On 2018-10-25 5:32 PM, songbird wrote:
> graham wrote:
> ...
>> Then I made the muffins following a recipe from the British Bake-Off
>> competition. I followed the recipe very carefully. $7 worth of
>> pistachios and about $11 worth of chocolate in the mix and another ~$7
>> worth in the ganache!! The cupcakes were a bit dry and it took much more
>> chocolate to get the ganache to a setting consistency.
>> The results were unimpressive. However, I'm sure my grandson and
>> granddaughter will soon polish them off.
>> I shan't make that recipe again.
>
> ganache is just another version of truffle IMO...
> alter the cream content to suit the application.
>
> as for price for good chocolate TJs has it for
> about 4-6$/lb+ bar. well worth the price. we've
> been getting away from dark chocolate the past
> few years but when cooking/recipes call for baking
> chocolate a few squares of their dark chocolate
> bars work just as well (they have several %ages).
>
>
> songbird
>
In this case, the recipe called for milk chocolate, which I thought was
unusual. I bought Callebaut milk chocolate wafers.
I've had trouble with ganache recipes in the past and I reviewed many
recipes and it seems that for 36% heavy cream, one should use 2-2.5x
milk or white chocolate. The trouble with many recipes is that they
don't specify the chocolate content, nor the weight of the cream.