Best places for desserts...
1. Boma at AKL has the best Kahula chocoloate mousse cakes at the dessert end of the buffet. They were so great my dh and I each ate 2 or 3 of them.
2. I love the rice krispy treats with the toppings (chocolate, peanut butter, etc.). You can find them at the gourmet Pantry at DTD, Main Street confectionary at MK, and many others.
3. The ice cream at the shop on Main Street is wonderful. I can't remember the name of the shop, but it is the last shop on the right as you are heading toward the castle from the entrance. If you're waiting for a parade, it's almost guaranteed that you will smell the waffle cones baking!
4. Ghirardelli's Chocolate Soda Fountain at DTD has great waffle cones and different ice cream sundaes/shkaes/etc. I also love the frozen mocha.
5 and by far the best thing to try....
If you have a group of people (any more than four), go to the Beaches and Cream soda shop at the Yacht/Beach Club and order the "Kitchen Sink." It is an ice cream dish that literally is served in a kitchen sink. There is one scoop of each flavor of ice cream they serve (8 in all) as well as every topping they have.
I was there with 8 friends once, and we ordered the kitchen sink. They dim the lights and announce to the whole place that someone has ordered it. Between the 9 of us, we totally pigged out and still didn't finish it. As added fun, another family saw that we got that and they ordered one and the staff turned it into a "friendly competition" to see who could eat it all first. We ended up getting pictures with the family and talking to them afterwards.
I suppose there's nothing like ice cream at Disney to bring people together!!!
I hope my suggestions aren't too ice cream based. We don't eat at the full service restaurants a ton, and if so, rarely order dessert, so most of my tasting has been at the counter services place.
Here's wishing I was on my way to get ice cream now!!!