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Posted at October 27, 2015, 11:00 am:

I'm looking at a chocolate cake recipe here and it says to make

chocolate mouss
Ganach
Chocolate butter crea
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Then it says to place 1st layer cake and spread: ganache then chocolate mousse on top.

Then place 2nd layer cake. refridgerate.
Then spread: layer of butter cream then layer of ganache on top of that
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I'm kind of confused in the order that this is going
Can butter cream be used as the icing on the final layer of the cake as well as the ganache? I guess what I'm not understanding is the proper usage of butter cream vs. ganache. Or is there such thing? Can you just put whatever you want in the middle and on the outside of the cake when baking?

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