Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana French Toast from Disney’s PCH Grill

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Looking for some Disney magic at your next family breakfast? Why not try this Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana French Toast from Disney’s PCH Grill!

If you’re looking for a fun recipe for the whole family to make together, then this yummy breakfast dish might just be the one for you! This Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana French Toast is a perfectly sweet way to start your morning and is one of the many dishes that rotate seasonally on the menu at Disney’s PCH Grill at Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel.

This fun French toast will definitely taste like paradise and is one more way for you to create #DisneyMagicMoments with the whole family.

Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana, French Toast from Disney’s PCH Grill at Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel

Click here for a print-at-home version of this recipe!

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 8 thick slices day-old challah bread
  • 2 ripe bananas
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 6 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 3/4 cup low-fat chocolate milk
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Chocolate syrup and powdered sugar, optional

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Coat a 9x13x2-inch baking pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
  2. Cut bread into 1-inch cubes and place in a large bowl. Slice bananas into 1/2-inch slices, and add to bowl. Stir in chocolate chips.
  3. Combine peanut butter, eggs, chocolate milk, cinnamon, and salt in a blender. Process until smooth.
  4. Pour egg mixture over bread mixture. Stir gently until bread cubes have absorbed egg mixture.
  5. Pour mixture into prepared baking pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until top is golden brown.
  6. Before serving, drizzle with chocolate syrup and dust with powdered sugar, if desired.

Chef’s Note: Challah is traditional Jewish yeast bread, rich with eggs, sweetened with honey that makes the best French toast. 

Disneyland Vaccination Site Closed Today Due to High Wind Warning

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Via wdwnt.com

The Orange County Health Care Agency posted an update last night about the ongoing COVID-19 vaccinations at the Disneyland super site. It was announced last week that the Toy Story Parking Lot at the Disneyland Resort would become a Super POD vaccination site, able to handle a large number of vaccinations at once. But due to a high winds warning issued for Orange County, the POD site will close today, January 19. Any guests with appointments at the site will be notified and their appointment rescheduled.

This closure comes just days after the site initially opened. With more wind and rain forecasted for So Cal later in the week, it remains to be seen if the POD site will be closing with each weather event.

Disney Legend Renie Bardeau, Iconic Disneyland Photographer, Dies at 86

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Rene Bardeau, Chief Photographer at Disney from 1975 to 1998, passed away on January 4th at 86 years old due to kidney failure complications related to COVID-19. He was best known as the photographer of some of Walt Disney’s most iconic Disneyland portraits.

Bardeau’s illustrious career began at Disneyland in 1959, covering the opening of the Tomorrowland expansion. He was promoted to Disneyland’s Chief Photographer in 1968, before becoming the Walt Disney Company’s Chief Photographer in 1975. He retired in 1998, and was honored as Disney Legend and with a Main Street Window at Disneyland the following year.

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Perhaps Bardeau’s most iconic photo is this shot of Walt Disney walking the grounds of Disneyland in 1964, entitled Footsteps. The Disneyland Resort issued the following statement in the wake of his passing:

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Renie Bardeau, who will long be remembered for some of the most iconic Disneyland photography ever published.

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His most memorable work also stretches to this iconic portrait of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse aboard a Disneyland Fire Department car. As it happens, this was the final picture taken of Walt Disney at Disneyland before his 1966 passing.

Bardeau is survived by his daughter, son, stepson, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Disneyland Cancels Annual Passes & “Sunsetting” Passholder Program

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Big news out of Disneyland today as Disney announces they are cancelling all Disneyland Annual Passes and “sunsetting” the current Disneyland Passholder program.

As shared via Disney Parks News Twitter:

“We want to thank our Annual Passholders for their understanding during this closure period. Due to the continued uncertainty of the pandemic and limitations around the reopening of our California theme parks, we will be issuing appropriate refunds for eligible Disneyland Resort Annual Passports and sunsetting the current program. We are currently developing new membership offerings that will utilize consumer insights to deliver choice, flexibility and value for our biggest fans.”

Disneyland has been closed for roughly 11 months now due to COVID-19, and no plans have been made public for a possible reopen anytime in the near future.

Disneyland Resort to Become COVID-19 Vaccine Site

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The Happiest Place on Earth will soon become the Biggest COVID-19 Vaccination Site in Orange County as new plans for vaccine distribution have been established for California in hopes of lowering transmission rates.

Disneyland Resort in Anaheim will become the Super first Point-of-Dispensing site for COVID-19 vaccines for residents of Orange County, set to vaccinate thousands of residents daily. The site is expected to begin operations later this week alongside other large venues such as Dodger Stadium, which is switching from a COVID-19 testing site to a vaccination site.

Currently, only residents in Phase 1a can receive the vaccine—that is, residents age 75 or older.