I bake a cake nearly every week – as you can see by my blueberry cake recipe and my cinnamon cake recipe. My cakes need a sugar free icing and so I made ganache. Ganache is a flavoured cream made with chocolate and fresh cream, sometimes with butter added. It is used to decorate desserts, to fill cakes or sweets and to make truffles or petits fours. It was created in Paris in about 1850 at the Pâtisseri Siraudin (Larousse Gastronomique)
© ganache
Ingredients:
- 100mls double cream
- 225g semisweet chocolate, broken into pieces
Method:
- bring the cream to the boil
- remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate
- mix until it has melted completely
- leave to cool but do not let it set
- whisk until it is pale and thick
Cooks Notes:
to use for icing a cake do not whisk it - stir before pouring over the cake
Recipe from Lavender & Lime Blog ALL RIGHTS RESERVED http://tandysinclair.com
Tandy
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Looks sooooo good!
thanks!
Hmmmm where’s mine?oxox
*quickly calls the post office* mwah!
I don’t enjoy butter icing at all; it’s far too sweet for me. Ganache on the other hand…yummy!
most times I just melt a bar of chocolate and pour it on top
Yummy
all finished last night otherwise I would be having this for breakfast!