Hershey's Chocolate World - Flavors of Fall Dessert Festival

While the "factory tour" (really called the chocolate tour) is free, there are lots of ways to spend your money at Hershey's Chocolate World. In addition to the retail space and the many tempting places to get food, there are also some paid activities to do. We ended up choosing two, one of which was The Flavors of Fall Dessert Festival. It was seasonal, so not on the web site, but once there it was an easy choice to make.

We were given a box with slots inside and a checklist on the outside. Each symbol on the box appeared somewhere else in Chocolate World, and we could go there and get a treat. This allowed us to see what treats were new for Fall 2015 - and was a really good price for the treats - but also it gives you a tour of Chocolate World. It's focused on what there is on the food side, but most of the stops were near other activities. For example, if I remember correctly, one stop was near the Build Your Own Candy Bar activity, and one was near the Photo Studio. You ended up covering most of Chocolate World as you filled up your box.

Portions were generally small, because at every stop you were seeing wonderful things that you might want more of. Employees were very friendly and helpful. Generally they really knew their stuff too, except for the ice cream guy. He was not sure which thing he was supposed to gives us (probably something with caramel) so he just said we could have whatever we wanted free. We were satisfied with this.

Other stops included a candy-corn style mini cupcake, an apple crisp mini-muffin, and a dipped pretzel rod. Something had made me think that we were going to be able to dip our pretzel rods ourselves, but they were already dipped. Maybe I was confusing it with the other stop.

There is a section that focuses on building your own. There is a lot of emphasis on s'mores, but you can also concoct hot cocoa with marshmallows, or decorate cupcakes, or our creative endeavor...

decorating a pumpkin cookie.

This was a nice chance to wind down a little and relax. It's upstairs from most of the traffic, so you can let your creative juices flow, and then eat a cookie.

I can't find a picture of the third cookie, which was completely covered in sprinkles, but we all had a nice time.

In a very real way, every single thing you can do at Chocolate World is for your sweet tooth, so saying this was satisfying for that... I mean, what wasn't? I maintain that this was a good choice.

http://www.hersheys.com/chocolateworld/explore