"Hi Melanie,
I (and almost everyone I know) use Australian whipping cream - it is 35% fat - for all ganache recipes . . . no problems.
As for sourcing couverture: Callebaut is a good product to start with and can be sourced relatively cheaply…"
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Australian ingredients
HiI currently live in Oz having moved from the UK and as much as I love chocolate I am a total amateur compared to you guys. So please bear with me as I ask a few probably stupid questions.Firstly, back home we have single, double and whipping cream and for ganache I used double cream which is what most of the UK recipes state. Over here they say cream or pure cream. Woollies have really expensive Pure cream and then the usual thickened cream. Aldi also stock double cream. I usually make…See More
Melanie Marsh joined Clay Gordon's groupChocolate Down Under
This group is for ChocolateLife members living and working in Australasia (Australia, NZ, PNG, Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, etc).See More
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