Vent: That cookbook that broke my spirit and my countertop

I tried making a layered chocolate cake from the 'Bake Like a Pro' cookbook last Saturday and it went completely sideways. The ganache was supposed to set in 20 minutes but instead it slid right off the cake and pooled all over my new quartz counter. I spent 45 minutes scraping sticky chocolate out of the grout lines and the cake still ended up looking like a collapsed building. Has anyone else had a recipe completely betray them like that?

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richard_west56d ago

I switched to using a chilled marble slab for the ganache and it set up in like 8 minutes flat. Saved my counter from another chocolate flood.

aaron1976d ago

Wish I had that before my marble counter learned what melted chocolate looks like.