Ganache (, ;[ "Ganache". Merriam-Webster Online, accessed 27 July 2023] ) is a glaze, icing, sauce, or filling for pastry, made from chocolate and cream.
In the broad sense of the term, ganache is an emulsion between (melted) solid chocolate (which is made with cocoa butter, the fat phase) and a water-based ingredient, which can be cream, milk or fruit pulp.
Preparation
Ganache is a chocolate preparation containing cream. The ratio between these ingredients varies across preparations depending on the final purpose of the ganache. A 1:1 ratio will produce a relatively hard ganache appropriate for icing or filling foods. More chocolate makes a "heavy" ganache, appropriate for making truffles; more liquid makes a thinner, "pourable" ganache that can then be whipped.
In preparing a ganache, cream and sometimes butter are heated. If the ganache is being infused with flavorings such as herbs or a tea, they are added to the boiling cream and left to steep for several minutes. After this, liquid is added to bring the ganache to its pre-boiling volume. The heated cream is added to chocolate, left to stand for a few minutes, and then stirred to combine. Finally, Liqueur or flavored pastes are sometimes added.
History
Ganache was said to have been created accidentally in the 1850s in Paris at a confectionary shop owned by
Paul Siraudin, after an apprentice spilled cream on chocolate, prompting his master to call him "ganache" (meaning "idiot").
Ganache or
crème ganache was originally sold as a kind of chocolate truffle.
['Jeanne', "Correspondance: Jeanne à Florence", Journal des Demoiselles 37: 27 (1869)] Siraudin named the sweet after a popular
Vaudeville comedy debuted in that year by his contemporary
Victorien Sardou called
Les Ganaches ("The Chumps").
[ Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edition online, 2015, s.v.
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Other ganache-like sweets were probably made earlier. Jordan & Timaeus sold chocolate combining cocoa paste, sugar and fresh milk in 1839 in Dresden.
Gallery
File:Blueberry Papaya Cucumber Juice and Chocolate Cake with Ganache 1.jpg|Ganache being poured atop a cake
File:PBfudge ganache.jpg|Peanut butter fudge covered in ganache
File:Chocolate cake with ganache frosting.jpg|A chocolate cake with ganache frosting
File:Ganache.ogg|A video of making ganache
See also
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Enrobing — a chocolate coating process
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Chocolate tempering
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