[Lauder] Come in and order a s'more.
It's a fun, interactive experience.
We're gonna make it for you right before your eyes.
You're gonna get to see it being made,
and we're gonna bring it out nice and warm and fresh for you.
Working for Disney was a dream of mine
since I was probably close to 13 years old.
And I turned to my parents, and I said,
"This is what I wanna do when I grow up. And I wanna be a pastry chef for Disney."
-[woman] Oh! [chuckles] -[girl] Oh.
[muffled] That's good.
I'm Amanda Lauder,
Chef Chocolatier for The Ganachery at Disney Springs,
and I've been working for The Walt Disney Company for 17 years.
It's four in the morning, and we're just getting ready here at The Ganachery.
Um, we like to start nice and early.
We have a lot of chocolate to make for the day.
I am currently the one and only Chef Chocolatier
um, at The Walt Disney Company.
And what we do is specialize in
making handcrafted chocolate ganache squares every day.
Something we have at the Ganachery that's incredibly unique
is actually our own custom blend of dark chocolate.
Maybe you'll be adventurous and you'll try a chipotle pepper.
Uh, maybe you just wanna stick to a creamy milk chocolate.
I went to the Culinary Institute of America,
and, in that process, I came down to do an externship with Disney.
I had gotten placed at the Grand Floridian Bake Shop.
So right there for me it was, sort of, dream came true.
It's just been such a great fit.
-So, you're gonna start to chablon today? -Yep.
All right. How many batches are we doing for the day?
We're doing about 20 today.
-About 20 batches? Fantastic. -[assistant] Yes, Chef.
-Should get us through the weekend. -[assistant] Yeah.
Are we gonna do milk flavors or dark flavors?
-We're doing dark today. -Dark today?
-Yeah. -We're gonna be enrobing milk later on?
-Yes, Chef. -Okay, wonderful.
So, for the weekend, we wanna go into the weekend
with having about four trays of this ready for us.
We produce about 5,000 chocolate ganache squares daily.
We utilize about eight tons of chocolate a year.
We run about 20, 21 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
We have never been closed.
This color comes out because of the, um, pistachio paste that we use.
[Lauder] How's it look?
-Nice and shiny. -[Lauder] Beautiful.
This is my favorite flavor.
I love the flavor.
Um, the consistency on this is wonderful.
For now, the ganache frame is on the peel.
And she's gonna slide it over to the guitar cutter,
and that's what we use to cut it into squares.
Nice and slow. Just takes a little bit of pressure.
Not too much.
And then we get 144 perfect little squares.
Beautiful.
Boom.
We have the opportunity to do a lot of synergy items with films,
and we kinda had this idea.
Could we take the alien from Toy Story and make it into a chocolate piñata?
They wear a blue and purple space suit.
And so we have stars with blue and purple sprinkles.
And then they'll be filled with treats.
It has essence. It has the embodiment of what we're trying to create.
It feels like the character from the movie.
It's, sort of, just become, like, a joke now.
We have little arm movements that we do. "Essence!"
Um, because when they get it, I get so excited. [chuckles]
I get so excited. And I'm like, "Yes!"
And, so, it kind of became this thing, but you gotta nail it.
You know when it's right, and you know when it's not.
The Ganachery to me, you know, has been a dream job.
I just hope that if someone else is aspiring to be somebody someday,
just know that you can.
Um, you know, I was 13. It took a lot of work.
You had to find your path, but you can make it happen.
-Thank you. -[assistant] That's for you, sweetie.
-[girl] I'm working here. -Oh!
-Yeah. See? -[chuckles] She's working here.
We got a new chocolatier on board.
[Lauder] This is somewhere where your job is to make guests happy every day.
Delicious, yeah?
[mother] Mm-hmm.
[Lauder] To me there's only one place in the world you can do that,
and that's with Disney.