Knott's Boysenberry Festival Birthday Fun

My daughter chose to spend her birthday at Knott's Boysenberry Festival this year, and I was more than happy to take her. If you've never been, Knott's Boysenberry Festival grew out of Knott's Berry Bloom, the food was so popular it became it's own event. The best bet for enjoying the most food items at the best price is the tasting card, this year you get 8 items for one price, and you get to choose what you use it on. So, if you find that one item on the menu that you love, or see an item you know you'll hate, skip what you don't like and get seconds of what you love. We tried 7 of the 8 items on the card, only skipping the hummus, and doubled up on the Boysenberry Sausage. Tasting card includes: Short Rib, Pierogies, Chicken Wings, Coconut Macaroon, Elote(corn), Hummus with PIta Bread, Cheese Quesadilla, Sausage on a Bun. Of course all these items are "Boysenberry" in some way, either the sauce or cooked with boysenberries. There are many boysenberry items not on the card throughout the park, such as cheesecake, doughnuts, ice cream, and the infamous Fun Bun, but at an extra cost of course. Let's not forget that boysenberry beer, cider, and wine are also available, so bring your ID. I always suggest the half and half of boysenberry beer and cider, for some the cider is too sweet, halfing it with beer makes it perfect in my opinion. Also, if you don't use your entire tasting card you can always come back and use it another day, I find that it's difficult to make it through everything in one visit, unless you have help (kids). Also be warned that lines for some foods get very long, especially during lunch time, the items with the longest lines were the Short Rib and Sausage when we visited.

In any case, this is just a quick report of what was mostly a food run, info for Boysenberry Festival can be found on the Knott's Berry Farm website if you're interested. It run's daily through April 8, and pictures...

For a perfect birthday experience, get a birthday button and a tasting card!

Each tab is one item, and the items available are listed on the card!

What? You say where can I find these things...here's a map!

Macaroon!

Um, no she did not want to share.

Her sister luckily had her own tasting card.

Boysenberry wings, one of those items you may want to use your entire card on 4x8=32 wings!!!

Wings are actually pretty big.

Didn't last long.

These are worth a try.

A little onion and bacon on top.

Seeing these prices gives you an idea of what a great value the tasting cards are.

Meat just falls off the bone!

Wait, when did we get to Golden Corral?

When I dip, you dip, we dip...

On a stick, no forks needed, just shove it in your face.

One of these is not a boysenberry. It's a carmel, nut, cookie, chocolate thing, can't remember what it's called.

In case you forgot where we're at.

There is also fresh fudge in many flavors.

I'd say these were good, but my children didn't share, so I don't know!

Noted.

The boysenberry salsa is excellent! Boysenberry cheese quesadilla.

Boysenberry items are available all over, some available all year long!

If you build it they will come...and eat it!

My personal favorite, and it's right next to the beer.

Longest line of the day, but the line moved fast.

BoysenBEERy!

Washes the sausage down very well.

My son calls this "stinky guy".

Win an alpaca named Jim on your birthday!

Okay, that's all I have. Love this event, have gone every year, and it just keeps getting better! My daughter thoroughly enjoyed her boysenberry filled birthday, I'm glad she still enjoys spending a day with her Dad at an amusement park. Check out this event if you haven't been, Xcelerator is up and running, and Hangtime may open before Boysenberry Festival ends, lots of reasons to go! Thanks for looking, leave a comment.

Love reports like this.. thanks so much for the pics of all the food (it all really looks delicious).

and Happy Birthday to your kiddo.

LOL.. is it wrong, that my favorite part of this whole report is the unchanging INTENSITY of the "cheesecake dipper"??

Great report!

I hit up the Boysenberry Festival a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, as well. It sounds like the general consensus is that the sausages were the best thing on the tasting card, and I wholeheartedly agree. The guy at that booth said one family spent the entirety of all 3 of their tasting cards at that booth.

That being said, everything was delicious. I didn't want to spend the extra money to try the dipped cheesecake on a stick, but after seeing your close-up pics of it, I may change my mind when I go back next week.

That's great. I am glad you enjoyed the food. I think I would use the whole card on sausage, wings and short ribs.

Dude... It's 3am, I just got home from a long shift, and now I'm starving.

Great report. This event looks like a lot of fun.

I'm going to go to Boysenberry Fest either next Thursday or Friday. Really looking forward to it even if its crowded. I'd love it if HangTime soft opens, but if not I'll still have a great time. Thanks for the report, I'll have to save some room for some of the items off the tasting card.