Yet another week of fun Disney meals! This week we watched one of my favorite movies as a kid- Melody Time!

Melody Time is yet another compilation of short animations set to music. This one might be my favorite of the bunch- so many classics! There’s a lot of fun shorter songs; Bumble Boogie and Blame It On The Samba were always a couple of my favorites. And then you have a couple classic tall tales thrown in there as well- Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill. All in all, so many fun songs and great stories!

Which of course, means it's hard to narrow down what to eat! I decided to really just focus on the two most story-like songs: Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill. I did throw in some hot chocolate as well because of the cute little ice skating song at the very beginning. It seemed like the right thing to do ;).

With Johnny Appleseed, of course we had to do some things with apples! During one of the songs, they talk about all the things you can make with apples, which gives you lots of things to work with! I wanted to try something new, and so I decided to make apple dumplings! Something I’ve never made, or even eaten before! I looked at a few different recipes and settled on one that seemed promising.

It was GOOD. I think my apples were a little too big (I use grocery pickup and they gave me some VERY big green apples) because the crust didn’t quite cover my apples. They didn’t turn out the prettiest, but everyone LOVED them! My husband couldn’t get enough! We ate them too fast and I totally forgot to take a picture- so you’ll just have to take my word for it that they are worth trying! I’ve included the recipe at the end of the article. My mother-in-law also brought an apple crumb pie, so we definitely got to enjoy the goodness of apples that Johnny sings about!

For Pecos Bill, I focused on cowboy food. We had a big bucket of fried chicken, biscuits and homemade baked beans. With all the tasty food we had going on, I did a terrible job of taking pictures, so all I got were some of my husband’s leftovers the next day ;).

There’s also some breakfast of bacon and eggs shown at the very beginning of Pecos Bill’s story, so we made some of that as well! And in honor of Pecos Bill’s horse, Widowmaker, I cooked up some spaghetti squash (so we could have some veggies at the table) and we called it bales of hay :).

I also made these cute horse cupcakes! I knew we didn’t need them with the apple desserts, but Disney night is my excuse to try all kinds of fun things- I don’t limit myself ;). All you need is Nutter Butters, candy eyes, decorating gels and halved peanuts. Easy but so cute!

With all the other baking going on, I just used a boxed cake mix, but I threw in some butterfinger pieces to make them a little more special. I thought the horses turned out so cute!! And of course my kids loved them :).

Overall I’d say it was another successful Disney night! My kids have asked to watch Melody Time over and over again, so I’d say it was definitely one of their favorites!

I’ve included the recipes for the apple dumplings and the baked beans down below. I hope you enjoy!



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