Wow, the last update was before Halloween?? I thought September was bad, but the last part of November through the entire month of December was even worse!
But all of us survived, with some good/crazy memories of the holidays. I should review some of the memorable stuff that happened during those chaotic times.
The last half of October was all about pumpkins and Halloween.
We made these Halloween pumpkins macarons for La Bonne Vie...
We also serve English high tea every day, but just during the Halloween season, there's a special promotion called "The Witch's Tea".
All the dessert pastries are spooky and Halloween-themed. This year, we served the Halloween macarons, Spider web almond florentines, and Bloody Devil's cupcakes (with raspberry jam filling).
The opening day of the Witch's High Tea, I happened to go out to the hotel lobby and came upon an (almost) surreal scenery....
O_O ...What the....??
Apparently it was the Utah Black Hat Society, a group of (I think) real witches living a life of magic. The hotel lobby suddenly resembled the Hogwarts School of Magic.
The amenities for the guests got a little spooky also.
"What's this? What's this?? There are pastries everywhere!
What's this? They're being made with greatest care!"
...Just me playing around with tuxedo strawberries. The servers thought they were adorable.
One of the employee's grandmother was at the Witch's High Tea (no, she's not an actual witch...). But it was also her birthday, so she asked me to make her a special, Halloween birthday cake.
It's a chocolate mousse cake glazed with dark glacage and decorated with (handmade) chocolate spiders, webs, and spooky strawberries. She loved it!
And that was Halloween. Next up, the Thanksgiving and Christmas recap...
