Just a short Thursday post to browse on your coffee break and catch up a little about what’s happening in production.
Chef has been busy building display pieces. Once again we’ll have our snowman, nutcracker and penguin, but they are going to look a bit different this year. The snowman and nutcracker will be more on the rustic side. For the snowman, after molding, a thin layer of milk chocolate was hand applied, and then Chef started in with small carving tools- looking for a distressed wood kind of look.
The peguin is in an interesting in between state. It started out our regular chilly-Willy, and will become something more abstracted, but based on a real penguin, not the cartoon character. I should write ‘if it works’ because there is some finessing going on, and well, sometimes chocolate breaks.
And I know…it’s not quite Thanksgiving yet, but the cookie assortment for the holiday cookie plates has been figured out. We’ll have Linzers, gingerbread men, flooded/decorated shortbread, mini-Madelines, mini-brownies…It will be a very full plate (this, along with our Stollen, were popular host/hostess gifts). We have a couple of other holiday surprises that will be brought out after Thanksgiving…
So, again, just a short post for this morning. Have a great Thursday everyone!
