Hey, friends! Salt & Straw is welcoming the change of seasons with a cozy new apple pie series of ice cream, now available in both Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort and Disney Springs at Walt Disney World. These scoops, featuring a few returning favorites, are the perfect way to transition into the cooler weather we’ve been waiting for, celebrating classic fall flavors while still keeping things fresh and fun. From traditional apple pie notes to a few unexpected twists you might not see coming, this new lineup is full of comforting favorites and surprising combinations you’ll definitely want to taste for yourself.
Apple Cider Donut
Imagine an afternoon spent apple picking. You grab a bag of warm apple cider donuts fresh from the farm stand, and lick the sugar from your fingertips. This recipe brings that fall festival vibes in ice cream form. Stripes of cinnamon-spiced vanilla caramel run thick through royal icing-inspired ice cream, dotted with hunks of sugar-and-spice, streusel-topped doughnuts for a pint you’ll be tempted to take home by the dozen.
Apple and Cheddar Cinnamon Rolls
Back by popular demand, it’s our apple-infused take on cinnamon rolls. Stuffed with gobs of rich, gooey cinnamon and spiced apple pie filling, the pillowy cinnamon roll dough is baked until soft and bursting with flavor. We dice up the sweet rolls and scatter them throughout a tangy Beecher’s Flagship Cheese ice cream. With its subtle sharpness, the ice cream evokes a classic cream cheese frosting oozing over the freshly baked bread. To tie it all together, more ooey-gooey cinnamon swirls throughout, creating a scoop that could only be made better with sips of apple cider between bites.
Vanilla Apple Custard Tart
Peak fall, made doubly decadent. We started with a French classic: Tarte Normande. Silky, rich custard layered with tart Granny Smith apples, all nestled into a housemade cinnamon shortbread crust. Baked until golden and gloriously jiggly, then folded, bite by bite, into a dense vanilla custard ice cream spiked with apple cider. Yes, that’s custard inside custard, wrapped in warm spices and unapologetically indulgent. Très extra.
Caramel Apple Sherbet
A fall festival staple, distilled into a scoopable delight. Our lightly burnt, vanilla-infused caramel develops a deep, complex flavor, ribboned throughout a simple, crisp apple sherbet. These dark brown ribbons are the perfect counterpart to the bright, clean sherbet created with pure apple puree. We don’t mess with the classics. We just do them our way.
Hoppy Apple Cider Sorbet (v)
A celebration of a single, fermented cider from Finnriver, the cidery leading the Pacific Northwest’s hard cider renaissance. Washington dessert apples, grown on Finnriver’s own eighty acres, are juiced, fermented to dry, then steeped with Cascade hops for up to three days, resulting in a crisp, refreshing cider layered with floral and citrus notes. We set out to capture its bright, grassy character in a scoop, churning gallons of the cider with sugar and amplifying it with additional Centennial and Amarillo hops. The result: an homage to the region’s annual apple and hop harvests—and one very special sorbet.
The only problem will be deciding which flavor to add to your next snack stop while enjoying a break from the Disney Parks. Which will you use to refuel on those frantic Disney days?
