What to Eat and Drink at Common Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights

In terms of theme park haunts, nobody does it like Common Orlando Resort. The theme park advanced throws one of many greatest and scariest Halloween occasions of the season: Halloween Horror Nights. And this yr, the occasion runs on 48 choose nights by November 3. The thirty third Halloween Horror Nights season brings 10 new haunted homes, 5 scare zones, a stay present, and, after all, nice candy and savory snacks which can be unique to the occasion. 

“Right here at Common Orlando Resort, we’re blessed to have the ability to work with some iconic franchises and IPs, and when ideating our choices for this yr’s Halloween Horror Nights, we took inspiration from the films or reveals to reinforce the general storytelling by our meals and beverage choices. It’s a enjoyable occasion, so we get to have enjoyable with it and never take ourselves too severely all whereas nonetheless delivering on presentation and taste,” says Chef Jens Dahlmann, vp and government chef of operations at Common Orlando Resort. 

With meals choices scattered across the park, it is onerous to strive it multi function evening. Fortunately, Common presents a Frequent Worry Move so you’ll be able to see the entire homes time and again, plus get your fill of among the finest treats created by the meals and beverage crew at Common Orlando. And don’t fear, there are many pop-up bars and drink stations round to get one thing to sip on out of a blinky cup too. 

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“To coincide with our Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire haunted home, we drew inspiration from Slimer’s love of Cheetos. From that, we created a Korean-style corn Canine, Slimer’s Korean Corn Canine, that has inexperienced sage derby cheese and a scorching canine on the within, battered and dusted with Cheetos mud. When our company chunk into it, they get an oozy inexperienced cheese pull and the style of Cheetos, making a multisensory expertise for them,” says Dahlmann. 

For a candy tackle a Korean corn canine, strive the Frozen Demise Chill, which has a mint-cheesecake filling coated with Bugles and edible glitter. 

One of the vital talked about treats this season is the Mini Keep-Puft S’extra from Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire close to Park Plaza Vacation Store. The traditional campfire deal with will get a made-for-the-movies makeover as an open-faced s’extra topped with chocolate and a marshmallow that appears just like the Keep-Puft Marshmallow Man. 

“We make the marshmallows from scratch and have a whole crew in our manufacturing kitchen and bakery producing 1000’s of them every day, simply to maintain up with demand,” explains Dahlmann.

Earlier than being served to company, the marshmallow is charred to perfection, so you’ll be able to nonetheless see the entire cute particulars, however is completely melty and crispy after biting in. 

Drive-in, movie-style snacks

Primarily based on summer season camp meals and drive-in film snacks, the meals sales space themed to the Slaughter Sinema 2 home has savory bites for each style. Right here, you’ll be able to strive the Summer time Camp Scorching Canine, which is a Nathan’s scorching canine that’s been deep fried, then topped with nacho cheese, baked beans, pepper relish, and crunched up Doritos. There’s additionally two strolling tacos, a savory-spicy ropa vieja or vegan chili fashion. And don’t skip the Sinema Popcorn, which is flavored like Flamin’ Scorching Cheetos. 

Extra savory snacks well worth the hype

One of many scariest homes at Halloween Horror Nights is Insidious: The Additional, which options an iconic crimson door. The foods and drinks crew on the park has turned that door right into a snack known as The Purple Door, which is a potato and onion-filled hand pie with crimson pastry. The savory filling and carb-loaded snack will assist to maintain you going from home to accommodate till the late hours of the evening. 

For one thing a bit of extra filling, strive the Bloody Goody Bag from the Triplets of Terror sales space. The bag is crammed with a mixture of crispy hen chunks, fries, onions, peppers and a creamy sauce tying all of it collectively. 

Candy bites to courageous the ‘Scare Zones’ for

The Bride’s Cake from Twilight Tavern close to Minion Cafe is one candy deal with you don’t want to overlook. The miniature three-tiered cake is made with vanilla cake layered with raspberry jam and lined In chocolate. In case you love chocolate and fruit flavors collectively, don’t skip this cake. 

One other sinister chocolate dessert that Horror Nights actually knocked out of the park is the Picket Board Eclair, which is themed to A Quiet Place within the New York part of the park. The pastry is crammed with a candy and spicy chocolate pastry cream and dipped in chocolate ganache. The eclair is then topped with a chocolate plank that has a woodgrain sample and an edible knife surrounded by a dollop of jelly within the center. 

Within the San Francisco space of the park, you’ll discover the Main Sweets Sweet Manufacturing unit sales space. Seize the Cyclops Cup, a frozen peanut buttercup topped with a sweet eyeball. On these heat Florida evenings, it will cool you down and provide you with a sugar rush. 

It’s not Halloween Horror Nights with out these snacks

One of the vital iconic snacks to ever come out of Halloween Horror Nights is the Twisted Tater. This yr, it may be discovered at Gramercy Park. The spiralized then fried potato on a stick may be topped together with your selection of seasoning: seasoning salt, garlic-parmesan, or bitter cream and chives. And let’s be trustworthy, all the pieces tastes higher when it’s on a stick and fried. 

The opposite returning snack that everybody raves about is Pizza Fries, that are precisely what it feels like. Golden French fries topped with cheese and different pizza toppings like pepperoni. This yr, Traditional Pizza Fries and Vegan Pizza Fries may be discovered at DreamWorks Creativeness Cafe. 

Appears like Halloween Horror Nights isn’t only for bounce scares anymore. It’s an actual culinary feast for ghouls and goblins alike.