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Disneyland Article
8 Dollar Treat Is Seeing Huge Demand Hours Long Waits
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TMS-5902
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SFGate
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Julie Tremaine
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It’s an inevitable reality that a trip to Disneyland takes more planning than ever. Guests need to make park reservations weeks or months ahead of time, strategize early in the day about which rides to reserve through Lightning Lane, and book dining reservations as soon as they open up, usually 60 days out. It all adds up to an enormous amount of time spent on your phone on the Disneyland app.

But this year, there’s another thing that needs advance planning: where you’re going to get the most in-demand treat of the year. The beloved Mickey gingerbread cookie is harder to get than it’s ever been. Earlier in the holiday season, guests were reporting up to 11-hour waits when placing mobile orders at locations like Jolly Holiday Bakery, one of the few locations where the Mickey-shaped gingerbread cookies are available.

The treats are already so popular that guests buy them in bulk and hoard them at home, freezing the cookies for a taste of the holidays throughout the year. This year’s waits, though, have been even longer than anticipated. In response to demand, Disney has removed Mickey gingerbread as an option when mobile ordering from places that offer them. Among those locations: Jolly Holiday and Market House in Disneyland Park; Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe in Disney California Adventure; and the snack cart in the lobby of the Grand Californian. (A lesser version of the cookie, shaped like a Mickey head with sprinkles and not nearly as flavorful, is available at other locations.) For those willing to brave waiting in line which, at the Grand, often stretches through the lobby and out the doors into the courtyard the limit per guest is five cookies per transaction.

Inside the park, the cookie sells for $7.99. In the hotel, the only location outside the parks where the coveted snack is available, it’s $10.50.

Even without Mickey gingerbread as an option, locations that specialize in other holiday sweets, like Mickey-shaped peppermint and white chocolate crispy rice treats, have been seeing a huge customer demand. As of 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 11, mobile orders for Jolly Holiday Bakery were totally full for the day.

Disneyland has a unique relationship with gingerbread. Every year, the Grand Californian builds an enormous showpiece gingerbread house that weighs hundreds of pounds, and Imagineering works with the pastry team on building a new, animatronic-driven gingerbread house for Haunted Mansion Holiday each season. But despite Disneyland’s intense relationship with gingerbread, it’s not the only treat that’s nearly impossible to get.

The park also makes enormous, freshly hand-pulled candy canes on select dates. In order to secure one of the coveted candy canes, guests line up an hour before the park opens to be among the first to get in line at Candy Palace in Disneyland or Trolley Treats in Disney California Adventure. If they’re lucky enough to secure a spot, they’ll get a wristband with a return time to come back and pick up the $23.99 confection. There’s no other way to purchase one except to hope for some holiday magic sometimes, the candy shops have a few extra that can be purchased as walk-ups.


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