thread: How hard is ganache to work with??

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  1. #1
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    Oct 2006
    Sydney
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    Or you can just warm the knife while spreading. Works a treat. I don't find it difficult to work with.

  2. #2
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    Jul 2008
    Country VIC
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    awesome thanks girls, now whats a good recipe, I heard that you should use good quality chocolate, Is this true?

  3. #3
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    Aug 2003
    VIC
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    I usually use cadbury dark chocolate and full fat cream
    Some recipes say to use 50/50, others say 1/3 cream to 2/3 chocolate
    I usually do the 2/3 choc to 1/3 cream

  4. #4
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    Oct 2006
    Sydney
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    I usually do the 2/3 choc to 1/3 cream
    Me too. I have only made a white choc one though, for my white choc mud. I just follow the recipe, but I'm pretty sure that's the ratio.
    YES! Use good quality chocolate Makes all the difference. (Like using wine in your cooking, I'm told - use wine that you'd want to drink ) And same with mousse - I think a good chocolate mousse has GOOD chocolate in it!

  5. #5
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    Jan 2006
    Melbourne
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    I cheated and got my DH to ganache Flynn's cake - he is pretty handly with plastering so apparently it is the same-ish. Hot knife is best.

  6. #6
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    Jul 2008
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    lol rory rory that cracked me up

  7. #7
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    May 2007
    Perth, WA
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    I have major trouble with white choc ganache and no trouble at all with milk and dark choc. Thus, me thinks it has something to do with the cocoa fat content of the choc so a higher quailty one would work better (and taste yummier)....