When it comes to sweet treats, you never have to look far when you’re at Walt Disney World Resort. DOLE Whips, ice cream sundaes, and Mickey ice cream bars are abundant in ice cream shops in practically every corner of the property. Let this be your guide to tantalizing ice cream treats on your next Disney World vacation.

Magic Kingdom Park

Aloha Isle – Adventure Land

Located beside Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, Aloha Isle is best known for serving the iconic DOLE Whips. More specifically, this location serves traditional pineapple DOLE Whip.

Featured Items:

• DOLE Whip Pineapple juice float
• Pineapple upside-down cake (with DOLE Whip)
• Soft-serve DOLE Whip in pineapple, vanilla, or a swirl of the two

Auntie Gravity’s Galactic Goodies – Tomorrowland

Auntie Gravity’s is a galactic ice cream parlor in Tomorrowland. This location primarily has soft-serve ice cream, floats, shakes, and even churros.

Featured Items:

• Brownie sundae
• Ice cream floats
• Soft-serve vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel, or swirl

Plaza Ice Cream Parlor – Main Street U.S.A.

In the same Victorian design style as its adjoining Plaza Restaurant, this is an ice cream parlor aesthetically rooted in the past. Plaza Ice Cream Parlor has rotating signature items, including exclusives for different holidays. The parlor serves hand-scooped ice cream in a range of flavors as well as sundaes, shakes, and floats.

Featured Items:

• All-American sundae – with vanilla and chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, peanut butter drizzle, whipped cream, and a cherry
• Brownie sundae
• The Plaza ice cream sundae – with your choice of two scoops of ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry in a freshly made waffle bowl

Storybook Treats – Fantasyland

Storybook Treats is a princess-themed ice cream spot in Fantasyland. It doesn’t have as many options as some of the other locations; however, it does have creative featured offerings.

Featured Items:

• Aurora cone – with strawberry DOLE whip and blue soft-serve topped with white chocolate crisp pearls in a sugar cone
• Rapunzel sundae – which includes shortcake topped with lemon DOLE Whip and wild berry soft-serve, garnished with berry compote, whipped cream, and sugar flowers

Sunshine Tree Terrace – Adventureland

Home of the iconic Orange Bird, Sunshine Tree Terrace is Adventureland’s other DOLE Whip locale. But instead of specializing in traditional pineapple DOLE Whip, this spot is more citrussy with orange inclusions instead.

Featured Items:

• DOLE Whip soft-serve in orange and strawberry
• I Lava You Float – DOLE Whip orange with Fanta strawberry and red passion fruit syrup, garnished with popping candy

EPCOT

Gelateria Toscana – Italy Pavilion

More dense than traditional ice cream, enjoy authentic gelato or sorbetto (gelati e sorbetti) at the Italy Pavilion in Gelateria Toscana. In addition to frozen treats, the gelateria also serves cocktails, alcoholic floats and smoothies, and beer and wine.

Featured Items:

• Affogato al cioccolato – housemade hot chocolate over vanilla gelato, whipped cream, and a pisselle cookie
• Affogato espresso gelato – Italian espresso over vanilla gelato with amaretto cookies
• Coppa Del Nonno – vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and amaretto cookies.
• Zeppole sundae – zeppole with vanilla gelato and whipped cream

L’Artisan des Glaces – France Pavilion

This artisanal French shop in the France Pavilion serves ice cream and sorbet, but its featured items make it stand apart. That’s because its Croque Glacé sandwich made with brioche is unlike any ice cream sandwich you’ll get elsewhere at Disney World.

Featured Items:

• Café glacé – an iced cappuccino with a scoop of ice cream and whipped cream
• Croque Glacé – one scoop with a choice of sauce in a housemade brioche and pressed warm
• Coupe du dimanche – two scoops in a housemade waffle bowl, whipped cream, and a choice of sauce
• Macaron – ice cream sandwich made with a chocolate or seasonal macaron

Refreshment Outpost

While the Equatorial Africa Pavilion was never built, Refreshment Outpost is in its place. This snack stand has far fewer ice cream options than others on this list; however, it still should be included as it serves DOLE Whip.

Featured Items:

• DOLE Whip in a waffle cone – pineapple, watermelon, or swirl

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Dinosaur Gertie’s Ice Cream of Extinction – Echo Lake

Dinosaur Gertie’s is arguably the most iconic ice cream shop at Disney World because it is housed inside Gertie’s body. Here is where you can get some good old-fashioned soft-serve as well as Mickey ice cream bars. Sometimes there are seasonal goodies too, like the Gertie Cookie at Disney’s Jollywood Nights.

Featured Items:

• Mickey ice cream bar
• Soft-serve – in a cup or waffle cone

Hollywood Scoops – Sunset Boulevard

Hand-scooped ice cream, sundaes, and floats are all available at Hollywood Scoops. This spot is known for specialty beverages and desserts, piled high with toppings, even with things like a chocolate bacon milk shake.

Featured Items:

• Chocolate bourbon milk shake – chocolate milk shake with Jim Beam red stag black cherry bourbon, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and candied bacon
• Ice Cream Sundae – old-fashioned vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry
• Mickey brownie sundae – housemade Mickey-shaped brownie topped with old-fashioned vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, sprinkles, and a cherry

Ice Cold Hydraulics – Grand Avenue

Ice Cold Hydraulics is a snack stand that also happens to serve pre-made ice cream treats. In addition to some classic favorites, it also sells mini churros, Mickey-shaped pretzels, and candy painted cinnamon rolls, among other eats.

Featured Items:

• Hand-dipped Mickey’s Premium Ice Cream Bar with Sprinkles
• Mickey’s Premium Ice Cream Sandwich

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Anandapur Ice Cream Truck – Asia

The Anandapur Ice Cream Truck, covered in vivid murals, is an eye-catching part of the Asia section of Animal Kindom. This location has a few ice cream options for when you need to cool down from the hot Florida sun.

Featured Items:

• Floats
• Hand-dipped Mickey’s Premium Ice Cream Bar – with SKITTLES POP’d original freeze-dried candy
• Soft-serve waffle cone – chocolate, vanilla, or twist
• Yeti Sundae – chocolate soft-serve topped with vanilla soft-serve, blue cake crumbs, sugar, sweet snowflakes, and a chocolate Yeti image

Tamu Tamu Refreshments – Africa

Tamu Tamu is the go-to spot for DOLE Whip when you’re in Animal Kingdom—specifically DOLE Whip pineapple. You can even enjoy the creamy treat with different kinds of liquor if you’re in the mood for an alcoholic libation.

Featured Items:

• DOLE Whip pineapple cup
• DOLE Whip pineapple orange soda, or juice float
• Pineapple Crisp Sundae
• Sangria DOLE Whip float

Disney Springs


Affogato Stand – Marketplace

Owned and operated by Vivoli il Gelato, this affogato stand has a petite menu for guests in the Marketplace area to enjoy without trekking over to the Landing Vivoli location. They have also carried cornetto and biscotti.

Featured Items:

• Cream custard
• Double chocolate
• Pistachio
• Seasonal

Ghirardelli® Ice Cream & Chocolate Shop – Marketplace

Ghirardelli is known around the world for its chocolate, and this chocolate shop has no shortage of that, but also serves up a variety of ice creams as well. When that hot cocoa craving hits, you can also grab one of those here, too, or espresso beverages.

Featured Items:

• Frozen hot cocoa – hot cocoa mix blended with milk and ice, topped with whipped cream and mini dark chocolate chips
• Gold Rush Caramel Almond Sundae – vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce, sea salt, and diced almonds, topped with whipped cream and a white chocolate caramel square
• Key Lime Pie Shake – vanilla ice cream blended with Key lime juice, vanilla sauce, and graham crackers, garnished with whipped cream, green sprinkles, and crushed graham crackers
• World Famous Hot Fudge Sundae – vanilla ice cream and handmade hot fudge topped with whipped cream, diced almonds, a cherry, and a milk chocolate caramel square

Häagen-Dazs® Kiosk – West Side

This Häagen-Dazs location has the assortment of flavors you’d expect from the brand, such as Dulce de Leche and Midnight Cookies & Cream. You can order dishes, sundaes, and cones, as well as smoothies, frappes, and shakes.

Featured Items:

• Assorted ice cream bars
• Dazzler Sundaes, including the Cookies and Cream Dazzler, which is layered with hot fudge and chocolate cookie pieces, topped with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles, and served with toppings.
• Frappe – coffee, dulce, mocha
• Shakes with toppings

Salt & Straw – West Side

With inventive seasonal flavors, Salt & Straw is a family-run parlor with a reputation for its small-batch ice creams. There are some classic flavors such as Double Fold Vanilla and Chocolate Gooey Brownie, as well as flavors you may only see once or season by season, like Pineapple Upside Down Cake or Chewy Molasses Cookies with Rum Caramel.

Featured Items:

• Ice cream scoops in cups/cones
• Milkshakes
• Pints

Swirls on the Water – Marketplace

Swirls on the Water serves up DOLE Whip in classic ways as well as in sampler trios. With views of the lake, relax and enjoy some fruity DOLE Whip of soft-serve on the water with flavors that can change from time to time. There are often seasonal or limited-time offerings too, such as the Margarita Float or the Tropical Holiday Tree Sundae.

Featured Items:

• DOLE Whip pineapple
• DOLE Whip pineapple floats (with or without alcohol)
• Soft-serve – (can include) vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel, lime, coconut, lime-coconut, pomegranate, and chocolate-pomegranate

Vivoli il Gelato – The Landing

The story that began in Florence, Italy, in 1929 continues today at Disney Springs. At Vivoli il Gelato, enjoy artisanal gelato and sorbet flavors made by the still family-run operation. This location also serves specialty bakery items such as varieties of tiramisu, cannoli, bomboloni, and croissants.

Featured Items:

• Affogato (variety)
• Alcoholic gelato/sorbetto libations
• Build your own shake
• Cannoli Shake – cannoli gelato, chocolate sauce, dipped waffle cone, pistachios, and whipped cream

Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill – Town Center

Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill is a full-service restaurant; however, there is also a gelato bar available! There is even a walk-up window if you prefer to grab your gelato or sorbet to go. There is an assortment of flavors and toppings.

Featured Items:

• Gelato – choice of one, two, or three
• Sorbet – choice of one, two, or three

Resort Hotels

Beaches & Cream Soda Shop – Disney’s Beach Club Resort

Famed for its massive Kitchen Sink sundae, Beaches & Cream offers a smorgasbord of ice cream flavors, sundaes, and even diner foods like burgers for a full meal. There are even alcoholic milkshakes available!

Featured Items:

• Kitchen Sink – (serves four) with eight ice cream scoops of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, cookies ‘n cream, and mint chocolate chip topped with hot fudge, peanut butter, SNICKERS bits, a brownie, and garnished with every available topping; also available in Chocolate Lovers or Neapolitan
• No Way José – chocolate and vanilla ice cream with peanut butter, hot fudge, peanut butter and chocolate morsels, whipped cream, and a cherry
• S’mores Shake – Amarula cream liquor, Bols créme de cacao dark liqueur, and chocolate and vanilla ice cream topped with marshmallow, chocolate sauce, and graham crackers
• Stout Float – Guinness stout with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream

BoardWalk Ice Cream – Disney’s Boardwalk

This ice cream shop is in a good spot for guests meandering Disney’s turn-of-the-century style boardwalk area. It has its own set of unique sundaes as well as milk shakes, and non-ice cream vintage beverages such as an Egg Cream or Cherry Limeade.

Featured Items:

• Mickey Kitchen Sink Sundae – vanilla and chocolate ice cream topped with hot fudge, caramel, and marshmallow topping; an ice cream cookie sandwich; sprinkles, whipped cream, white and dark chocolate curl,s and a cherry; served in a souvenir Mickey kitchen sink
• Ride the Wave Sundae – three scoops with one topping
• Shoreside Sundae – three scoops of vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, marshmallow topping, and SNICKERS pieces topped with whipped cream, chopped peanuts, and a cherry
• Surf’s Up Sundae – two scoops with one topping

Pineapple Lanai – Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort

PIneapple Lanai

The Fountain – Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort

This retro-style eatery is a full-service, classic American diner with full meals as well as ice cream. The specialty here, however, is a series of unique milkshakes.

Featured Items:

• Banana Pudding milkshake – banana ice cream, vanilla pudding, whipped topping, Nilla wafers, and fresh banana
• Chocolate³ milkshake – chocolate ice cream, hot fudge, chocolate milk, chocolate icing, chocolate brownie, chocolate whipped topping, and a Hershey’s chocolate bar
• Key Lime Pie milkshake – Key lime ice cream, lime curd, graham cracker, crumble, slice of Key lime pie, whipped topping, and candied lime
• The King milkshake- peanut butter ice cream, toasted marshmallow fluff, chocolate whipped topping, banana, and Reese’s Cups

Water Parks

Happy Landings Ice Cream – Typhoon Lagoon

Guests spending time at Typhoon Lagoon don’t have to look far for their ice cream fix. Happy Landings has a few options, including pre-packed varieties such as an Outshine Strawberry Fruit Bar and Mickey’s Premium Ice Cream Sandwich.

Featured Items:

• Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae – vanilla soft-serve with a brownie, hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry
• Pineapple Upside-down Cone – DOLE Whip pineapple and vanilla soft-serve, caramel sauce, vanilla cake, caramelized pineapple, and a cherry served under a white chocolate-dipped cone
• Sand Pail Sundae – vanilla and chocolate swirl soft-serve, vanilla cake, cookies and cream crumbles, hot fudge, caramel sauce, whipped cream, M&Ms, and a cherry layered into an exclusive souvenir sand pail bucket
• Waffle cone – served with DOLE Whip pineapple, vanilla, chocolate, or swirl soft-serve

I.C. Expeditions – Blizzard Beach

I.C. Expeditions is housed in a building shaped like an arctic expedition vehicle. This ice cream spot at Blizzard Beach also has other tasty treats in addition to frozen desserts.

Featured Items:

• Sand Pail Sundae – vanilla and chocolate swirl soft-serve, vanilla cake, cookies and cream crumbles, hot fudge, caramel sauce, whipped cream, M&Ms, and a cherry layered into an exclusive souvenir sand pail bucket
• S’mores Churro – churro pieces topped with graham cracker crumbs, marshmallow whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and toasted mini marshmallows
• Strawberry Shortcake – vanilla cake, strawberry purée, and DOLE Whip strawberry and vanilla swirl topped with whipped cream and a cherry
• Waffle cone – vanilla, chocolate, DOLE Whip strawberry, or swirl soft-serve

Enjoying Ice Cream Days at Disney World

Visiting the Most Magical Place on Earth means snacks galore—and ice cream is one of the top snacking food groups. There are multiple ice cream locations to visit in practically every corner of Disney World, so it’s all a matter of choosing which has the unique option your sweet tooth is craving.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there ice cream at Disney World?

Yes! Many places serve ice cream at Disney World. Even the kiosk or cart locations that aren’t necessarily classified as “ice cream shops” may serve frozen Mickey ice cream bars or sandwiches.

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Where can I get soft-serve ice cream in Animal Kingdom?

Anandapur Ice Cream Truck serves soft-serve ice cream. However, if you are interested in soft-serve DOLE Whip you can also visit Tamu Tamu Refreshments.

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