You can’t eat it, but you can hang it in the tree: the sausage bread Christmas bauble from baker Floris van Lieshout from Tilburg. Normally he is busy making bread and pastries all year round, but now he is also busy selling a real collector’s item.
They are flying over the counter like hot cakes: the sausage bread Christmas ball. About eight hundred people at the Floor van Lieshout bakery indicated that they would like a typical Brabant delicacy for the Christmas tree. Although it is not meant to be eaten.
“It’s really great. It looks like the real thing,” a lady responds enthusiastically as she unpacks the box in the store. “This is it: the limited edition of the sausage roll. This one is for my daughter. She has a Christmas tree full of objects that she likes or likes. This sausage roll fits in well,” says another lady. “It’s typical Brabant, isn’t it? We are proud of that,” says another customer of the bakery.
Van Lieshout already sells vegetarian, mini and regular sausage rolls, but a Christmas bauble was not yet in the range. He had three thousand pieces made. “My girlfriend hangs all kinds of Christmas baubles in the tree. Croissants, cakes. That’s where the idea for the sausage roll came from,” Floris explains.
But isn’t a classic Christmas tree much more beautiful? “Actually, yes. But I’m not leaving this Christmas bauble here. It’s going home with me. We don’t actually have any room left, but we’ll make an exception for the sausage roll,” a woman laughs. “Nowadays we fill the tree with these kinds of decorations. So I don’t mind,” says another lady.
Although the Christmas baubles seem to be popular, Floris does not yet know whether he will also have sausage bread Christmas baubles made next year. “We want to create something special every year. It will be a challenge to surpass this.”