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The owner of a bakery in Helsinki, Finland has found a way to save her store from financial ruin due to COVID-19
芬兰赫尔辛基一家面包店的老板发现了一种方法来挽救她的商店，使其免于因COVID-19而遭受的经济损失
by creating cakes that look like rolls of toilet paper.
通过制作看起来像一卷厕纸的蛋糕。
For us it's a game changer and I am relieved cause I know that all my employees are safe for months now.
对我们来说，这是一个游戏规则的改变者，我很欣慰，因为我知道我所有的员工现在已经安全了好几个月了。
Now staff say that as the coronavirus spread, customers started canceling orders as panicked consumers began to hoard toilet paper.
现在工作人员说，随着冠状病毒的传播，恐慌的消费者开始囤积厕纸，顾客开始取消订单。
This sparked the idea of a toilet roll cake. Real toilet paper ran out of stock in stores and one of our bakers said
这引发了一个手卷蛋糕的想法。我们的一位面包师说，商店里真的厕纸没货了
wouldn't it be nice to have a toilet paper cake on our counter?
在我们的柜台上放一个卫生纸蛋糕不是很好吗？
She suggested making a larger version than the real thing that could be cut in smaller pieces for the customer.
她建议做一个比真品大一点的，可以为顾客切成小块。
So they made five cakes which sold out within a few hours.
于是他们做了五个蛋糕，几个小时内就卖完了。
They started to take photos of the cakes and upload them to Instagram and Facebook and became an instant hit on social media.
他们开始给蛋糕拍照，上传到Instagram和脸书上，并在社交媒体上一炮走红。
The cake's core is made out of oat batter surrounded with passion fruit mousse filling and covered with white fondant.
蛋糕的核心是用燕麦糊做成的，周围是西番莲果冻馅，上面覆盖着白色软糖。
The bakery now has hundreds of orders and extra people have been hired to keep up with demand.
这家面包店现在有数百份订单，另外还雇了人手来满足需求。
And my husband is having birthday tomorrow, I thought that this is perfect cake for you.
我丈夫明天就要过生日了，我觉得这是你的完美蛋糕。
Everyone is so interested in this cake and it has somehow become the picture of the crisis. It's so nice.
每个人都对这块蛋糕如此感兴趣，它不知何故成了危机的写照。太好了。
Novelties such as specialty cakes are reminders that a little levity in times of crisis go a long way to helping people cope during difficult times.
像特色蛋糕这样的新奇事物提醒人们，淡化危机在帮助人们度过危机方面有很大作用。
Julie Taboh VOA news
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