graham wrote:
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> 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