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.
A favorite part of the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays is the Holiday Cookie Stroll. Let’s take a tour of the park as we try all the treats available along the way.
Once you’ve eaten at least five cookies on the stroll and collected their respective stamps, bring your Festival Passport back to Holiday Sweets & Treats near Port of Entry to receive your completion prize.
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Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow – CommuniCore Hall
*NEW* Prototype Cookie – $4.75
Sugar cookie with orange-cranberry icing and dark chocolate
The cookie is nice and soft, and we like the idea of icing on the bottom and top with a great presentation. The dark chocolate the most prevalent flavor, but there is a nice hint of the orange and cranberry. Overall, a decent cookie that we would get again.
Rating out of 7: 5
*NEW* Ginger-Molasses Cookie – $3.50
With cream cheese icing
This is an extremely soft cookie. The cream cheese is very good, and it reminds us of the carrot cake cookie at Hollywood Studios. All of the spices melded together to create a fresh, delicious cookie.
Rating out of 7: 7
Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie – $5.50
For the price, this isn’t bad, but you would buy it more for the novelty of eating a Spaceship Earth-shaped cookie more than anything else. The salted caramel filling was good, but the cookie itself was kind of dry. The glitter sprinkles got everywhere, and the caramel will stick in your teeth.
Rating out of 7: 3
Nochebuena Cocina
Cinnamon-Spiced Chocolate Crinkle Cookie – $3.50
It tastes storebought. It’s soft-ish with a basic chocolate flavor and a little sweetness from the icing.
Rating out of 7: 3
Yukon Holiday Kitchen
*NEW* Maple Leaf Shortbread Cookie – $4
with maple buttercream
This cookie was soft and definitely maple. However, the sugar texture and flavor was overpowering. Although the cookie was soft, it was slightly dry.
Rating out of 7: 3
L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen
Rugelach – $4.25
Pastry with raspberry jam, walnuts, and cinnamon
A traditional Rugelach uses a flaky pastry dough, making it a crunchy, sweet treat. Unfortunately, the ones served at this Holiday Kitchen use a very dense, thick dough, making them non-traditional and also not very good. The walnut-raspberry filling was just okay, and we needed way more to balance out the thick dough. Overall, this wasn’t that great, and we’d recommend skipping this item.
Rating out of 7: 2
*NEW* Mickey-Shaped Almond Black and White Cookie – $4
We have had this cookie many times in the past. This is its first year in a Mickey shape, and we were disappointed. The cookie itself is not good and tastes prepackaged. The icing was also not very flavorful. There are better cookies in the Cookie Stroll.
Rating out of 7: 1
American Holiday Table
*NEW* Chocolate Cookie – $3.75
featuring SNICKERS bar pieces and salted caramel
This was a very soft and chewy cookie which is odd because it was also slightly stale. It is a simple chocolate cookie with Snickers pieces.
Rating out of 7: 3
Bavaria Holiday Kitchen
Hazelnut Linzer Cookie – $3.75
With raspberry jam
It was strangely reminiscent of an Uncrustable. It’s an average cookie but when you want a traditional Christmas cookie (not of the sugar frosted variety), this is a good choice. It’s one of the best cookies on the stroll.
Rating out of 7: 6
Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen
Coffee Mocha Cookie – $3.75
topped with coffee-infused buttercream, cocoa nibs, and chocolate-covered espresso beans
Our cookie tasted fresh but also sported a chalky texture. The buttercream was also not quite right, which we theorized was due to the coffee. Overall, this is a strange cookie that only got worse as we continued to eat it.
Rating out of 7: 3
Holiday Hearth Desserts
*NEW* Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookie (Plant-based) – $3.50
The cookie is extremely hard and tastes mostly like cardboard. We can appreciate it being a plant-based option, but this pairs barely-there flavor with lots of glitter.
Rating out of 7: 2
Connections Café – World Discovery
Holiday Sugar Cookie – $4.79
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
Sunshine Seasons
Peanut Butter Cookie – $4.79
featuring M&M’S Minis Milk Chocolate Candies Holiday Blend
This reminded us visually of the Peanut Butter Cookie from the Main Street Confectionery, which we love. This is super soft, and the whipped topping is delicious. The cookie, unfortunately, was terribly stale and dry, and the peanut butter flavor was weak.
Rating out of 7: 1
Completer Prize
You claim your cookie stroll completer prize at Holiday Sweets & Treats in World Showcase Plaza. This year’s prize is a spatula plus a recipe card and M&M’s minis.
The spatula is icy blue silicone printed with a Mickey cookie and the text “Holiday Cookie Stroll 2025,” accented with a small Spaceship Earth cookie. The handle is embossed with the Epcot logo. The spatula also comes with a tube of holiday M&M’s Minis and a recipe card for peanut butter cookies.
The 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays runs from November 28 to December 30, 2025. Check out our full guide to this year’s festival.
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