Chocolate ganache is one of the most versatile and luxurious ingredients you can have in your kitchen. From cakes and truffles to tarts and cookies, the possibilities are endless. It's also surprisingly easy to make: all you need is chocolate and cream!
Our collection of 16 best chocolate ganache recipes will give you enough ideas to help you become a ganache master. You'll learn how to make a smooth, creamy ganache that can be poured or spread, and you'll be able to make a variety of chocolatey desserts with ease.
Whether you're a beginner or a professional chocolatier, you'll find something here that will delight your taste buds.
Baker Bettie
Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting
Whipped chocolate ganache frosting is an incredibly rich and decadent frosting that is a simple alternative to buttercream. A simple ganache mixture is whipped into an airy frosting creating something that resembles a very rich chocolate whipped cream. Use whipped chocolate ganache frosting to frost...
This recipe can be used to make chocolate truffles, tarts, lava cakes, and much more! If you want to use it as a glaze for a cake, you will probably want to thin it out with a little bit of warm cream so it will pour easily and provide even coverage. This recipe yields 20 oz of ganache, or about 2.5...
Indulge in a luxurious Espresso Chocolate Ganache Dip; it's easy to make in just 5-minutes. Use it as a dip for fresh fruit, bread, cheese, cookies, and more - or as a frosting on top of your favorite cake or brownies.
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Chocolate Ganache
Ganache is a mixture of chocolate and cream, melted together and used to glaze or fill a cake, whip into a fluffy frosting, or fill truffles. The simplest recipe is 8 ounces chopped chocolate whisked with 8 ounces hot heavy cream until totally combined and shiny; this ganache will be easily pourable...
This delicious, delectable chocolate ganache frosting recipe from Ina Garten is the ideal blend of creamy and sweet. For a quick day of baking, use to top Easy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes!
This sumptuous and velvety chocolate ganache can elevate any dessert with its rich, luscious texture and divine chocolate flavor. Create the perfect topping or filling for cakes, truffles, or other sweet treats!
This is going to be your favorite recipe to make easy chocolate truffles at home. I love making them as a fast and easy gift. Also, this is the recipe that you will want to use for frosting cakes and cupcakes. The firmness depends on the chocolate quality because the higher cocoa butter content, the...
Learn how to make chocolate ganache without cream! Make your chocolate ganache with milk instead. 3 simple ingredients! Learn how to make frosting with ganache, too! This recipe yields 1/2 cup of chocolate ganache.
Recipe video above. Made with just cream and chocolate, ganache is a baking staple with many applications that adds a spot of instant luxury! A pourable fudge sauce when warm, for glazing cakes or making drip decorations, to a spreadable and pipable frosting when cool, or for making truffles when co...
Best Low Carb, Coconut Milk Chocolate Ganache Cake Frosting
This recipe is for my Best Low Carb, Coconut Milk Chocolate Ganache cake frosting. Shiny, silky, and so versatile, you'll find excuses to use it on everything. I did. I even used it to coat my spoon!
Chocolate ganache is a versatile frosting with just two ingredients you can make for any cake, cupcake, or dessert. Use it as a frosting, drip, glaze, or piping. Here's my recipe, tips, and troubleshooting for you.
Chocolate Ganache for Truffles, Fillings, Frostings, Glazes, Fondue, Etc...
Make this ganache for truffles, cake frostings, glazes, fillings and many other uses. Made from only cream and chocolate, ganache can be used for so many things!