Looking for the perfect way to celebrate Disney Mickey Mouse’s 90th Anniversary? I know just how with these delicious DOLE® Recipes!
If you follow me on social media or have ever been to my site before than you know I love me some Mickey Mouse! My family and I are Disney Vacation Club members and so we travel to Walt Disney World two to three times a year. A few years ago we were actually at WDW for Mickey’s birthday and it was such a fun celebration! This year, for Mickey’s 90th Anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than with some delicious recipes from DOLE® and a gorgeous special edition Le Creuset Collection?
Just the Beginning
As you might already know, in 1928 Mickey Mouse made his Hollywood debut in Steamboat Willie. This is one of my all time favorite shorts of his. If you didn’t know, my husband was a sailor in the United States Navy (because of Donald Duck actually) and so we love Steamboat Willie. This short started it all, and I am so glad that it did. At 167 years old, DOLE® knows a thing or two about longevity as well. At the same time Mickey was being introduced to the world, 2,500 miles across the Pacific in Hawaii, James Drummond Dole was overseeing a 20,000-acre pineapple plantation that would grow into the world’s largest provider of fresh fruits and vegetables. Is that impressive or what?
Nine decades later, DOLE® and Disney come together to celebrate Mickey’s 90th anniversary with four months of activities. Over these few months, we are getting fresh takes on some iconic recipes as well as new dishes honoring a True Original and the two brands’ long collaborative friendship. It’s the culmination of DOLE®’s yearlong “Powering the Hero Within” (#DoleHero) initiative, an ambitious nutritious-eating alliance that marries DOLE® fruits, vegetables, and nutrition with the most popular Disney films and characters! You might remember I shared some Incredibles 2 inspired recipes a while back, which were part of this initiative.
Dole & Disney: The History
Launching October 15th and continuing through January 2019, the program presents 19 new Dole Mickey Mouse inspired recipes and how-to recipe videos [WILL ADD RECIPE HYPERLINKS WHEN LIVE] themed to different Mickey Mouse eras plus images of the True Original on tens of millions of DOLE® Bananas, Pineapples, packaged salads, and vegetables in U.S and Canadian supermarkets continentwide. My daughters always enjoy picking out vegetables and fruits that have their favorite characters on them, like Mickey. Hint, hint, parents – this is a great way to get your kids to eat healthy foods!
“Dole and Disney have a rich history of working together toward happier, healthier families, and encouraging kids of all ages to eat better and be more active,” said William Goldfield, Dole’s director of communications. “Since our relationship has always centered on the intersection of fun and food, we knew we wanted to celebrate Mickey’s 90th in a big way.”
Throw Mickey A Party
What better way to celebrate his 90th anniversary than throwing Mickey a birthday party! I don’t know about you guys but this mouse means a lot to me. Disney has been prominent throughout my life, and such an influence on myself and my family. My husband and I honeymooned at Walt Disney World, it means that much to us. So we have been planning on celebrating his big day at home for a while now, and thanks to DOLE® we now have the perfect recipes to help us do so! Recipes include Steamboat Willie Green Apple Waldorf, DOLE® Mushroom Rockefeller, and more.
These are our favorite recipes:
DOLE® Pineapple Julep Smoothie
All 19 original recipes, videos and other content will be available for free download on the DOLE® Pinterest page, so start planning your Mickey’s Birthday Celebration!
Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. She is also a Freelance Writer. Tessa has been in the Entertainment writing business for ten years and is a member of several Critics Associations including the Critics Choice Association and the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association.
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These are the cutest! My daughter would love these.
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I am a huge Mickey Mouse fan! I would love this creuset collection!
This is such a cute collection, Mickey Mouse is my all time favorite Disney character! I have always called my son my little Mickey Mouse because he has these big fluffy cheeks and when he smiles it reminds me of him. 🙂 This would definitely be super special to own!
this is really cute
This is a beautiful set I love the red!
My grandkids would love those adorable cupcakes!! I wonder if they will eat the ears first 🙂
This is pretty cool. I would love to have this.
Those Iconic Mickey ears! Adorable and useful.
I love the red in this set!
Le Creueset and Mickey cool cookware!
I have one Le Creuset pot I have been using for years.
Happy birthday Mickey!
I don’t know why, but I will use my pots and pans, appliances, dishes, etc. until I break them or can’t use them anymore! I see a nice pot like in this giveaway and it makes me want to start my kitchen things from scratch!! TY
Love the red!
La Crueset is an awesome product.
Of course I love the dutch oven but the bowls are just the cutest.
I love the colors of the products! I don’t have anything red 🙁
I love fun products like these for the kitchen.
Mickey Mouse is great!
I really want to try this DOLE Pineapple Julep Smoothie! Oh yeah!
I’m going to make these Mickey cupcakes for my son.
My Granddaughter loves Mickey & Minnie Mouse. She’d go all hotdog hot diggity dog if I made her those cupcakes!
I’ve been a fan of Mickey and Minnie since I was little! Over 55 years now and my feelings haven’t changed! TY
I love Mickey Mouse so totally would love these
This is an awesome giveaway!
I love this set!
It is hard for me to believe that it’s Mickey’s 90th Anniversary and he just keeps getting better! I’m 62 and I look a lot worse than him!! I want his secret 🙂
I lov Disney as well.
The Coco-Nana Birthday Cupcakes sound really good. And they are so cute!
Le Creuset has some of the finest cookware!
I like the color too.
They make some amazing cookware.
Thanks for the opportunity! Best of luck everyone
I really like this set!
My daughters teacher is obsessed with Disney and would LOVE this!
I like the silicone lid with !mickey too! Cute
This is such a cool prize! I love Mickey Mouse
It’s nice that Dole and Disney came together for Mickey’s 90 Anniversary!
Good Morning, posting for the daily blog post entry 🙂 Very Best of luck everyone!!!
I would love to win a La Crueset dish!
My great niece and her mother are minnie/mickey mouse lovers. These are perfect for them. And one of my great niece favorite food is backed mac and cheese………………… they will both loves these
Thanks for the daily chances~!
Thank you for the contest, best of luck everyone!!!!
Disney has been prominent throughout my life too! Happy Birthday Mickey!
Thanks You Mum, and best of luck to all!!!!
Happy Birthday Mickey!
We can’t wait until we’re able to visit Disney again. We’re hoping to shoot for the fall as my kids want to see all the Halloween decorations.
Ps. That Pineapple Smoothie looks delicious! I wonder if I could fit it in my carb count. 🙂
Good Morning, think my granddaughter will be a nagging and wanting to make 1K+ Mickey Mouse Heads, gotta start looking for healthy options.
The pineapple smoothie looks tasty!
I had to pin the Celebrate Disney Mickey Mouse’s 90th Anniversary. TY
I really love the dutch oven !
I cook an amazing pork with pineapple that would work so well in that pot (just sayin’).
Shhhh…go back to sleep, just droppin’ off my daily blog post entry, I’ll just leave it over here with this here box of donuts.
The cupcakes are cute!
I would love that smoothie and my children would love making and eating the cupcakes.
Good Morning, Thank You for the opportunity and best of luck everyone
Pretty cool you had your honey moon at WDW!
This would be so fun to cook with and I love the color!
I love their products! I love you had your honeymoon at Disney!
Good Morning, Thank You and Good Luck Everyone!!
I would love to have this. I could do so much with this..
Pineapple is a great fruit!
I have a couple of Le Creueset pieces and they are the best pieces of cookware that I have used. This Mickey Mouse set is so cute.
Love these when (if) I win it would go to my niece and her daughter. They both are Minnie Mouse fans and they would love to cook with these. The small ones are perfect for a small baked mac & cheese.
Good Morning, best of luck everyone!!!!