Last time I spoke about Dole Whips I covered why they were so yummy and so magical. I left off asking if you really wanted to have a Dole Whip outside of the park.
KP enjoys a Dole Whip, while Andy tries out a Dole Whip Float in DL.
The answer, of course, should be no because it just lacks the magic. It just doesn’t taste as good!
But if the answers is yes (and both KP and I have said yes to that question before), then one of the ways to get your Dole Whip fix could be to try to make one yourself.
Now Dole Whips are actually just a dry mix that you can buy. All it takes it a bit of water, some way to chill it to the right consistency, and voila – Dole Whip goodness right at home. Of course, if you don’t have the cash to invest in the mix or the fancy machine to make Dole Whips this way, there is another option you can try.
Google.
Yes yes, sounds silly, doesn’t it? But a simple Google for Dole Whip recipes will give you a myriad of them.
About six months after our return from working in Disney, KP and I were jonesing for a good reminder of the place we love so much. So we got together and decided to make Dole Whips ourselves. We found a recipe that claimed to be just as good as the original, got the ingredients, and set about making it.
Andy and Cee putting the ingredients together for homemade Dole Whips.
We stood buy, our mouths drooling in anticipation while we watched my ice cream maker spin away. We could see that the soupy mixture we’d put into the machine was somewhat on the pale side (it was white), but we attributed it to no food colouring. After all, real Dole Whips can be varying shades of yellow… so what if ours happened to be white?
That should have been the first sign that something was terribly wrong.
What we ended up with was just a soupy mixture, with sugar that hadn’t dissolved, and tasted like milk. Not really a Dole Whip eh? Trust me, we followed the instructions exactly… there was even an entire tin of pineapple in it!
The idea of making your own Dole Whips at home is good in theory, and if you’re brave enough to try it then power to you. But heed our warning: it just doesn’t work.
Perhaps it was because we had a terrible recipe that it didn’t turn out. But a part of me can’t always help but wonder…. Was our Dole Whip adventure doomed to fail because we weren’t in Disney?
Hmm.
