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

In the case of theme park haunts, nobody does it like Common Orlando Resort. The theme park complicated throws one of many largest and scariest Halloween occasions of the season: Halloween Horror Nights. And this yr, the occasion runs on 48 choose nights via November 3. The thirty third Halloween Horror Nights season brings 10 new haunted homes, 5 scare zones, a dwell present, and, in fact, nice candy and savory snacks which are 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 flicks or exhibits to reinforce the general storytelling via our meals and beverage choices. It’s a enjoyable occasion, so we get to have enjoyable with it and never take ourselves too critically all whereas nonetheless delivering on presentation and taste,” says Chef Jens Dahlmann, vice chairman and govt chef of operations at Common Orlando Resort. 

With meals choices scattered across the park, it is arduous to strive it multi functional evening. Fortunately, Common gives a Frequent Worry Cross so you possibly can see all the homes many times, plus get your fill of a number of the finest treats created by the meals and beverage staff 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 sizzling canine on the within, battered and dusted with Cheetos mud. When our visitors 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 Dying Chill, which has a mint-cheesecake filling coated with Bugles and edible glitter. 

One of the crucial 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 complete staff in our manufacturing kitchen and bakery producing 1000’s of them each day, simply to maintain up with demand,” explains Dahlmann.

Earlier than being served to visitors, the marshmallow is charred to perfection, so you possibly can nonetheless see all the 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 possibly can strive the Summer season Camp Sizzling Canine, which is a Nathan’s sizzling 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 model. And don’t skip the Sinema Popcorn, which is flavored like Flamin’ Sizzling 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 purple door. The foods and drinks staff on the park has turned that door right into a snack known as The Crimson Door, which is a potato and onion-filled hand pie with purple pastry. The savory filling and carb-loaded snack will assist to maintain you going from home to deal with till the late hours of the evening. 

For one thing a little bit extra filling, strive the Bloody Goody Bag from the Triplets of Terror sales space. The bag is stuffed 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. Should 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 stuffed 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, this may cool you down and offer you a sugar rush. 

It’s not Halloween Horror Nights with out these snacks

One of the crucial 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 might be topped along 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 appears like. Golden French fries topped with cheese and different pizza toppings like pepperoni. This yr, Traditional Pizza Fries and Vegan Pizza Fries might be discovered at DreamWorks Creativeness Cafe. 

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