ganache - Cupcake Project https://www.cupcakeproject.com/tag/ganache/ Baking and dessert recipes for cupcakes, cakes, muffins, pies, and everything in between - from perfected classics to new and adventurous indulgences Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 /wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Cupcake-Project-Favicon.png ganache - Cupcake Project https://www.cupcakeproject.com/tag/ganache/ 32 32 The Complete Guide to Chocolate Ganache https://www.cupcakeproject.com/chocolate-ganache/ https://www.cupcakeproject.com/chocolate-ganache/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:06:41 +0000 https://www.cupcakeproject.com/?p=18043 You can easily make amazing chocolate ganache using two ingredients – chocolate and heavy whipping cream. It takes five minutes to make using either a range or microwave, and goes so well with just about every dessert.

The key to making it the right consistency for your particular dessert is knowing both the ratio of chocolate to cream to use and the temperature the mixture should be at. I delve into all of the details here.

Ganache dripping from a spoon

Depending on the amount of cream used, ganache can be moist (like the filling for chocolate truffles) or stiff (like a cupcake frosting). It’s most commonly used as cake filling, a poured glaze, a spread or piped frosting, a decorative drizzle, as the base for truffles, or as a bonbon filling.

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I don’t want a ‘plain chocolate cupcake’. I want a phenomenal, rich, delectable, ‘better than sex’ chocolate cupcake. Milk chocolate? White chocolate? Dark chocolate? All of the the above. Not EVERY cupcake needs to have an unusual flavor or a quirky ingredient. There’s no reason that traditional has to mean boring. If I wanted a boring chocolate cupcake, I’d got to the store and buy a box mix and do it myself. I want the Cupcake
Project version.

This was my friend’s demand and I couldn’t let him down. I had to create a Better than Sex Cupcake that lived up to his hopes.

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