1 00:00:02,648 --> 00:00:03,733 [Lauder] Come in and order a s'more. 2 00:00:03,816 --> 00:00:05,359 It's a fun, interactive experience. 3 00:00:05,443 --> 00:00:07,111 We're gonna make it for you right before your eyes. 4 00:00:07,194 --> 00:00:08,612 You're gonna get to see it being made, 5 00:00:08,696 --> 00:00:10,614 and we're gonna bring it out nice and warm and fresh for you. 6 00:00:11,782 --> 00:00:13,826 Working for Disney was a dream of mine 7 00:00:13,909 --> 00:00:15,995 since I was probably close to 13 years old. 8 00:00:16,078 --> 00:00:17,413 And I turned to my parents, and I said, 9 00:00:17,496 --> 00:00:20,624 "This is what I wanna do when I grow up. And I wanna be a pastry chef for Disney." 10 00:00:21,167 --> 00:00:24,336 -[woman] Oh! [chuckles] -[girl] Oh. 11 00:00:25,171 --> 00:00:26,380 [muffled] That's good. 12 00:00:27,506 --> 00:00:28,758 I'm Amanda Lauder, 13 00:00:28,841 --> 00:00:31,594 Chef Chocolatier for The Ganachery at Disney Springs, 14 00:00:31,677 --> 00:00:34,680 and I've been working for The Walt Disney Company for 17 years. 15 00:00:50,071 --> 00:00:53,282 It's four in the morning, and we're just getting ready here at The Ganachery. 16 00:00:53,366 --> 00:00:55,284 Um, we like to start nice and early. 17 00:00:55,368 --> 00:00:57,036 We have a lot of chocolate to make for the day. 18 00:00:58,537 --> 00:01:01,457 I am currently the one and only Chef Chocolatier 19 00:01:01,540 --> 00:01:03,250 um, at The Walt Disney Company. 20 00:01:03,334 --> 00:01:05,336 And what we do is specialize in 21 00:01:05,419 --> 00:01:09,006 making handcrafted chocolate ganache squares every day. 22 00:01:09,799 --> 00:01:12,093 Something we have at the Ganachery that's incredibly unique 23 00:01:12,176 --> 00:01:15,054 is actually our own custom blend of dark chocolate. 24 00:01:15,137 --> 00:01:17,765 Maybe you'll be adventurous and you'll try a chipotle pepper. 25 00:01:17,848 --> 00:01:20,518 Uh, maybe you just wanna stick to a creamy milk chocolate. 26 00:01:22,561 --> 00:01:24,605 I went to the Culinary Institute of America, 27 00:01:24,689 --> 00:01:29,360 and, in that process, I came down to do an externship with Disney. 28 00:01:29,443 --> 00:01:31,987 I had gotten placed at the Grand Floridian Bake Shop. 29 00:01:32,071 --> 00:01:35,199 So right there for me it was, sort of, dream came true. 30 00:01:35,282 --> 00:01:37,159 It's just been such a great fit. 31 00:01:39,870 --> 00:01:41,956 -So, you're gonna start to chablon today? -Yep. 32 00:01:42,039 --> 00:01:43,749 All right. How many batches are we doing for the day? 33 00:01:43,833 --> 00:01:44,917 We're doing about 20 today. 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,544 -About 20 batches? Fantastic. -[assistant] Yes, Chef. 35 00:01:46,627 --> 00:01:48,129 -Should get us through the weekend. -[assistant] Yeah. 36 00:01:48,212 --> 00:01:50,172 Are we gonna do milk flavors or dark flavors? 37 00:01:50,256 --> 00:01:51,507 -We're doing dark today. -Dark today? 38 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:53,092 -Yeah. -We're gonna be enrobing milk later on? 39 00:01:53,175 --> 00:01:54,593 -Yes, Chef. -Okay, wonderful. 40 00:01:54,677 --> 00:01:56,554 So, for the weekend, we wanna go into the weekend 41 00:01:56,637 --> 00:01:59,265 with having about four trays of this ready for us. 42 00:02:04,311 --> 00:02:08,774 We produce about 5,000 chocolate ganache squares daily. 43 00:02:10,526 --> 00:02:13,487 We utilize about eight tons of chocolate a year. 44 00:02:13,571 --> 00:02:19,660 We run about 20, 21 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. 45 00:02:19,744 --> 00:02:21,495 We have never been closed. 46 00:02:23,873 --> 00:02:28,210 This color comes out because of the, um, pistachio paste that we use. 47 00:02:31,922 --> 00:02:33,132 [Lauder] How's it look? 48 00:02:33,215 --> 00:02:34,759 -Nice and shiny. -[Lauder] Beautiful. 49 00:02:41,015 --> 00:02:42,892 This is my favorite flavor. 50 00:02:42,975 --> 00:02:44,643 I love the flavor. 51 00:02:44,727 --> 00:02:47,146 Um, the consistency on this is wonderful. 52 00:02:48,689 --> 00:02:51,609 For now, the ganache frame is on the peel. 53 00:02:51,692 --> 00:02:54,445 And she's gonna slide it over to the guitar cutter, 54 00:02:54,528 --> 00:02:56,113 and that's what we use to cut it into squares. 55 00:02:56,781 --> 00:02:59,617 Nice and slow. Just takes a little bit of pressure. 56 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:01,118 Not too much. 57 00:03:01,952 --> 00:03:06,457 And then we get 144 perfect little squares. 58 00:03:07,208 --> 00:03:08,209 Beautiful. 59 00:03:08,709 --> 00:03:09,710 Boom. 60 00:03:10,544 --> 00:03:13,923 We have the opportunity to do a lot of synergy items with films, 61 00:03:14,006 --> 00:03:16,258 and we kinda had this idea. 62 00:03:16,342 --> 00:03:20,638 Could we take the alien from Toy Story and make it into a chocolate piñata? 63 00:03:20,721 --> 00:03:24,433 They wear a blue and purple space suit. 64 00:03:24,517 --> 00:03:29,105 And so we have stars with blue and purple sprinkles. 65 00:03:29,188 --> 00:03:31,357 And then they'll be filled with treats. 66 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,111 It has essence. It has the embodiment of what we're trying to create. 67 00:03:35,194 --> 00:03:37,405 It feels like the character from the movie. 68 00:03:37,488 --> 00:03:39,448 It's, sort of, just become, like, a joke now. 69 00:03:39,532 --> 00:03:42,159 We have little arm movements that we do. "Essence!" 70 00:03:42,243 --> 00:03:44,829 Um, because when they get it, I get so excited. [chuckles] 71 00:03:44,912 --> 00:03:47,331 I get so excited. And I'm like, "Yes!" 72 00:03:47,415 --> 00:03:51,210 And, so, it kind of became this thing, but you gotta nail it. 73 00:03:51,293 --> 00:03:52,795 You know when it's right, and you know when it's not. 74 00:03:55,256 --> 00:03:57,883 The Ganachery to me, you know, has been a dream job. 75 00:03:57,967 --> 00:04:01,846 I just hope that if someone else is aspiring to be somebody someday, 76 00:04:01,929 --> 00:04:03,264 just know that you can. 77 00:04:03,347 --> 00:04:05,391 Um, you know, I was 13. It took a lot of work. 78 00:04:05,474 --> 00:04:08,561 You had to find your path, but you can make it happen. 79 00:04:10,062 --> 00:04:11,480 -Thank you. -[assistant] That's for you, sweetie. 80 00:04:12,023 --> 00:04:13,399 -[girl] I'm working here. -Oh! 81 00:04:13,482 --> 00:04:14,900 -Yeah. See? -[chuckles] She's working here. 82 00:04:14,984 --> 00:04:16,777 We got a new chocolatier on board. 83 00:04:17,778 --> 00:04:21,532 [Lauder] This is somewhere where your job is to make guests happy every day. 84 00:04:21,615 --> 00:04:22,616 Delicious, yeah? 85 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:23,826 [mother] Mm-hmm. 86 00:04:23,909 --> 00:04:26,245 [Lauder] To me there's only one place in the world you can do that, 87 00:04:26,328 --> 00:04:27,329 and that's with Disney.