Jeni's Chocolate Ganache

Submitted by Amanda Beth

"I named this for my sister-in-law, Jeni, after our misadventures making ganache. The recipe actually comes from the Pillsbury Cookbook. It's the easiest recipe ever, and is delicious, too! I always put it on my birthday cake. Cook time is chill time."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped or 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1⁄2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon butter

directions

1. In a small saucepan, over low heat, combine chocolate and cream.
2. Mix and melt together, until chocolate is completely melted, and mixture is smooth and creamy.
3. Remove saucepan from heat and stir in butter.
4. Refrigerate 1-1/2 hours, or until cold, stirring every now and then.
5. With wooden spoon or mixer, beat mixture until thick and creamy, and of desired spreading consistency.

Reviews

[Greeny4444]

I made half a recipe of ganache. Like another reviewer, I didn't follow the directions, but I mainly wanted the amounts of cream to chocolate. I boiled the cream in the microwave in a glass measuring cup (about 1 1/2 minutes on HIGH), then I poured the chocolate chips and butter in the hot cream. I let the mixture sit about 5 minutes, so the chips could melt, then I stirred it all up. I put in fridge to harden, so I could decorate the top of a chocolate peanut butter torte (#355398). It took about an hour to harden enough so I could put it in a ziploc baggie and pipe it on the torte. My husband was eating it out of the measuring cup. Hehe! This is an awesome recipe. Thanks for posting it!

 

[tanial72]

I also heated the cream and butter in the microwave, then added the chocolate. I used half and half because its what I had and Ghiradelli semi sweet baking chocolate. It didn't get as thick as it would have had I used heavy cream but it was yummy that way. I used it to pour over the Cake Mix Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake from this website. 5 of us ate almost the whole cake in one sitting.

 

[Anoushka]

If you are using good chocolate (like Lindt or Girrhardelli), a cup is about 150g (1 bar and half) of chocolate. <br/>If you are doing what some reviewers suggest, warming the cream and butter and then pouring on the chocolate (best way to avoid over cooking), make sure the chocolate is chopped very finely.<br/>If you are using chocolate with more than 70% cacao, you'll need to add sugar. Learn from my mistake and use real sugar, not icing sugar which has corn starch in it and it turns your ganache in a nice (very tasty) gew but not icing!<br/>The quality of your chocolate will make a huge difference. Go for the real thing, not Baker or No Name...

 

[VikingJuice]

God Bless You for posting this fabulous EASY recipe. I have looked high & low for an easy ganache recipe and finally found it here. The only thing I did differently was to let it set out in the pan for just about half hour and then poured on my cake. Thanks once again for taking the time to post this.

 

[pdx_penguin]

Excellent! I frosted the cake with it, then put raspberries on top. Melted the ganache to a liquid consistency and then drizzled it over the top. It got rave reviews from my friends, I will definitely make this again!