Need help from Bakers using semi sweet chocolate squares
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What is your recipe?
What do you add besides butter? My hubby always uses ganache recipe on top of cheesecake and it never cracks. It also has heavy cream. You are missing something that makes the chocolate too brittle. I would need to know the recipe you are using to give you further advice.
https://www.craftybaking.com/learn/ingredients/chocolate/problems-and-solutions
https://forums.egullet.org/topic/132519-cracked-ganache-on-desserts-why/
https://twospoons.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/guide-to-gloriously-smooth-ganache/
Check the end of the video: http://www.kraftcanada.com/recipes/chocolate-cake-roll-114780
I need to know how much chocolate you use, how much and what kind of butter you use and also if you add anything else to the chocolate. How do you melt the chocolate. I only bakers white chocolate right now and the only directions on the box just say how to melt it and it adds nothing to it. You need something else to keep it supple when refrigerated or frozen. There are the questions my hubby asked me to ask you, When he was younger he was a certified baker with Sara Lee and loves to make gourmet cheese cakes that take two days to make and weigh about ten pounds when done, so he does know the right ways to work with chocolate. If you could get me that information he could give you help with the hard topping cracking. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, but I was already down for the day when I was notified you had replied.
Hi Nancy,
for the 9 x 12 pan size, I use 3 semi-sweet squares of Bakers brand, was only adding butter and flavoring (peppermint). it has worked for years and years, I think from reading other replies that I realize this morning I was ''burning'' or overheating the chocolate. maybe that is the reason. (and I am getting much older !!!)
today added cool - whip with butter and chocolate squares and it looks good, tastes great.. will not know until later if it will crack when I cut into it to make the squares.
really appreciate your help here and your husband's ... all suggestions are welcome,![](http://cdn-fastly.hometalk.com/resources/design/emojis/1f914.png)