Chocolate Ganache recipe (2024)

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This is an easy chocolate ganache recipe that is delicious and perfect to use whenever you need a heavy dose of chocolate. It can be used in frosting, as a sauce or even a filling. as a Save this to Pinterest now so you can always find it!

What is Chocolate Ganache

A chocolate ganache recipe is a mixture of chocolate and cream. Usually it is a 1 to 1 ration; however, I find a thicker ganache more useful and tend to make it in a heavier ratio. It is lightly heated together and a silky and smooth chocolate mix that can be used in frosting, as a topping, a drop or a filling. I find it a little too runny to be used as a filling between the layers of a cake but it could be perfect for something like a cream puff. Sometimes people will mix in additives like a liquor or use a variety of different types of chocolates to make it. For our purposes, we are going to make the simplest form of ganache.

The ingredients for a Chocolate ganache recipe

To make Chocolate Ganache you will need heavy cream and chocolate. You can use milk chocolate, dark chocolate or even white chocolate. However, it is important to use high quality chocolate when making the ganache. I have used Ghirardelli Chocolate Chips and Chocolate Melting Wafers to make this. I find the melting wafers melt easier but the chocolate chips make for a thicker ganache.

Sometimes you will find recipes that include other ingredients like butter and corn syrup. Whether or not you end up including those is really dependent upon the purpose of the ganache. Butter can help make it sweeter and something like a corn syrup will help it work better as a bakery glaze. Again, this will be just the basic ganache recipe.

Some recipes will include butter, which gives the ganache a beautiful sheen, corn syrup, which can sweeten the ganache and help it set up as a glaze, salt, and/or flavorings and extracts.

How to make chocolate ganache

Add the chocolate to a heat safe bowl and set aside. Then heat the cream over a low flame just until it starts to simmer. Pour the cream into the bowl of chocolate and then cover the bowl and let it rest. About 5 minutes is good enough. Whisk together and you are done.

Using the chocolate ganache

While the chocolate ganache is hot, it is pourable and is perfect over ice cream, brownies, doughnuts, pancakes, cakes where you prefer a glaze and more. When it is at room tempature it will begin to firm up and then you can use it to flavor cake frostings, frost cookies or fill pastries.

Storing and reusing chocolate ganache

This chocolate ganache recipe is easily stored in an airtight refrigerator for up to one week. It might get a film on top of it that can be removed or place a piece of parchment paper on top of it to keep it from forming the film. You can also freeze this for about one month. To use it again, remove it from the refrigerator or the freezer and let it come to room temperature. If you are whipping it into something then you can use as is. If you want it hot again, reheat for about 10 seconds at a time in the microwave. Don’t go over 30 seconds. You can also put it back on the stove on low.

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