44.Buchedenoel
Because of the huge project and the opening hours of the coffee shop, Lee Jun-hyuk's plan to set up the small shop lasted for three days, and it was not until the morning of the 24th that Lee Jun-hyuk and the staff completed all the arrangements.
Looking at the Christmas tree in the center of the room that reached the ceiling, Lee Jun-hyuk was in a very happy mood, and he believed that as long as the guests who came to the restaurant to dine today saw this tree, they would definitely let out a sigh of admiration.
As Lee Jun-hyuk said, when the door opened in the morning, every customer who came in sighed when they saw the big Christmas tree erected in the middle of the house. Seeing that the whole tree was full of gifts, several frequent customers even jokingly asked if it was a gift for them.
This joke is exactly what Lee Jun Hyuk wants, he has already arranged for the waiter to introduce the evening activities when ordering food during the day, and these cute customers ask directly. After Kim Soon-ae's training and guidance, the waiters in Lee Jun-hyuk's store not only have a much higher salary than other places, but their quality is also very good. Hearing the customer's inquiry, a waiter who was promoted to a small foreman by Kim Soon-ae immediately began to introduce the evening's activities.
In fact, the activity is very simple, that is, the 24th and 25th start from dinner time, add the traditional European Christmas meal, including roast pig, turkey, Christmas pudding, dried tarts and other festive specialties. In addition, during this time, everyone who dined in the store will get a gift on the Christmas tree, one for each person, take it yourself, you can take whichever you want, and the little foreman also briefly introduced the value of the gift, when the customer heard that the highest value of the gift was a necklace of up to 3 million yuan, the whole restaurant was boiling.
Just as Lee Jun Hyuk thought, after the first customers learned the news, the event held by the coffee shop was immediately spread by these people through different channels, that is, Lee Jun Hyuk's purpose was basically achieved before the event started.
But at this moment, Lee Jun Hyuk didn't have time to think about these things, he was working on the second floor and the pastry chef was concentrating.
Now that Christmas food has been added to dinner, it is not enough to sell monotonous refreshments at tea time. So Lee Jun-hyuk added a cake called "Buchedenoel", which literally translates to Christmas trunk, which is a must-have in French Christmas, to the refreshments of these two days.
Because the French are romantic by nature, even the origins of gastronomy are romantic: once upon a time, a young man who could not afford to buy a Christmas present, picked up a piece of wood in the forest and gave it to his lover, not only won the heart, but also rose to prominence, and the trunk cake became a symbol of good luck for the coming year.
Whether this little story is true or not, the "Buchedenoel" cake has indeed become one of the world's most famous Christmas treats. So Lee Jun-hyuk believes that putting this cake on the coffee shop's festive menu will definitely be very popular.
In fact, this cake does not have a fixed taste, any cake roll, even a French breadstick, can be used as a base, and the cream or ice cream made from butter is smeared on top of the base to make the cake simply carved into the shape of a tree trunk. Then decorate with items like vanilla, almond chocolate, coffee, and strawberries, and you're done.
Of course, because Lee Jun-hyuk's coffee shop belongs to the boutique category, the shape and taste of the Christmas trunk he wants to make must also match the style of the shop.
Lee Jun-hyuk has prepared four flavors of "Christmas trunks", the first of which is a very simple base of bread that is already sold in the store, and then made into the shape of a trunk with melted almond chocolate as a tree bark, and then garnished with items such as Santa Claus and snowflakes made of caramel and marshmallows, making it the cheapest Christmas trunk in the coffee shop.
The second type of cake is a little more expensive, and it is made with a cocoa roll as a base, topped with cream, vanilla and other ingredients, and then carved into the shape of a tree trunk and decorated with strawberries and marshmallows.
The most expensive one is a fruit cake with fruit added to it from the inside out, and then the outside is carved into the shape of a tree trunk with a mixture of vanilla and cream, and then the chocolate brand engraved with the word "Merrychristmas" is carved out of chocolate.
There is also a Christmas tree trunk made of ice cream that Lee Jun Hyuk used as a Christmas gift, due to the limited raw materials and the troublesome process, so Lee Jun Hyuk simply took this as a Christmas gift, and asked the waiter to make 6 gift boxes with the words ice cream Christmas trunk when hanging the gifts, and hung them on the Christmas tree with other gifts.
Although Lee Jun-hyuk and the pastry chef were both engrossed in their work, the workload of the two was different, and Lee Jun-hyuk didn't bother the pastry chef after telling him all the methods and requirements for making this Christmas trunk, and the poor pastry chef had to make all three kinds of trunk cakes sold in the store. Fortunately, the pastry chef himself likes making cakes very much, and he has been paid three times his salary in the past two days, so he is very happy to be more tired than usual.
Li Junhe is making the ice cream cake at this moment, in fact, the ice cream raw materials he bought are enough for him to make about a dozen ice cream cakes, but this kind of cake must be made by hand, and the various proportions of the production and the carving of the hands are very grinding, so in Li Junhyuk's opinion, it can't be sold at all, so he simply left 6 as gifts and hung them on the tree, and made a few more for Zheng Xiuyan and a few little girls. After all, among the few people Lee Jun Hyuk is familiar with, only Zheng Xiuyan, a few little girls, like ice cream.
A total of 9 ice cream cakes were made, and by the time the last one was ready, it was already dark outside. It's not that Lee Jun-hyuk took a whole day to make nine cakes, but because Lee Jun-hyuk's cake was more popular than he expected, the stock that was prepared before the opening was swept away within half an hour of the first sale.
So the sad Lee Jun Hyuk was ordered by Kim Soon-ae to help the pastry chef make a trunk cake in the afternoon, Kim Soon-ae's reason made Lee Jun Hyuk have no way to refute, the reason is very simple, the activities of the whole two days of Christmas were proposed by Lee Jun Hyuk, so as the main person in charge, he must help deal with this super busy period.
Originally, if the pastry chef was too busy to be busy, there would be Yang Lei, but at this moment, Yang Lei was taking two small workers to prepare for the Christmas dinner to start in the evening.
Lee Jun-hyuk was busy all afternoon with this help, and it was not until dinner time began and Christmas dinner began to be sold that the craze for trunk cakes dropped and Lee Jun-hyuk was able to get out.
After making the last ice cream cake, Lee Jun Hyuk stretched his waist, although the amount of labor this day was not worth mentioning compared to the previous training, but if he let Lee Jun Hyuk choose himself, he would definitely choose to go back to training. After all, it takes too much effort to make carvings with ice cream, and Lee Jun Hyuk is not a professional chef, so he wants to make the look he wants, and it takes more effort than those professionals.
Seeing that the freezer was full of ice cream cakes, Li Junhyuk's heart was also full of a sense of accomplishment, in fact, he had already thought about the distribution of these 9 cakes, except for 6 as Christmas gifts, the remaining three were kept for Zheng Xiuyan and the girls, and the other two were taken out for the clerk as desserts after cooking after the business ended.
However, after Lee Jun Hyuk closed the door of the freezer, he walked back to the front of the oven. Take a few freshly finished bread and cake crusts from the pastry chef, combine them, and make the same bark with cream and chocolate, and a simple trunk cake is ready.
This combined trunk cake was improvised by Lee Jun Hyuk, because he remembered that not everyone likes ice cream when he was separated from the ice cream cake just now, and now there are 11 staff members in the store, so the two ice cream cakes are definitely not enough, and the employees who have already made the trunk cake will definitely not eat it because they will continue to sell it the next day, so Lee Jun Hyuk made such a simple combined Christmas trunk cake, which is regarded as a holiday for his employees.
Lee Jun Hyuk never dreamed that such a relatively simple tree trunk cake that he improvised would bring him a lot of trouble.