Official Disney Cake Chatter - Part IV! (2012-2016)

[lurkyloo]

I ordered 2 cakes for our vow renewal in October, one from disney and one from a woman previously mentioned and recommended on this thread so I wanted to leave a follow up review. I did not have the same experience as the person who recommended them, in fact I had a pretty awful experience and learned my lesson, disney is the way forward!

In planning for my next cake order I realized that I never posted pictures of our cake from Oct 2013. We were celebrating my nephew's 2nd birthday at The Wave at CR. Chef Brian made our cake- a "yellow" cake with creme filling & strawberries. I told them to make it "Disney whimsical" with Mickey Ears on top with his name. Going by memory, I think this was around $80. It tasted AMAZING!!

Thank you both for sharing your experiences!

I check in on this thread periodically just for fun (love to look at all the pics!) but now I have a real reason to plan! Hoping to go for my brothers birthday. He is an adult, but has cerebral palsy, is severely handicapped and loves Cinderella! We are planning to do his birthday dinner at 1900 PF for dinner and I would love to get him a special cake. Which of the bakery numbers would be best to go through to get him a special cake? And does anyone have a suggestion? It's for a summer trip so I have plenty of time to plan! TIA!

You would call Grand Floridian Private Dining: 407-824-2474. Depending on how large a cake you're interested in, they have large and mini white chocolate Cinderella castle toppers, a Cinderella white chocolate figurine, and assorted sizes of chocolate slippers, so maybe they can help you with some combination of these on/next to a cake.

 

[amw]

Has anyone had experience ordering a cake at Coronado Springs -- or any images? We are staying there & I would rather not carry a cake through the parks.

Alternatively, can the Boardwalk do special cupcake orders for pick-up, or just the larger cakes?

Ideally I just wanted a smaller 8-inch cake with simple disney design or screen.

Don't want to have to call internationally until I know exactly what I want.

 

[jockey]

Chef Brian made a cake a few years ago for my daughters 3rd birthday... I would like to get one for her this trip...I am thinking of getting it delivered to afternoon tea at the GF....we are there after the 5k race that we are all doing together...will Brian be able to arrange the cake for here or do I need to contact someone else?

 

[Roobear77]

I just spoke with a lovely lady names Lauren at GF private dining. I ordered an 8" marble cake with chocolate filling and vanilla buttercream with a Frozen screen print on it for my daughter's 6th birthday next Monday. This is a surprise trip for her birthday, she has no idea we are going, and I had a panic attack this morning because I forgotten about ordering a cake. Crisis averted, cake ordered, 5 sleeps! Will post pics when we get back.

 

[Dis703]

Who has tried the mousse fillings? Specifically white chocolate or milk chocolate? Were they delicious? Also, does mousse have to be refrigerated?

When I had buttercream and fresh strawberry filling I didn't refrigerate it and the strawberries started to go bad after a few days. We never have room in the fridge for leftover cake.

 

[JnKinVA]

I am still waiting for an email back from Johanna at the Y&BC. I have emailed her twice and have not had any communication in a week.
I am at the Beach Club now and am tempted to speak to someone about this. I am needing the cake for Saturday and I am here, on vacation, not really wanting to be stressting about a cake that I don't even know they can do because of the picture.

 

[lurkyloo]

Has anyone had experience ordering a cake at Coronado Springs -- or any images? We are staying there & I would rather not carry a cake through the parks.

Alternatively, can the Boardwalk do special cupcake orders for pick-up, or just the larger cakes?

Ideally I just wanted a smaller 8-inch cake with simple disney design or screen.

Don't want to have to call internationally until I know exactly what I want.

Coronado Springs is separate from the Disney pastry team and does their own cakes in a limited number of styles. I wasn't a fan of the cake slice I bought there because they use whipped cream frosting instead of buttercream, but maybe if you did a custom cake they could make you some.

BoardWalk Bakery would have no problem doing an 8-inch cake with a screen print.

Chef Brian made a cake a few years ago for my daughters 3rd birthday... I would like to get one for her this trip...I am thinking of getting it delivered to afternoon tea at the GF....we are there after the 5k race that we are all doing together...will Brian be able to arrange the cake for here or do I need to contact someone else?

No, the Grand Floridian makes the cakes for restaurants at the Grand Floridian, so you'd need to call their Private Dining (see Post #2). Chef Brian works at the Contemporary.

Who has tried the mousse fillings? Specifically white chocolate or milk chocolate? Were they delicious? Also, does mousse have to be refrigerated?

When I had buttercream and fresh strawberry filling I didn't refrigerate it and the strawberries started to go bad after a few days. We never have room in the fridge for leftover cake.

I've had both and thought they were decent. The white chocolate is VERY sweet. I'm not much of a mousse fan, though. It definitely needs to be refrigerated. Bell Services can keep the cake in their fridge if it won't fit in yours.

I am still waiting for an email back from Johanna at the Y&BC. I have emailed her twice and have not had any communication in a week.
I am at the Beach Club now and am tempted to speak to someone about this. I am needing the cake for Saturday and I am here, on vacation, not really wanting to be stressting about a cake that I don't even know they can do because of the picture.

I would call Beach Club Private Dining ASAP.

 

[MOM POPPINS]

Our kiddos had this set up for a surprise for hubby and I for our 22nd anniversary.

 

[MOM POPPINS]

This was for our daughters 17th birthday Snow White inspired cake! It was wonderful!

 

[isabellea]

Our kiddos had this set up for a surprise for hubby and I for our 22nd anniversary.

Looks great! Was the cake a 6 or 8 inches?

 

[MOM POPPINS]

6 inches

 

[MOM POPPINS]

Prices were 70.00 for 6 inches and for Snow White 10 inches 165.00

 

[boomgoesthemickey]

What are the odds of getting a gluten free figment cake for a bog dinner? I've read this thread over and over and all I've seem to have done is confused myself, thank you in advance

 

[JnKinVA]

I would call Beach Club Private Dining ASAP.

I gave her until the end of business today, so now I will call...
And I hate when I feel like I am being ignored. If they can't do this cake, I am not doing another. There is no time to really think of anything else and I don't like being rushed.

 

[Dis703]

What are the odds of getting a gluten free figment cake for a bog dinner? I've read this thread over and over and all I've seem to have done is confused myself, thank you in advance

I have no idea about Figment but I had no issues getting a gluten free cake last year made by the Contemporary bakery (which I believe still covers BoG).

 

[boomgoesthemickey]

I have no idea about Figment but I had no issues getting a gluten free cake last year made by the Contemporary bakery (which I believe still covers BoG).

thanks very much i'll contact them.

 

[Dis703]

I've had both and thought they were decent. The white chocolate is VERY sweet. I'm not much of a mousse fan, though. It definitely needs to be refrigerated. Bell Services can keep the cake in their fridge if it won't fit in yours.

Okay, thanks! I'm not set on mousse just trying to come up with an alternative to buttercream that ODS will still eat. But if it needs to be refrigerated that's out. I like to keep it in the room as I take a few bites here and there throughout the day.

Can they do different fillings on different layers? I think I've seen that before. If so maybe we'd just go with 2 layers of chocolate buttercream and one of vanilla. How is the chocolate buttercream usually?

 

[MinnieM21]

Our kiddos had this set up for a surprise for hubby and I for our 22nd anniversary.

This was for our daughters 17th birthday Snow White inspired cake! It was wonderful!

Love both of the cakes! What kinds were they?

 

[Kona2012]

Here are the pictures of the the cake I had done for my husband's 47th birthday on Jan 2nd. We celebrated at Trattoria Al Forno - excellent by the way. I ordered the cake from the Boardwalk bakery and all went off without a hitch. The only issue was I couldn't pay for the cake ahead of time so I had to pay with the bill and used my TIW discount card, which meant I got 20% off but paid tip on the cake too. It actually didn't bother me much since our server was awesome!! The cake was an 8in, marble with butter cream. I took the inspiration from another Splash cake that I saw on this website but I didn't want a two tier cake. I was thrilled that they were able to do it as a single tier and for $80!!

I'll have to post pictures in my next post since I need 10 posts to post an image. This is my 10th post... Stay tuned...

 

[Kona2012]

Pictures from Trattoria Al Forno, cake from Boardwalk Bakery

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