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You don’t need to temper if you’re simply adding melted chocolate into a batter, mousse, or ganache. How Does Tempering Chocolate Work? The process involves controlling the melting, cooling, and reheating of chocolate within specified temperature ranges depending on the kind of chocolate. ...
-Either black food coloring or dark chocolate ganache.-Depends on your taste. This will cover the cube. Black food coloring tends to dye mouths purple and a ganache can be shinier. However, you might achieve more of a black by using food coloring. More on this later. -Fondant-I highly ...
A note about toppings: Chocolate ganache also makes a gorgeous topping. However, it’s especially important to take the testing step when using ganache, because you’re aiming for a goldilocks-zone temperature (not too hot, not too cool, just right). It needs to be warm enough to flow we...
There are many ways to top a cake. You can drizzle it with a glaze or smoothly coat it withganacheorbuttercream, for example. Getting the frosting right is not too hard, but decorating a cake for a particular occasion (e.g. a birthday or celebration) can present a bit more of a cha...
A chocolatier shares her Chocolate Making Tips so you can make the best homemade chocolates. Learn how to choose the right chocolate, melt it properly, and use it to create decadent candies. Learn how to make modeling chocolate (candy clay) and how to fi
How to Make Chocolate From Scratch: Chocolate is a food that is simultaneously ubiquitous and mysterious. Chocolate is everywhere - in cakes, in candies, in beverages. Yet few people really know how chocolate is made. Even fewer have actually set their e
Next, move on to baking that cake… How to Make The BEST Carrot Cake Shred the carrots. I find the quickest and easiest way to shred carrots is in the food processor with the grater attachment. Don’t have one? Don’t stress. You can use a good old-fashioned box grater instead, ...
with chocolate ganache over the top. Ganache is just melted chocolate with cream, and it gets shiny like glass. With the rum icing–again, I get it’s a buttercream to make the cake smooth (as a crumb coat) and a icing on the top. Check out the “fondant fancies” from the Great...