California Adventure Food & Wine Dessert Tasting

Last updated on February 19th, 2025 at 01:53 pm

Disney California Adventure Food & Wine dessert tasting guide is here!

Disney’s Food & Wine Festival is an annual event at California Adventure featuring California inspired food and wine, festival marketplaces, culinary demonstrations, along with live music and entertainment. But in this article I’m covering all the desserts to satisfy your sweet tooth at Food and Wine!

Food & Wine Festival runs February 28 – April 21, 2025

Wine tasting? Sure, they’ve got that covered. But I’ve gathered all the top desserts at the Food & Wine Festival booths so you can hop from place to place and satisfy your sweet tooth while at Disney California Adventure Park this spring. 

Churros

Churros and Disneyland are a match made in heaven and specialty churros are the perfect match for Food and Wine Festival. Churros need to be ordered at the specific churro stand offering that flavor. Be sure to pick the most appealing flavors in advance and don’t pass by if you see that cart.

You have 4 churro options that have come just for Food & Wine Festival:

1. Crème Brûlée Churro: Pastry cream, strawberry coulis, and crushed brûléed sugar (Terran Treats at Avengers Campus)
2. Mango Sticky Rice-inspired Churro: Classic churro rolled in sugar with sticky rice and mango pieces (near Goofy’s Sky School and Señor Buzz on Pixar Pier)
3. Peach Tea Churro: Classic churro rolled in peach sugar with diced peaches and peach tea sauce (Hollywood Land)
4. Strawberry-Caramel Churro with whipped topping, strawberries, and caramel (Willie’s Churros on Buena Vista Street)

Keep in mind the churros don’t often offer a good value if you’re using your Sip and Savor credit (formally Sip and Savor “tabs”) to purchase churros. You’re better off paying with cash, card or gift card for this one.

Cake and Ice Cream Desserts

Get that extra sweet treat at the end of your meal, or between meals with cake, ice cream and my favorite Mickey shaped macaron.

These desserts are available at Food and Wine Festival Marketplace booths, keep your receipt and pick it up whenever you’re ready that day:

• Cherry Cobbler Pot de Crème: Vanilla custard, cherry filling, and oat crumble (Golden Dreams Marketplace)
• Mickey-shaped Macaron made with SNICKERS bar pieces: Chocolate Mickey-shaped macaron filled with caramel ganache and made with SNICKERS bar pieces (Uncork California Marketplace)

• Café de Olla Tres Leches Cake: Café de olla-infused tres leches topped with piloncillo chantilly, cinnamon, and a Mickey-shaped cookie. (Mercado de Antojos Marketplace)

No time to wait? Place a mobile order for dessert after your next ride:

• Pineapple and Coconut Cheesecake: Coconut cheesecake topped with pineapple jam, pineapple mousse, and a maraschino cherry. (Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta). You won’t need to mobile order this one but you can, you can also walk right in and grab it since it’s cafeteria style.
• Coffee Bundt Cake: Coffee bundt cake with chocolate mousse filling and a coffee-flavored liqueur glaze (Cappuccino Cart)

• Strawberry Shortcake: Angel food cake, vanilla ice cream, strawberry syrup, whipped topping, and fresh strawberries (Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream). I loved this and would for sure get it again, similar to strawberry short cake.

If you’re doing sit down dining at Lamplight Lounge, they also have a Strawberry Donuts selection special for Food and Wine Festival. 

Drink Your Desserts 

Drinks as desserts—absolutely! Here are my favorite sweet and delightful non-alcholic beverage items on the menu this season. Order these non-alcoholic drinks from any festival marketplace, keep your receipt and pick it up whenever you’re ready that day:

• California Punch: Mango purée, guava nectar, cucumber syrup and lemon juice, garnished with a mango chile lollipop (California Craft Brews Marketplace)
• Huckleberry-Citrus Cooler: Gold Peak Black Tea, huckleberry and agave syrups, grapefruit soda, and lemon and orange juices garnished with an orange wedge (Garlic Kissed Marketplace)

• Raspberry Horchata: Raspberry, almond and cinnamon syrups, rice pudding, milk, and condensed milk garnished with skewered raspberries (Mercado de Antojos Marketplace)

• Blueberry Pancake Cold Brew: Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Co. Mexico Origin Coffee, maple syrup, brown butter and demerara syrups, and oat milk with a blueberry sweet cream garnished with cinnamon-flavored cereal crumble (Golden Dreams)

Want to mobile order your non-alcoholic beverages instead? Try these:

• Study Break Brewery Lychee + White Tea (Schmoozies) idk, does this really count as a drink dessert?
• Strawberry Horchata: Sweet rice beverage with cinnamon and strawberry purée (Cocina Cucamonga) 

And we’ll close out our dessert selections with one more look at those amazing Snickers Macarons! I mean, don’t you wish you could take all these home?!

Jr Chef Dessert at Food and Wine

Another dessert crawl option that is not only free, but perfect for your little ones is Junior Chef.

This daily event is available on a first-come, first-served basis for children ages 3 to 11 in the Hollywood Backlot. Check the entertainment schedule on the Disneyland App to see what times are available. Park admission required.

Sip, Savor and SAVE at Food and Wine Festival

There are a few ways to save money during your Disneyland vacation. Here are my top savings tips for Food & Wine Festival:

1. Get discount tickets for your trip, including the SoCal deal tickets, at rates even cheaper than Disneyland offers. 
2. Use a Sip and Savor Pass when it makes sense. The Sip & Savor pass essentially offers you u a set number food items and/or non-alcoholic drinks at a flat price. However, you want to make sure the items you order are above that flat price amount. More on that here.
   
   

Keep in mind the Sip and Savor food credits cannot be used for mobile ordering yet. It’s definitely something I hope comes in the future! Don’t forget to check out our full guide to Disney California Adventure’s Food and Wine Festival here.