Making a batch of ganache can make your desserts taste so much better. This chocolate sauce can be useful in so many different ways. You might have made the sauce with a specific purpose, but perhaps you made too much. When you have a lot of leftover ganache, what are you supposed to do with …
Ganache
Chocolate ganache is a luscious, velvety concoction that combines chocolate and warm cream. It’s delicious as a cake topping, a sauce, a dessert filling, or even a base for truffles. If you’ve made a ganache, it’s no fun to see that it’s not glossy. Why does ganache not turn out shiny? Chocolate ganache is shiny …
If you’re making a chocolate ganache, you probably imagine a sleek, elegant topping for a torte or a luscious, thick filling for truffles. So, it’s disappointing when you’re faced with a bowl of lumpy, grainy chocolate swimming in fatty liquid. Why does chocolate ganache sometimes turn out chunky? Chocolate ganache turns chunky or grainy because …
There are so many kinds of frosting and icings out there that it takes a culinary degree to know how to make them all perfectly. If you aren’t a professional pastry chef (or maybe even if you are!), you may occasionally find that your frostings, icings and ganaches are a little too runny or not …