Chocolate Mirror Glaze Recipe For Cake
Adding a little light corn syrup karo syrup makes the chocolate mirror glaze extra shiny and stunning.
Chocolate mirror glaze recipe for cake. To stay up to da. Too hot and it won t be thick enough. Prepare chocolate mirror glaze. Chef dominique ansel s chocolate cake recipe is the perfect canvas for this dark chocolate mirror glaze.
Store the baked sponge in an. I admit that i m a little addicted to making mirror glaze cakes. It sets nicely over layers of biscuit chocolate mousse and rum syrup and keeps decorative swiss meringues in place for a truly decadent treat. Place the chocolate cake in the middle of the pan.
For the génoise half fill a large saucepan with water and bring to a simmer. Cover and place in the freezer overnight. Add the strawberry jelly in the middle on top of the mousse. Remove the smoothed buttercream cakes from the fridge or freezer must be fully chilled before glazing and place on a circular object on top of a large baking sheet to catch the run off glaze.
Grease and line two 20cm 8in springform cake tins with baking paper. You can make the sponge and the glaze mixture up to 3 days ahead but you ll need to apply the glaze on the day you ll be serving the cake. I like to rest the cake on a small cake pan or a wide and short glass. This recipe should make enough to glaze at least a dozen 10 inch entremets.
Add half of the white chocolate mousse on top and fill the edges. Hope you get to try it. Chocolate mirror glaze cake recipe chocolate hacks by cakes stepbystep how to make an easycake chocolateglaze at home for a mirrorcake. Begin pouring the onto the center of the cake then slowly work your way out to the edges.
This chocolate mousse cake with chocolate mirror glaze recipe requires a little bit of extra planning and lots of desire to make it. I usually make a mirror glaze cake recipe that is colored and marbled but i wanted to try my hand at a decadent chocolate mirror glaze cake recipe and i was so excited about the outcome. Stir the ingredients for the glaze don t whisk as this will create air bubbles. The temperature of the glaze has to be just right.
Preheat the oven to 180c 170c fan gas 4. Add the remaining half of white chocolate mousse and spread evenly. Pouring the mirror glaze over the cake. You can use dark chocolate for chocolate glacage or white chocolate for white or colored glacage.
Note that it will take quite some time to cool to pourable temperature up to 2 hours so you might want to make the glacage in advance. Store glaze in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 1 week. 500g enough to glaze an 8 inch cake. Chocolate mirror glaze is a shiny coating made from chocolate cocoa powder sweetened condensed milk and gelatin.
Too cool and it won t flow over the cake.