Have this rich chocolate ganache ready in 15 minutes – a beautiful glaze made with whipping cream and semisweet chocolate to top your cakes with!
Chocolate Ganache
- Prep Time 5 min
- Total 15 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 2
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup whipping (heavy) cream
- 6 oz semisweet baking chocolate, chopped
Instructions
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Step1In 1-quart saucepan, heat whipping cream over low heat until hot but not boiling; remove from heat.
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Step2Stir in chocolate until melted. Let stand about 5 minutes. Ganache is ready to use when it mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon. It will become firmer the longer it cools.
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Step3Pour ganache carefully onto top center of cake; spread with large spatula so it flows evenly over top and down to cover side of cake. Glazes 13x9-inch cake or top and side of 8- or 9-inch two-layer cake.
Nutrition
120
Calories
8g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
9g
Total Carbohydrate
8g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 120
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 13%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 25%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 5%
- Sodium
- 5mg
- 0%
- Potassium
- 65mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 9g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 8g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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