBar Mickey Rings for $50…
Two cute rings
…BaubleBar Holiday Wreath Earrings for $60…
Wreaths
…BaubleBar Chip ‘n’ Dale Holiday Earrings for $50…
Chip ‘n’ Dale
…BaubleBar Donald and Daisy Earrings for $50…
Donald and Daisy
…a Holiday Bracelet for $50…
Holiday food? YES!
…Holiday Mickey and Minnie Earrings for $55…
Mickey and Minnie
…a Wall-E Holiday Shirt for $36.99…
Have a Wall-E Jolly Holiday
…and a Lotso Shirt.
Lotso
The Lotso shirt is $36.99.
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Black Spire Outfitters
Don’t forget to grab a Life Day Hat.
Life Day!
The hat is $29.99.
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Tatooine Traders
This Holiday Ewok is SO adorable. It’s $24.99.
EWOK!
We also found a Grogu Ornament for $22.99…
Baby Yoda
…and a Droids Shirt.
R2-D2, C-3PO, and BB-8
The Droids Shirt is $36.99.
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Celebrity 5 & 10
Check out the new stuff we found at Celebrity 5 & 10. There’s an Emperor’s New Groove Pin for $17.99…
Emperor’s New Groove — YES!
…a Star Wars Cantina Pin for $17.99…
Cue the cantina song
…a set of Marvel Bowls for $34.99…
Bring Marvel to your kitchen
…a Mickey Joy Pillow for $59.99…
Fun holiday pillow
…and a Nightmare Before Christmas Ornament Set.
This Is Hallo…err…Christmas
The ornament set is $44.99.
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Jessie’s Trading Post
Here we found a Holiday Card and Envelope Set for $19.99…
Stationery set
…and a Sulley Stocking.
It’s FUZZY
This fuzzy stocking is $29.99.
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They’re back!
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We went last November couldn’t get the carrot cake cookie at the Trolley Car because they temporarily replaced it with the Red Velvet. Please tell me that the carrot cake cookie is still available at the Trolley Car and the red velvet is just at Back Lot.