EPCOT Biergarten Restaurant Replaces Black Forest Cake With Trifle and Other Dessert Updates

Shannen Ace

A dessert buffet with layered parfaits, sliced cake, and various cupcakes on a countertop.

EPCOT Biergarten Restaurant Replaces Black Forest Cake With Trifle and Other Dessert Updates

Biergarten Restaurant in the Germany Pavilion of EPCOT has updated their dessert offerings, now offering a Black Forest Baumkuchen Trifle instead of a black forest cake.

Biergarten Restaurant Desserts

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Biergarten desserts in August 2021

For comparison, above is what the dessert bar previously looked like. From left to right, it offered the black forest cake, pretzel brownies, Bavarian cheesecake, cobbler, and pineapple. Apple strudel and chocolate chip cookies were also available. Below is the new array of desserts at Biergarten Restaurant.

A dessert buffet with layered parfaits, sliced cake, and various cupcakes on a countertop.
Biergarten desserts in December 2024

Pineapple remains but the other desserts have all been replaced. They come in cupcake-like sample sizes instead of cut pieces from a larger cake or brownie tray.

A sliced pastry topped with powdered sugar on a metallic tray, filled with fruit, possibly apple.

The Apple Strudel (Apfelstrudel) and kids’ chocolate chip cookies remain the same. The Apple Strudel is still cut as relatively large pieces from a full pie.

A bowl of creamy batter with a spoon inside, placed on a granite countertop near a tray of pastries.

Vanilla sauce (VanillesoBe) is also still available on the side. There used to be berry compote, too, but it’s gone.

A tray of nine dessert cups with whipped cream and chocolate decorations shaped like Disney ears on a countertop.

Replacing the black forest cake is Black Forest Baumkuchen Trifle (Schwarzwälder Baumkuchen-Trifle). Despite the name, it no longer resembles a Baumkuchen, which literally means “tree cake” because it looks like a log. The trifle instead comes in a verrine.

The dessert features layers of berry compote, sponge cake, and whipped cream. It’s topped with a Mickey-shaped chocolate piece in the colors of the German flag.

Next is the Bee Sting Cake (Bienestich). Traditionally, this cake is made of sweet yeast dough, caramelized almonds, and a filling of vanilla custard, buttercream, or cream. It comes in cupcake form with cream on top.

The Mini Sacher Cake (Mini-Sacher-Torte) is a chocolate cupcake with chocolate shavings on top.

Last is the Salted Caramel Cheesecake with pretzel crumbles and Werther’s Original Caramel.

What do you think of these dessert updates? Let us know in the comments or on social media.

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Biergarten Restaurant is an Oktoberfest-themed buffet offering a variety of German menu items. It’s $49 per adult and $28 per child (ages 3-9). It’s open from noon to 8 p.m. for lunch and dinner.

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4 thoughts on “EPCOT Biergarten Restaurant Replaces Black Forest Cake With Trifle and Other Dessert Updates”

  1. We were there last week and were disappointed they changed the deserts.. My favorite last year was the blueberry crumble/cobbler and they removed it! The new deserts are nothing unique from the other restaurants.

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  2. We were there last night. They have added potato pancakes to the side dishes and we really enjoyed them.
    The desserts were a HUGE disappointment. The bee sting was tasteless and the Black Forest was a joke. We asked to speak to the chef. She came out and we were told the new desserts were updates.
    These are cheap sad updates

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