This indulgent recipe is something I came up with when I was short on time and ingredients one day. I’d baked a wonderful chocolate cake but hadn’t thought ahead about how to frost it (yes it happens to food bloggers too!). I had cream and chocolate, and this is the result. This ganache icing goes wonderfully with my Easy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes. It’s rich, creamy, and luxurious and can be thrown together easily, but makes an impressive presentation. I was making this for a family-friendly bake, but for grown-ups, add a couple of tablespoons of your favorite liqueur for an added indulgence.
What is ganache?
Classic Chocolate Ganache is typically a 1:1 mixture of chocolate and cream used as a glaze, icing, sauce, or filling for cakes and pastries. This recipe is my take on the original and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed!
What Cream?
The best cream for ganache is a cream with high-fat content, it helps bind everything together and set well. However, you can use semi-sweet, bitter-sweet or dark chocolate too. Heavy cream, whipping cream, double cream in the UK, and thickened cream in Australia are all fantastic alternatives.
Step by Step Instructions
In a small saucepan or the microwave, heat the cream just until hot. Place the chocolate and salt into a medium mixing bowl. When the cream is just hot (forming bubbles), pour it over the chocolate. Whisk until smooth. Allow to set and use to make truffles, ganache frosting or filling for cakes, to make chocolate tarts, or just serve as an easy chocolate dessert. The choices are endless! Erren’s Kitchen is written and produced for informational intentions only. We are not certified nutritionists, and the nutritional information found on this site has not been assessed or authorized by a nutritionist or the FDA. The nutritional information found in our recipes is offered as an estimate and should not be considered a guarantee or fact. The estimated data is provided as a courtesy and calculated through a third-party online nutritional calculator, spoonacular API. Although we do our best to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures should be considered rough estimates. Many factors, such as brands or products purchased and the nutritional fluctuations that naturally occur in fresh produce, can alter the effectiveness of the nutritional information in any recipe. Furthermore, various online calculators provide different results depending on their particular algorithms and nutrition fact sources. To obtain the most precise nutritional information in a provided recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the exact ingredients you are using when preparing the recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.
