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Disneyland Resort guests looking to stock up on their favorite holiday treats will have to make do with a few per guest this year, or get creative like some have done.
The Mickey Mouse-shaped gingerbread cookies currently sell for $7.49 each, but are limited to “five per person per transaction,” according to online menus for the park’s restaurants, including the Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe and the Market House.
“It’s literally Christmas in a cookie,” said park patron Tiffany Calderon. told SFGATE. She said her family visits Disneyland three times a year, making it their mission to collect 20 Mickey gingerbreads during the holidays to freeze at home and eat all year long. “It feels like home,” she added. “Just snuggle up on a couch, watch Christmas movies, pull out a gingerbread cookie and just little bites, make it last. Make it linger.”
This year, however, Disneyland is trying to prevent hoarding — not only by capping the amount people can buy at one time, but also by occasionally pausing mobile sales to prevent items from selling out.
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The Mickey Gingerbread cookie is described as “soft” in a 2023 Disney Food Blog article and is decorated with icing. (DisneyFoodBlog.com/Fox News)
Some guests, however, roam the park to place orders for treats in several display cases – and even go to the Grand Californian Hotel, where they sell them for $10 a piece. According to the Disney Food Blog, the cookies are soft, shaped like Mickey Mouse and glazed.
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General views of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, dressed up for the holidays on December 3, 2022 in Anaheim, California. (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images / Getty Images)
Many say they don’t just like the taste of the snack, noting that it also has sentimental value.
“That’s how Christmas started,” Jennifer Walker told SFGATE, remembering how she and her parents “would do things.” Vacation visit to Disneyland, and they would serve this specific cookie.
Walker said she collected 24 cookies during her last visit to “the happiest place on earth,” with a total of 35 this year. But they are not all for her.
“One of them went to my parents’ grave,” she told SFGATE. “So my mom always gets her gingerbread Mickey.”
Poison Apple Macaron at the Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe during Halloweentime at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. The cafe is known for its holiday treats, including the Mickey Gingerbread. (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Images)
She handed out others as work gifts.
“It turned out my coworker had the same tradition with her mother,” Walker said. “Christmas started when they would have their Mickey gingerbread. So when I had it on her desk, she literally cried because she wasn’t going to make it this year. She was like, ‘Oh my God, you will help me.’ we keep a Christmas tradition.'”
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Gingerbread is big business at Disney Parks, and not just in edible form. There are many products featuring this festive treat, such as clothing and gingerbread popcorn buckets, which can also be found nationwide at Walt Disney World in Orlando, for those who have luck.
Disneyland did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox Business.