My Disneyland dining reviews, with pictures

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

There is usually cocoa in it as well to assist turning the cake red.

I just recently found out about this (i'm kind of embarrassed that I didn't know). I LOOOVE red velvet. Its my favorite kind of cake. Each time I've had red velvet it has been very rich an moist. I think maybe you haven't had a good red velvet cake Sherry? Don't give up on it!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

I had to post some food pics for now (not all from my last trip but here's some just to start).

I went to Blue Ribbon Bakery with my fiancee and cousins and had some sweets for breakfast :

Sticky Bun:

Pumpkin Muffin w/ cream cheese frosting:

Shortbread Snowman & white chocolate mocha:

Butter Croissant:

 

[Disneylvrforever]

In the movie "Steel Magnolias" (set in the South, like Lousiana or Georgia, not sure), Julia Roberts gets married and she has one cake for her and her female guests, but her dad wants an armadillo cake (just a cake made in the mold/shape of an armadillo) for the groomsmen. The armadillo cake is red velvet, so when you cut into it, it looks like a bloody armadillo!! Ick!

I totally remember that! Didn't her dad want the butt of the armadillo? Well, someone did.

 

[Sherry E]

I just recently found out about this (i'm kind of embarrassed that I didn't know). I LOOOVE red velvet. Its my favorite kind of cake. Each time I've had red velvet it has been very rich an moist. I think maybe you haven't had a good red velvet cake Sherry? Don't give up on it!

It is entirely possible I didn't have good red velvet cake any of the times I have tried it, but it was dry every time. But very pretty to look at. Good to serve around the holidays. I LOVE regular cake with really good frosting (lemon cake - YUM!), but can't eat that kind of stuff for the most part, so I have to make my cake samplings few and far between!

I totally remember that! Didn't her dad want the butt of the armadillo? Well, someone did.

I think so, now that you mention it! I think he wanted the piece with the armadillo red velvet booty! Red velvet cake is usually quite pretty, but when you slice into a cake that looks like an armadillo - especially the booty - er, uh...not so much!!!

 

[Queenbillabong]

Red velvet cupcakes are an offshoot of full red velvet cakes. Red velvet cakes are very popular in the southern states of the US, especially. I have known a few southern folks who love their red velvet cake! They tend to be kind of dry for my liking, but they are pretty to look at. Very vibrant red when you slice into them. It is basically cake with a whole lot of food dye mixed in!! And they tend to have cream cheese frosting - at least the ones I have tried - so perhaps the ones at DLR have more of the regular cupcake frosting than the cream cheese kind.

So they're basically chocolate cupcakes with lots of red food coloring to turn them red? Um, I think I'll pass then. They look pretty, but I think I can do without......

 

[Sherry E]

So they're basically chocolate cupcakes with lots of red food coloring to turn them red? Um, I think I'll pass then. They look pretty, but I think I can do without......

The red velvet cake I had didn't taste particularly chocolatey, but they do have cocoa in them. And if I am going to eat cake at all, I personally prefer the really good, thick cake icing, not cream cheese frosting. But most folks like cream cheese frosting. In any case, I don't think you are missing out on anything too great if you never try red velvet cake! Regular cake is good enough!

 

[Queenbillabong]

The red velvet cake I had didn't taste particularly chocolatey, but they do have cocoa in them. And if I am going to eat cake at all, I personally prefer the really good, thick cake icing, not cream cheese frosting. But most folks like cream cheese frosting. In any case, I don't think you are missing out on anything too great if you never try red velvet cake! Regular cake is good enough!

Works for me!! The last thing I need is another thing I MUST try at DL I'll probably save my cake eating for when I can get really good cake. I don't like that icing they use - too sweet for me.

 

[Stacerita]

The red velvet cake I had didn't taste particularly chocolatey, but they do have cocoa in them. And if I am going to eat cake at all, I personally prefer the really good, thick cake icing, not cream cheese frosting. But most folks like cream cheese frosting. In any case, I don't think you are missing out on anything too great if you never try red velvet cake! Regular cake is good enough!

Works for me!! The last thing I need is another thing I MUST try at DL I'll probably save my cake eating for when I can get really good cake. I don't like that icing they use - too sweet for me.

I personally love red velvet cakes with the cream cheese frosting. This one didn't have that frosting. So I passed on it.

 

[Sherry E]

I personally love red velvet cakes with the cream cheese frosting. This one didn't have that frosting. So I passed on it.

I haven't had any of the DLR bakery cupcakes yet - I only tried the one that I tried at Goofy's Kitchen (The cupcake was not good at all) when they brought it out for my friend's birthday - but the ones I saw in Marceline's were huge. It does look like they have a really thick icing on them, so I can see how it would be very sweet. Sometimes frosting can be TOO much. I mean, IF I am going to eat a piece of cake, like a wedding cake or a birthday cake from a bakery, I like a good thick frosting but not one that is so sweet that it will put me in a coma or overpower the rest of the cake! That kind of frosting may be too much for a cupcake. And since people are used to cream cheese frosting on thier red velvet cakes, I don't know why DLR can't offer a version of the red velvet cupcake with that cream cheese frosting!

 

[Lostgirlz]

Ok, born, and raised Louisiana girl here. Steel Magnolias was filmed in Louisiana 30 mins from my parents home. Jackson the groom wanted a bleeding armadillo grooms cake. The dad wanted a piece of cake and asked weezer if they could stop fighting long enough to get some cake which at that point weezer hacked off the rear end. LOL I know my steel magnolias. It's really easy to see the houses/neighborhoods it was filmed in. Also red velvet cake is super good. I make mine from scratch if you're not carefull it can be dry. You should give it a try you don't notice the food coloring other than the color. I think you will like it. Also there is a cake lady that lives in the same town as my parents who made the armadillo one for the movie, but to order one that sucker aint cheap.

 

[Sherry E]

Ok, born, and raised Louisiana girl here. Steel Magnolias was filmed in Louisiana 30 mins from my parents home. Jackson the groom wanted a bleeding armadillo grooms cake. The dad wanted a piece of cake and asked weezer if they could stop fighting long enough to get some cake which at that point weezer hacked off the rear end. LOL I know my steel magnolias. It's really easy to see the houses/neighborhoods it was filmed in. Also red velvet cake is super good. I make mine from scratch if you're not carefull it can be dry. You should give it a try you don't notice the food coloring other than the color. I think you will like it. Also there is a cake lady that lives in the same town as my parents who made the armadillo one for the movie, but to order one that sucker aint cheap.

I loved Weezer! Shirley Maclaine was so great in the movie! So we were in the right ballpark - we knew it had to do with the wedding and the dad and the armadillo booty!!! Thanks for putting it all together! In any case, it was a red velvet cake in the South!

I actually knew that Steel Magnolias was filmed in Louisiana (my New Orleans friend told me about it back then). I just didn't recall if the story was supposed to be set in Louisiana. You know how movies are filmed in one place that is supposed to stand in for some other place? I couldn't recall if Steel Magnolias' story was set in another Southern state like Georgia or Alabama. But they do love their red velvet cake all over the South! My former boss (from Alabama) was a big red velvet fan too!

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

Ok, born, and raised Louisiana girl here. Steel Magnolias was filmed in Louisiana 30 mins from my parents home. Jackson the groom wanted a bleeding armadillo grooms cake. The dad wanted a piece of cake and asked weezer if they could stop fighting long enough to get some cake which at that point weezer hacked off the rear end. LOL I know my steel magnolias. It's really easy to see the houses/neighborhoods it was filmed in. Also red velvet cake is super good. I make mine from scratch if you're not carefull it can be dry. You should give it a try you don't notice the food coloring other than the color. I think you will like it. Also there is a cake lady that lives in the same town as my parents who made the armadillo one for the movie, but to order one that sucker aint cheap.

This is one of my favs too! My DH crings every time it comes on because he knows I will quote the whole thing and cry in the end everytime.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Sherry! You live in LA! Go to Sprinkles cupcakes, wait in the crazy line and go get a red velvet cupcake! Dooo itttt!!!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

This is one of my favs too! My DH crings every time it comes on because he knows I will quote the whole thing and cry in the end everytime.

Oh I cry EVERY TIME! That movie is just too perfect. I love everything about it. I secretly think I should have been born a southern girl. My favorite part of the movie is after the funeral. Sally Field did such an amazing job.

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry! You live in LA! Go to Sprinkles cupcakes, wait in the crazy line and go get a red velvet cupcake! Dooo itttt!!!

Ooooh...you are not kidding about the crazy line at Sprinkles! I wish they had more Sprinkles shops around L.A. (like one in The Grove would be ideal) so that this one location wouldn't be AS crowded! They actually do deliver the cupcakes to my area, too, but they don't have every kind of cupcake available on every day. Only certain ones can be delivered on certain days, and of course, it is not cheap. Now I am craving cupcakes, darn it! Not the red velvet kind, but just a good, moist cupcake with lots of good frosting that isn't SO sweet it will put me into a sugar coma! I want a lemon cupcake! Yum!

Oh I cry EVERY TIME! That movie is just too perfect. I love everything about it. I secretly think I should have been born a southern girl. My favorite part of the movie is after the funeral. Sally Field did such an amazing job.

I LOVE Steel Magnolias too. Actually, I like Julia Roberts in general, but I think the ladies in that film have such great chemistry together and they are all so naturally funny - you really believe that they have been hanging around each other all their lives. And I tend to HATE "chick movies." If I see a movie is coming out about women bonding or young girls bonding, I will not watch it. (Except for "Sex and the City," which I am a huge fan of - OH! And there is a FOOD tie-in, since this is a dining thread - Sex and the City often featured the Magnolia Bakery - which is famous in New York for their CUPCAKES!! See how this all comes around full circle?) In any case, Steel Magnolias is such a good movie in general, I tend to forget it is a chick flick!!

And how can you not love a movie that features a bloody armadillo cake at a wedding?

Someone post some more food porn before I have to give in and go find myself a cupcake to eat!

 

[smiley_face2]

I had to post some food pics for now (not all from my last trip but here's some just to start).

I went to Blue Ribbon Bakery with my fiancee and cousins and had some sweets for breakfast :

Shortbread Snowman & white chocolate mocha:

mmmmmmm this was exactly my favorite treat this trip...I have a nearly identical picture!!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

mmmmmmm this was exactly my favorite treat this trip...I have a nearly identical picture!!

That is too funny !!!

My cousin really enjoyed it

 

[TheAXIOM]

That is too funny !!!

My cousin really enjoyed it

Oooh yes... Sooo good it was .

That shortbread cookie was sooo nice and moist inside... And I think that white mocha made me an official coffee lover... Which I have kept away from for such a long time because when I was a little younger I didn't want anything in my system that would stunt my growth (I'm pretty short), and the research back then said coffee would stop you from growing, so....

 

[DWFan4Life]

Here is what they give you at Goofy's Kitchen if it's your birthday!

Goofy's Kitchen = best breakfast buffet, ever.

I agree. Goofy's Kitchen is the best. My DD also got something like that when we celebrated her birthday in our last trip. She's very happy eating those m&m

 

[mareeld86]

I am 1 day away woo hoo cant wait until i get to try all these yummy foods