Swirled Showcase is new to the Festival game. She made her debut at the Food and Wine Festival, and brought her A-game to the Festival of the Holidays, and charmed up during Festival of the Arts… but can she hold her own in EPCOT’s prettiest festival?

Join us as we review Swirled Showcase to see if it lives up to its reputation as a deserving booth to visit during this Fest to compete for your time, attention, money, and stomach real estate!

Menu

At Swirled Showcase, practically everything is new because the booth is new to this Festival!

This booth is full of new items, and we can’t wait to try everything!

Are you ready to dig in? Our reporter went back FOUR TIMES to grab all of these new items so that we could try them all without them melting. Let’s hope they’re worth the extra steps!

Eats

First up, we’re grabbing what might be the headliner of this booth, the Liquid Nitro Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake. This Fro-Zone style chilled cheesecake comes with fresh honey, granulated honey, honey mead blueberry compote Presented by National Honey Board. You can get it for $5.25.

The first thing we noticed about this dish was the fact that it had a really interesting crystalized thing going on up top. Like, a crystalized sugar coating! Underneath that, there was the cheesecake, and then at the bottom, you have a thicker bit of cheesecake that also sort of feels crystalized. We LOVE this dish because of all of those flavors and textures.

Over at Swirled Showcase, you can find a number of treats including, this Liquid Nitro Honey-Mascarpone Cheesecake!

It's made with fresh honey, granulated honey, honey mead blueberry compote Presented by National Honey Board! 🍯 pic.twitter.com/AhQSH1BoHW

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Next up, a comfort food classic, the Ice Cream Float for $6.75. This is perfect for a hot day or if you just wanna reminisce about the days of Sock Hops, Sadie Hawkins Dances, and saddle shoes. The Ice Cream Float is Vanilla Soft-serve and Barq’s Red Creme Soda.

Trying this float was a surreal experience. It was everything you could want in an ice cream float. The vanilla and cream soda combination elevated the float to become the epitome of frozen deliciousness. Plus, you can sip it OR eat it with a spoon. It’s PHENOMENAL. Oh my goodness. Best of the fest.

Looking for something fruity and refreshing and delightfully dairy-free? Then try the Strawberry Basil Sorbet for $12.50.

This tastes like someone melted down a popsicle at one of the outdoor vending carts and served it as an ice cream. It’s delicious, refreshing, and a winner if you love strawberry. We think that lots of folks could enjoy this one.

Okay. For our next two items, we’re calling all the PB&J lovers out there! Swirled Showcase specializes in soft-serve ice cream, and at this festival, there are THREE to choose from: Vanilla, Peanut Butter, and Grape Jelly. Grab your favorite, or be daring and get two of them swirled! Since we pretty much think peanut butter goes with anything, we love the idea of a PB&J swirl, and would never turn down a PB&Vanilla swirl! You can grab them each for $6.50.

We tried the Peanut Butter one, and all we have to say is that if you’re a peanut butter fan, you NEED to get this. It’s like licking cold peanut butter from a spoon. It’s so creamy, and delicious, and peanut buttery. We totally wanna try this swirled with the grape jelly one!

And we also tried the Grape Jelly one! It’s DELICIOUS. It was packed with flavor and had a bit of a tartness to it. We absolutely loved it.

And to go along with your dishes…

Drinks

You thought we were done, didn’t you? Oh, no! We still need to try all of these tasty libations!

We’re starting out with the Vanilla Soft-serve with Cantaloupe Liqueur. It’s a float and a cocktail and you can grab it for just $12.50.

This tastes a LOT like the ice cream martini in the France Pavilion. It’s cantaloupe liqueur and vanilla ice cream. It’s actually quite yummy. The flavors work well together, but we felt that it was a bit lazy. It’s just liquor and ice cream. Disney could have definitely taken this one up a notch, but it was refreshing overall.

If floats aren’t your thing, you can also get the Boulevard Brewing Co. Quirk Strawberry Banana Whip Hard Seltzer for $12. This is a carry-over from Festival of the Arts. This drink is gorgeous, and the strawberry and banana flavors are well-balanced. It’s a light, fruity drink that’s good for a hot day. It’s not too sweet (if you’re looking for a super sweet drink, this won’t satisfy you), but the fruit flavor is fairly strong.

We also had the Strawberry Basil Sorbet with Hard Seltzer.

If you’re looking for a dairy-free float option with a little maturity to it, this might just be for you! You can grab this treat for $12. It’s fine. It’s the seltzer version of the melted down fruit bar we mentioned earlier. Nothing to write home about, but still a solid option if you love strawberry!

OVERALL

All in all, this is a GREAT option if you love ice cream and all things SWEET. Everything we had here was super refreshing, super light, and we’d recommend that you try everything here. We really hope this booth sticks around, as the ice cream options are perfect for those super warm days in late spring!

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