As invited media, Disney provided WDWNT with a gift card for food and beverages for the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, so some of the following coverage was hosted. As always, WDWNT will still provide our honest thoughts on the below.

Another year of the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays means another year of strolling the park while devouring delicious cookies! To help you figure out which ones are worth your time (and which aren’t) we tasted each cookie available on the 2024 Holiday Cookie Stroll.

Of course, once you’ve eaten at least five cookies on the stroll, and collected your matching stamp for each cookie purchased, make sure to bring your Festival Passport back to Holiday Sweets & Treats to receive your completion treat.

*NEW* Spaceship Earth Tile Gingerbread Triangle – $10

Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow – CommuniCore Hall

This is the most expensive option on the Cookie Stroll.

It’s also the least edible. This was awful. Just terrible in every way. We’d rather eat one of the actual panels off Spaceship Earth. We can’t even justify it for the photo. Spare yourself.

Rating out of 7: 1

Hazelnut Linzer Cookie – $3.25

Bavaria Holiday Kitchen – Germany Pavilion

This is, by far, the best cookie of the stroll. It’s not even a fantastic cookie, but it’s a well-executed Christmas classic.

Rating out of 7: 6

SNICKERS-Doodle Cookie – $3.25

American Holiday Table – The American Adventure

The trend with the Holiday Cookie Stroll cookies is that they are dry. But this is by far the driest of them all. We get a little bit of the SNICKERS flavor, but not enough to make this cookie worth it.

Rating out of 7: 2

Black and White Cookie – $3.25

L’Chaim Holiday Kitchen – Between the Morocco and France Pavilions

This is a dense cookie that’s somehow still very dry. The base of the cookie is vanilla, with a thick frosting on top. In fact, the frosting was so thick, we had trouble getting the cookie off the plate. We can get better cookies at Publix, and we’d recommend skipping this cookie if you’re doing the cookie stroll. In fact, skip all of the desserts at this booth and stick to the savory dishes.

Rating out of 7: 2

Peppermint Pinwheel Cookie – $3.25

Yukon Holiday Kitchen – Canada Pavilion

This is a very thick cookie and is incredibly bland. We didn’t get any flavor of peppermint — we didn’t really get any flavor of anything! It’s basically just a tasteless sugar cookie. It’s pretty but not worth the money.

Rating out of 7: 1

*NEW* Coffee Mocha Cookie – $3.25

Topped with Coffee-infused Buttercream, Cocoa Nibs, and Chocolate-covered Espresso Beans

Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen – Between the Imagination! Pavilion and World Showcase

This had a lot of potential, and was one of the freshest cookies we had all day, but the coffee gave both the cookie and the buttercream a chalky texture. It got worse as we ate more of it.

Rating out of 7: 3

Cinnamon-spiced Chocolate Crinkle Cookie – $3.25

Nochebuena Cocina – Between the Imagination! Pavilion and World Showcase

This, at least, is edible. It’s a basic chocolate cookie and was mostly soft. It tastes like a cookie you’d get from the local supermarket bakery. Not Publix, though. Publix cookies are better than this.

Rating out of 7: 3

Holiday Sugar Cookie – $4.29

Connections Cafe – World Celebration

It’s your basic sugar cookie. It’s fun and soft. You get vanilla with a hint of cinnamon, and the sprinkles add a good crunch. (Though, to be honest, we hoped that at this price point, they would’ve used Mickey sprinkles instead of the plain red circles.) We’d compare it to a soft chocolate chip cookie minus the chips. It’s fine, but there are other options more worthy of your money.

Rating out of 7: 4

*NEW* Peanut Butter Cookie – $4.29

made with Red & Green M&M’S Milk Chocolate Minis

Sunshine Seasons – World Nature

This cookie looks appealing, even on the inside. It is, however, a cruel trick, as this is terrible. It’s stale and dry and barely tastes like peanut butter. The only redeeming factor is the whipped topping and there’s barely any.

Rating out of 7: 1

Completer Prize

Holiday Sweets & Treats – World Showcase Plaza

In the past, the prize has been another treat. Sometimes it’s a specialty cookie or sometimes it’s a milk shake or DOLE whip. This year, the prize is a cookie baking kit. It comes with 5 oz. of gingerbread cookie mix plus sprinkles and mini M&M’s to decorate with. It only requires water to turn the mix into dough.

Overall

The Holiday Cookie Stroll isn’t worth it this year. If you’re dead set on trying five cookies, then by all means, collect your stamps. Otherwise, you’re looking at spending at least $16.25 to get five mediocre-to-terrible quality cookies and a bag of mix to make your own mediocre cookie. You could get three delicious cookies from Summerhouse on the Lake for that price. You could buy enough baking supplies to make a few dozen cookies at home.

We can’t recommend this.

The 2024 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays is running from November 29 to December 30, 2024.

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Alicia