Help please! 2 Questions re: Coral Reef & Pizza Planet

[ThreeAngels]

Doing the DDP in October, & while perusing the menus of restaurants we're planning on going to, I came up with two questions:

1. Coral Reef-My DS11 LOOOVES chocolate cake of any kind. He would obviously go for the Chocolate Wave cake for dessert, but on the menu, there's an asterisk drawing attention to the fact that the cake contains alcohol. Has anyone had this before? Can you taste alcohol? Is this cake inappropriate for an 11 year old? Also, if he shouldn't have this cake, would they let him get the build your own sundae off the kids' menu or would he have to order dessert off the adult menu?

2. Pizza Planet-on the menu, there are "meal deals". Pizza & salad. Can you order these on the dining plan or would you have to order just the pizza alone and not be able to get the salad?

Hmm, ended up being a few more than 2 questions.

Any answers you could give me would be most appreciated. Thanks a bunch!!

 

[daisyduck123]

We've eaten at Pizza Planet both in January & May when we were on the Dining Plan. For each adult counter-service credit, we were able to get a salad with the pizza. I remember having way too much food. I love salad but we ended up giving another table 2 of our salads...it was just tooo much.

Oh, & each of us also got a cookie with our meal as our dessert.

 

[bluejasmine]

I cant say for sure but I feel like that cake will have very little alcohol in it I would go ahead and order it for him. My understanding is in desserts like that they only put in enough for the alcohol to give it a subtle taste..If I remember right my DS then 11 had the whiskey chocolate cake in LE Cellier.
You will get the salad, pizza, drink and dessert at PP on the DDP

 

[pouncingpluto]

I bet that if you don't mention it to him (or if he doesn't read it on the menu), he won't notice the taste of the alcohol.

 

[kcashner]

I couldn't tell that there was alcohol in the cake except by the menu. It was really good. Your child (Disney adult) will be able to order a dessert off the children's menu if he/you would prefer. They typical cake containing alcohol uses 1/2 to 1 cup of alcohol in the entire cake. This is a large (commercial) cake that is usually cut into 12-16 slices (probably 12 at WDW). Some, but not all, of the alcohol is evaporated off in the cooking process. So, you can calculate the relatively small amount remaining in each slice.

My best estimate is that it is about 1 tablespoon or less per slice (1 cup divided into 12 slices = 3/4 ounce per slice. If 1/2 of that cooks off, you have 3/4 tablespoon remaining per slice).

No flames--I'm not advocating alcohol for children. Just noting that the amount per slice is quite small and that we don't eat food containing alcohol on a regular basis. I did allow my 15 year old to order the cake. After our huge meal, she ate less than 1/2 of the cake.

Pizza Planet was great. We had the pizza/salad combo on the DDP.

 

[!@#$%]

Off the subject, but we all agreed pizza Planet was the biggest letdown we had last trip. The pizza was so bland. The Sams pizza runs circles around it. The frozen ones at Walmart were MUCH better!!!
I was so disappointed. The salad was boring and bland too.
I expected much better of this place.

 

[ThreeAngels]

Thank you all so much for your responses!

If the cake tastes like a yummy chocolate cake, he'd love it. If you don't think that he'll taste alcohol and say "What is THAT?!" and that people won't look at us cross-eyed for letting him order it, I'll let him have his cake and eat it, too!

We're going to Pizza Planet mostly for the kids. Believe it or not, my DS15 REALLY wants to go there. Nothing else CS sounded much better at the Studios. We're going to Mama Melrose's for dinner that evening.

Thanks again for all your advice. I KNEW I could count on this board!

 

[BCV23]

The chocolate wave is delicious and I couldn't taste the alcohol at all.

Our son who is 24 was allowed to have just a scoop of ice ceam for his dessert on the DDP so I'm sure your son could get the sundae if he preferred.

 

[HaleyB]

My daughter loves the Wave, she was 6 the first time she stole it from me.

She also LOVES the build your own sundays though, that was one of the items I checked menus for when I booked ADR's for October. (Spoodles has it too I think).

Oh, and the Wave comes with a little icecream too, so if he picks it he could still maybe ask for some of those great Mickey sprinkles