Chapter 339 - 145: This Is a Pastry? I Don’t Believe It, It’s a Walnut

Chapter 339: Chapter 145: This Is a Pastry? I Don’t Believe It, It’s a Walnut

In five minutes, they had suddenly gained 50,000 fans!

Just how terrifying were these numbers?

Give this account the slightest chance, and there was no doubt it would become a top-tier account!

With a few quick moves from He Shuting...

After a long hiatus, the Meiweilai Company account went live once again!

Meanwhile, Zhang Jiayi readily ended her co-stream with Sweet.

’We may have lost the PK battle, but it was a glorious defeat!’

’I can’t believe I earned over 900,000 in gift value from a PK battle that lasted less than 20 minutes. No wonder Dad was so insistent that I break into the livestreaming scene!’

This was the modern livestreaming industry; its sheer power was something you had to experience to believe.

To earn over ninety thousand in revenue in such a short time... even after the platform’s cut and taxes, a hefty sum remained!

After ending her stream, she joined the massive influx of viewers flocking to the Meiweilai Company’s channel.

He Shuting had never seen anything like it. Overcome with fear, she simply tossed the phone to Su Chen.

"Th-th-this... it’s over 100,000!"

Su Chen used to be in this line of work. Whether it was making short videos or livestreaming, it was all second nature to him.

He expertly disabled all the filters and beauty effects, took the phone stand Ling Shuyu had ready, and positioned the camera to overlook the stove in front of him.

This angle provided a full view.

"Since you’re all here, I might as well stream the final pastry the company is preparing for our four guests."

The moment the stream went live, his old professional habits kicked in.

Su Chen glanced at the bullet comments and almost fainted on the spot.

"Fam, this boss is the real deal! His profile is full of thigh-highs! I clicked in and got completely stuck!"

"Don’t tell me those are the boss’s own thigh-highs? No way, is he that kinky?"

"Probably the thigh-highs of that girl from the start of the stream. A girl that hot is just a server at this company? This boss has definitely got some game!"

"Aren’t you guys watching his latest video? The one on steamed sea bass? The tutorial is top-notch!"

With so many people in the stream now, all kinds of comments were flying around. Su Chen took a quick look and forced himself to refocus.

’It’s just livestreaming. After today, I definitely won’t be touching this stuff again.’

’Since He Shuting enjoys this, I could gradually transition her away from her diner duties. Of course, that’s something to arrange down the line.’ Su Chen temporarily pushed the thought from his mind.

He had to make use of the last half hour of his White Jade Hand.

"Eighth Senior Brother, let’s begin."

"You got it!" Chen Wenliang had already prepared all the materials, just waiting for Su Chen to give the order.

With hundreds of thousands watching the livestream, with several National Banquet Masters from the Capital City observing on-site, and especially under the intense gaze of the Capital City’s Grand Craftsman, Zhao Huilian...

Su Chen picked up one of the dough balls, began his creation, and, out of professional habit, started narrating as he worked.

"The dough for these fruit-shaped pastries is made from butter, fine white sugar, eggs, cocoa powder, and flour."

"Since the dough is already prepared, you can’t see the process of making it, so I’ll skip that for now," Su Chen explained. "If you’re interested, I can make a tutorial video later."

On-site, Zhao Huilian clenched his fists.

’Impossible... This is absolutely impossible!’

Others might not know, but he understood perfectly.

Unlike other pastries, fruit-shaped pastries are made to mimic real fruits and vegetables—in fact, they can be made to look like anything at all!

In the process, the recipe itself wasn’t the crucial part; the ingredients were always the same few things.

The true challenge was making the color of the pastry identical to that of the real fruit or vegetable it was meant to represent.

This was the greatest challenge of all!

The second challenge was the proportions.

Take Su Chen’s walnut pastry, for example. The cocoa powder wasn’t there to add flavor, but simply to dye the dough.

Too much cocoa powder, and the color would be too dark. Too little, and it would be too pale.

The true, guarded secret of making these pastries lay in mastering those exact proportions!

Zhao Huilian remembered it vividly. To create his chili pepper pastry, he and his apprentices had spent ages in the kitchen, painstakingly adjusting the recipe gram by gram.

But simple, rigid adjustments weren’t enough.

Because natural colors vary!

This meant that for every new batch, you couldn’t just use the previous measurements. You had to constantly build on your experience, making adjustments based on that accumulated knowledge!

It had taken Zhao Huilian a full two years of trial and error before he finally perfected the ratios of ingredients to natural coloring agents.

Unsurprisingly, the moment his chili pepper pastry was released, it became an instant, massive success.

That was no exaggeration.

He currently possessed only seven or eight such recipes, each one a masterwork—the kind of secret you only pass down to your disciple on your deathbed!

’And this Boss Su is starting right off the bat with a walnut?’

’And he’s going to fucking publicize the recipe? And make a tutorial video, no less?’

Zhao Huilian just couldn’t bring himself to believe it.

Of course, there was one thing Zhao Huilian hadn’t considered.

Even if Su Chen did release a tutorial, it would only cover the general method. He would never reveal the precise recipe.

The tutorial would be more than enough for the average person who wanted to try it at home. The results just might not have the perfect color, or they might be a bit too sweet or cloying, but that didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

But for anyone trying to use it commercially...

They’d be out of luck. They could go back to their own painstaking, gram-by-gram trial and error.

"So that’s the gist of the dough," Su Chen said. "Next, you have to wrap a filling inside. Since we’re making walnut pastries, we’ll use a nut-based filling."