Wednesday, November 19, 2025

REVIEW: Dinner With Santa Claus at The Cake Bake Store in Disney World



There are a lot of methods to satisfy Santa Claus in Disney World, however there’s one particularly particular manner!

Santa

Santa

Over at The Cake Bake Store on Disney’s BoardWalk, company have been having fun with the menu, the bakery, and the attractive ambiance for over a 12 months now. For the vacations, the restaurant is totally decked out, and so they’re internet hosting 4 totally different nights of Dinner With Santa Claus! We have been lucky to snag a very difficult-to-get reservation, and right here’s what we skilled.

Dinner With Santa Claus 

At Dinner With Santa Claus, diners can take pleasure in a three-course meal with glowing vacation champagne and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a most important entree, and a seasonal dessert. 

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

Additionally included in a reservation is a Disney PhotoPass {photograph} of the diners with Santa Claus…

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

…and a cookie within the form of Cake Bake’s vacation mascot — Bubbles the Bear. In actual fact, company will obtain a home made sugar cookie together with all of the elements essential to make a Santa-worthy cookie at house!

Photo: The Cake Bake Shop

Bubbles the Bear

Reservation Information

The dates for Dinner With Santa Claus are as follows, and all dates are presently waitlist solely. There are 4 dates out there in Disney World, and 6 dates out there at The Cake Bake Store’s Indiana location. 

Disney World’s dates are as follows:

• November 18
• November 25
• December 2
• December 9

The associated fee is $200 per grownup, which incorporates the next:

  • As much as Three Drinks — Further drinks can be found for buy
  • An Entrée of Your Selection
  • A Seasonal Dessert From The Cake Bake Store’s Menu
  • A Skilled Household Picture with Santa Claus — Digital obtain by way of Disney PhotoPass
  • A Present to Take House

For teenagers ages 12 and below, the associated fee is $150 per baby, and it contains the next:

  • Any Drinks of Your Selection
  • An Entrée of Your Selection
  • A Seasonal Dessert From The Cake Bake Store’s Menu
  • A Skilled Household Picture with Santa Claus — Digital obtain by way of Disney PhotoPass
  • A Present to Take House

Menu

Dinner With Santa Claus

Picture: The Cake Bake Store

Adults can select as much as three drinks out of a collection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, a charcuterie hors d’oeuvre, and entree decisions of Roasted Rooster, Beef Bourguignon, and Roasted Leek Pasta.

Dinner With Santa Claus

Picture: The Cake Bake Store

Children get 4 totally different drink choices to select from, Grilled Cheese Bites hors d’oeuvres, and entree decisions of Selfmade Rooster Tenders, Cavatappi & Cheese, and Cheeseburger Sliders. 

Dinner With Santa Claus

Picture: The Cake Bake Store

For each youngsters and adults, dessert is chosen from the seasonal dessert menu, which contains Coconut Cake, Peppermint Sweet Cane Chocolate Cake, Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Bar, and the Bubbles Gingerbread Bear. 

Seasonal Menu

Seasonal Menu

Environment

We’ve already proven you a number of the vacation decor, and nobody does it like The Cake Bake Store!

The Cake Bake Store is particularly stunning through the holidays.

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

Attractive.

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

Our Expertise

The eye to element this night was impeccable. Gwendolyn Rogers, the proprietor of The Cake Bake Store, truly visited every desk to greet diners.

The employees was beautiful and attentive, and we didn’t really feel rushed by way of our meal. 

Elyssa and Gwendolyn Rogers

Elyssa and Gwendolyn Rogers

Each desk obtained a souvenir menu, together with pixie mud on the desk. And try that attractive place setting!

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

Company additionally obtained a “letter” to Santa that they will fill out and hand to the “precise” Santa Claus!

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

Smooth Christmas music was taking part in, and we observed that many company obtained dressed up for this occasion, identical to they’d for a vacation social gathering. 

Adults can select as much as three drinks (out of 11 totally different alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink choices), and we began with the Gingerbread Martini and the Outdated Long-established.

Gingerbread Martini

Gingerbread Martini

The Gingerbread Martini so festive! It was mild with a refined however flavorful gingerbread style, and the Bubbles the Bear in gingerbread type was a pleasant contact. 

Gingerbread Martini

Gingerbread Martini

The Outdated Long-established was a really elevated model of the traditional drink, as they cooked out the easy sugar with champagne. It had a pleasant bourbon taste, accompanied by a rose-shaped ice dice and a rose-accented toothpick with a cherry on the top.

Old Fashioned

Outdated Long-established

It was easy and never too robust, with a pleasant kick to it. Bourbon lovers would actually take pleasure in this!

Old Fashioned

Outdated Long-established

The Winter Sangria was SO festive and scrumptious! It was refreshing and lightweight with a pleasant stage of sophistication to it. 

Winter Sangria

Winter Sangria

For the hors d’oeurvres, adults are served a shared charcuterie board.

Ours got here with a wide range of specialty meats and cheese, together with Genoa salami, soppressata, Parmesan, goat cheese, pickles, olives, olive oil, nuts, grapes, crostini, and an unimaginable jalapeno jelly (that was so good we had to purchase a jar of it)!

Charcuterie Board

Charcuterie Board

For one entree, we ordered the Beef Bourguignon, which got here with braised beef in Cotes Du Rhône, carrots, pear onions, and applewood smoked bacon. It was served over Yukon gold whipped potatoes with asparagus spears.

Beef Bourguignon

Beef Bourguignon

The meat was cooked completely, and it blended so nicely with all of the greens. The potatoes took this dish to a different stage! The sauce accented all of the flavors fantastically, and total, it was hearty and filling in the easiest way potential. 

Beef Bourguignon

Beef Bourguignon

Our different entree was the Roasted Leek Pasta, which comes with fettuccini pasta in a cream sauce of roasted leeks, mushrooms, garlic, and Parmesan cheese. It was additionally served with a freshly toasted half French baguette and salted European butter.

Roasted Leek Pasta

Roasted Leek Pasta

The pasta was DELICIOUS and actually a plate of pure consolation meals. The pasta itself was cooked to perfection, and the sauce was hearty and creamy. We might eat this daily!

Roasted Leek Pasta

Roasted Leek Pasta

For dessert, we chosen the Peppermint Sweet Cane Chocolate Cake, made with Valrhona French Chocolate Cake and stuffed with Callevaut Belgium Chocolate Ganache. It was topped with peppermint buttercream and a sweet cane.

Although we aren’t enormous followers of chocolate cake, this dessert was scrumptious!

Peppermint Candy Cane Cake

Peppermint Sweet Cane Chocolate Cake

We have been additionally capable of choose the Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie, which is an everyday menu merchandise, made with peanut butter mousse, Callebaut Belgian chocolate cookie crust, Callebaut Belgian chocolate ganache, and chopped peanuts.

Dessert

Dessert

Servers introduced a cart of merchandise to the desk after our meal, so you are able to do some buying proper out of your desk! 

Merchandise Cart

Merchandise Cart

Santa Claus was fantastic, and he even got here round to everybody’s tables.

And right here’s how our PhotoPass picture with Santa turned out! Word that PhotoPass photographers have been out there all through the evening, so when you’ve bought Disney PhotoPass, you’ll have entry to those photographs. 

Dinner With Santa Claus

Dinner With Santa Claus

The take-home reward was ADORABLE! It included a Bubbles the Bear sugar cookie and adorning equipment.

Dinner With Santa Claus Present

Total, our photographs don’t do that occasion justice. This was a really particular expertise, clearly crafted with excessive consideration to element and white glove service.

Whereas it was expensive, we discovered it price each penny and a magical approach to kick off the vacation season. We might undoubtedly come again subsequent 12 months!

The Cake Bake Shop

The Cake Bake Store

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