One of the easiest ways to decorate home desserts is to decorate the icing. Depending on what result you plan to get at the outlet, the glaze can be cooked on a variety of bases, resulting in a thicker or flowing mixture, glossy or matte, rich black or even colored. In this article we have collected the most notable recipes of mirror chocolate glaze, which is ideal for thin coating of cake.
Color mirror glaze for cake - recipe
Ingredients:
- gelatin instant - 10 g;
- water filtered - 140 ml;
- sugar white - 145 g;
- invert syrup - 145 g;
- chocolate white (qualitative) - 145 g;
- evaporated milk - 110 g.
- the dye is a few drops.
Preparation
Powdered gelatin soak for a while in 50 g of cold purified water. In the ladle we pour the remaining water, pour sugar, add the syrup and put it on the fire. Warm the mass to a boil and complete dissolution of the sugar crystals.
Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate, mix it with condensed milk in a deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Next, pour the syrup into the chocolate mixture and stir. Gelatin is heated to dissolution and poured into the rest of the ingredients. Add a few drops of gel dye and mix. You can use a blender.
Now strain the glaze through a fine strainer to get rid of air bubbles, cool it down to 30 degrees. If you want to get liquid glaze that will drain around the edges of the cake, you need to cool the mass to 30 degrees, and to cover the whole cake 32-35 degrees.
Before you cover the cake with a mirror glaze, it is ideal to hold it for one hour in the freezer.
White mirror glaze for cake - recipe
White glaze can be made, both on the basis of ordinary powdered sugar, and with the addition of white chocolate, which, of course, improves its taste and makes it smoother, silky, and accordingly the appearance of the finished product becomes perfect.
Ingredients:
- chocolate white - 135 g;
- cream 33-35% - 110 ml;
- milk - 110 ml;
- vanillin - pinch;
- gelatin - 1/2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Before you make a mirror glaze on the cake soak gelatin in a small amount of purified water. Milk and cream poured into a saucepan and set on medium heat. We warm the milk mixture to a boil, remove it from the fire, lay the chocolate broken into pieces and stir until it dissolves completely. Then add vanillin, soaked gelatin and mix it, so that it also completely dissolved. We give the white mirror glaze for the cake to cool to a temperature of forty degrees, and we cover it with dessert, having first filtered through the strainer.
Recipe for a mirror chocolate coating for a cake
Ingredients:
- chocolate - 55 g;
- cocoa powder 85 g;
- cream - 85 ml;
- water filtered - 150 ml;
- granulated sugar - 255 g;
- gelatin - 10 g.
Preparation
First of all, soak in water 10 grams of gelatin according to the recommendations on the package. Mix the sugar in the ladle with cocoa powder, pour in the cream and 150 ml of water and, stirring, bring to a boil and immediately remove from the fire. Throw the broken dark chocolate and soaked gelatin and stir well until complete dissolution. Now strain the mass through a strainer and cool to room temperature.
We place the cooled cake on the grate and cover it with a mirror glaze. Immediately shift the cake to a dish and send it to the refrigerator for at least two hours.