Hi - I am making a graduation cake for my nephew and am looking for a really good chocolate frosting. I tried one last night using a regular buttercream recipe I got here and added some ganache to it. Well, it tasted awful! I just bought the powdered sugar but it almost tasted "old". The recipe was 1/2 cp butter, 1/2 cup shortening, 4 cups sifted conf sugar, 1 tsp clear vanilla. I added a cooled mixture of 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate and 1/2 cp heavy cream. The whole thing justed tasted so sugary and blah. Does anyone see anything wrong with this recipe? or maybe have a better one? I have used just plain ganache as a frosting before, but it seems to "seperate" from the cake as I cut into it so I thought adding it to a buttercream would be better, but I was not happy with this at all. Thank you so much for any advice you can give me.
i normally make this choc base called pooh, which i add to my buttercream.. but its expensive to make... and at the bakery i work at now.. for the chocolate base we mix crisco and cocoa powder and melt it together and i add that to my buttercream.. and its soooo good
the pooh recipe?.. yes its expensive to make coz you need alot of it to get a good chocolate taste....however the crisco/cocoa powder recipe... i actually just eyeball it... i meltmy crisco on the stove and then add it to my cocoa powder... you dont need alot of crisco either and the best is that u can keep the extra in a closed container .. its shelf stable 
ok let me find it and ill post it .... i just dont remember where i put it
I'd love to have it too!! thanks for doing this for us magentaa23!!
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