Chen Huahua is a food blogger on Bilibili.
On this small broken website, there are so many food bloggers like her that they are just like crucian carp crossing the river.
Fortunately, Chen Huahua has always been famous for her genuine humor, so after several years of hard work, she has nearly 300,000 fans, which can be considered quite successful.
This time the website had a live broadcast event, and she didn't decide on a theme for a while. Seeing that those appetizing foods with greasy sauces were all taken by other up hosts, as an ambitious up host, she couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
After all, live streaming is all about the atmosphere. If she really cooks a dish on the spot, she will have no time to spend with her fans.
After much thought, dim sum is still the most suitable.
But when it comes to making Western pastries, she is not as good as some professional cake bloggers.
Making Chinese dim sum is not as good as some skilled hands that can shape it... After racking her brains, Chen Huahua looked at the peach blossom branches outside the window and finally set a goal -
She wants to make flower cakes!
Flower cakes are a local specialty, and they are nothing special. But the cakes are made of flowers and sugar, which makes them look very nice in the camera, and the finished product is also very sweet.
Chen Huahua thought her idea was good, and more importantly, she decided not to use roses, but instead choose a seasonal flower - peach blossom.
But the problem is that the ornamental peaches in the park are poisonous and cannot be eaten.
The peach blossoms at the nearby base are left to bear fruit... Dried peach blossoms are inevitably less beautiful when photographed.
Chen Huahua, who lives in a first-tier city, can only go to the omnipotent Taotaobao.
There are quite a lot of them on Taotaobao, with different prices, and even the photos are all high-definition, beautiful, and simple...
As she was browsing, she accidentally walked into a small shop called Tianyuan Notes.
This store looks ordinary, but it has a special feel.
For example, these photos seem to be taken by some master photographer. There are close-ups, long shots, close-ups, and atmosphere. They can be submitted for competitions in any minute. They are so beautiful.
What can be photographed are tea leaves, honey, pakchoy, peach blossoms, and white fungus...
This is indeed a bit of a waste.
However, it was precisely because of this beautiful picture that Chen Huahua was reluctant to leave the store for the moment, and instead looked at each one.
She discovered that the price of peach petals in this store was outrageous—20 yuan for 10 grams!
10 grams!
And it’s not dry and weighs nothing, but fresh!
However, there was a line of small print below, explaining that the time limit for ice-transported express delivery varies due to the length of the journey, and if the petals wilt, it will not affect the use or medicinal purpose, and no returns will be accepted.
Although fresh food does not accept returns, these petals... the price they sell is too outrageous, right
Moreover, Peach Blossom has just been put on the shelves not long ago, and the sales volume is only more than 500 copies, and the reviews below are not out yet.
But she looked at other things in the store, especially the tea and aromatherapy bags, and praised them to the skies. What’s more, the descriptions of them were very realistic, with pictures and videos. Some even came back to add comments a week later!
Without exception, all the reviews were positive.
Chen Huahua: …
Don’t customers nowadays care whether the amount is outrageous or not when they pay
This store is the same, the aromatherapy bag is just an aromatherapy bag, they really just use a ziplock bag to hold one gram of tea and take a photo, and they even have to tell you what the contents are! They also have to make a note on the details page. Is it not cost-effective? ?
In short, after looking at the whole store, I was filled with outrageousness.
But this was so outrageous and magical that Chen Huahua placed the order without realizing it.
But when she paid, she found out that there was an extra 20 yuan for postage, which made her feel very uncomfortable...
Not including shipping is a big taboo!
!
But after much hesitation, she finally managed to pay the bill.
To be honest, the express delivery fee is not paid in vain.
Fengfeng Express’s delivery time is really fast. Only one day later, she received the carefully packed express box.
The dry ice bag was emitting cool steam, and the tender peach petals carefully packed in the packaging box were pink and fragrant, fresh and alluring, without any signs of wilting. Instead, they made people feel as if bathed in the spring breeze, and were exceptionally fresh.
Just for the quality, Chen Huahua feels that her money was not wasted!
The slight depression I had felt before was instantly soothed.
She couldn't wait to give out a preview and started the live broadcast soon.
The name of the live broadcast is as mentioned before—
Pure natural peach blossom cake, freshly baked!
It is afternoon now, when people are feeling sleepy. They need a leisurely live broadcast room like this to maintain this wonderful feeling.
As usual, Chen Huahua first prepared various materials and displayed them on the screen one by one, and then displayed the peach petals that had not yet been taken out of the packaging box in front of everyone, and did not forget to complain by the way:
"See? It's just a small box of peach petals, but it cost me 120 dollars! These are fresh peach petals that I bought online at a high price. If the cakes I make today are not delicious, I think it should be primarily responsible."
The comments were filled with laughter and tears.
As we all know, if you actually go to a store to buy flower cakes, 100 yuan is enough to buy several boxes.
Huahua only got a box of tightly pressed peach petals - she bought five portions, and there were only 50 grams.
It's just a box when it's compressed.
Everyone can only sigh: If you have money, you can do whatever you want.
There are various ways to make flower cakes, but Huahua chose the most common one - after all, it is for novice cooks, and it is too complicated and not suitable for her audience.
At this moment, in front of the camera, she washed the peach petals with boiled water, and then poured them into a bamboo dustpan to dry.
While the drying process was going on, she prepared white sugar, honey, and a clean glass bottle.
"After the peach petals are dried, pour them into a basin, then add sugar in turn and knead them gently with your hands?"
"While squeezing out the moisture, the sugar can be better blended with the peach petals for pickling..."
In the camera, during the process of grabbing and kneading, the color of the peach blossom became darker and darker, and deep red marks were kneaded out of the originally pink and white petals, and the edges were stained with pink and red juice.
The fragrance of peach blossoms could not be smelled in the live broadcast room, but Chen Huahua was instantly intoxicated.
At this moment, she held the basin and couldn't help but sniff it fiercely in front of the camera, and then said solemnly: "I have a feeling that today's flower cake must be very delicious!"
"Because the peach petals are really fragrant, especially the natural sweet fragrance!"
"Come on, let's add some more sugar next - don't say too much sugar! This is the amount of sugar you need to make flower cakes, because flower petals are inherently bitter!"
"Come on, keep kneading... Wow, it smells so good! I can't help but want to eat it now!"
Chen Huahua swallowed her saliva. This time she was not exaggerating. The fragrance of the peach petals mixed with sugar made her unable to hold back.