An iconic Disney movie is turning 30 this year, and Disney World is ready to celebrate!
Animal Kingdom’s Tree of Life
The Lion King is one of the most iconic Disney movies, and this June marks 30 years since it first appeared on the big screen. This is a BIG birthday, so Disney is celebrating with a few fun, new treats over at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. You won’t want to miss these!
These treats will be available starting June 10th and will still be up for grabs as late as September 9th. That gives you three months to snag these treats! Let’s talk about them!
Eight Spoon Café will be featuring The Simba. This is a refreshing mango-flavored slushy that’s combined with grenadine and topped with two gummy candies. Over at Isle of Java, you can get Timon’s Luau, a layered dessert with vanilla chiffon, passion fruit curd, guava jam, vanilla chantilly cream, an edible tropical flower for the lei, and mint for the hula skirt.
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At Tiffin’s Restaurant, you can get the Rafiki’s Squash Banana, which is a shake blended with squash bananas, baobab fruit, vanilla, cinnamon, and cardamom. Yum! Also, the “Remember Who You Are” The Lion King 30th Anniversary Dessert is a Kenyan coffee mousse is filled with caramelized bananas, chai chantilly, banana-caramel sauce, chocolate-coffee crumble, chocolate decoration, and sugar sun.
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Tamu Tamu Refreshments will be home to the Zazu Ice Cream Sandwich. This sandwiches vanilla ice cream between two blue cake-coated sugar cookies with a chocolate medallion on top. Harambe Market will be home to the You Follow Old Rafiki Cheesecake. This passion fruit-mango cheesecake has a coconut-lime crust, vanilla bean chantilly, and a chocolate medallion to finish it off.
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Restaurantosaurus will feature the Shenzi Strawberry Lemonade which combines Minute Maid Premium Lemonade, Minute Maid Strawberry Smoothie, and blue curaçao syrup served with a souvenir glow cube.
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The Rightful Ruler Cupcake, which is available both here and at Pizzafari, draws inspiration from Scar himself. It’s a red velvet cake with cookies ‘n cream cheesecake filling and chocolate icing topped with a chocolate medallion on chocolate rocks.
Trilo-bites will be serving up the Zazu DOLE Whip Lime and Coconut Float, which deliciously swirls DOLE Whip Lime into Sprite with coconut and blue curaçao syrup. It’s then topped with a white chocolate medallion.
Last but certainly not least, you can snag the Simba Paw Cookie at the outdoor snack carts around the park!
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Wow! We are SO excited to try all these new treats. We hope they taste as good as they look! We’ll be sure to keep you updated with more Disney news, so make sure to follow along so that you’re always in the loop and never miss a thing.
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