Chocolate Ganache Wedding Cakes

Posted in: Various Flavors and toppings, cake design, cakes colors | March 10th 2010 | no comments

If you are planning a very sophisticated and delicious wedding theme for your special day, then you must definitely choose the Chocolate ganache wedding cake to impress and amaze your guests. Don’t know what the ganache is? Well, it is a French term used to define the delicious combination between cream and chocolate into one special ingredient. This particular chocolate cream was invented around the year 1850, in Switzerland or Paris, as some rumors wandered around the world about the ganache’s true origins. No one knows for sure, but this amazing cream continues to fascinate many brides and grooms who choose the Chocolate ganache wedding cake for their wedding.

The ganache is made from a hot cream, poured down on a sweet or bittersweet chopped chocolate. The final result, after the combination is smooth and velvety stirred, is absolutely breathtaking. The proportions of these two special ingredients: chocolate and cream has to be equal. But there are no rules and regulations regarding how much chocolate you can have on your wedding cake, except the doctor’s advice, therefore, depending on your personal taste, it can be balanced to chocolate’s favor, or vice versa.

You can also choose what type of chocolate do you like: white, dark or milky, but you can always add extra flavors made from special extracts: liqueur is a popular example. For creating a shiny and crystallized glaze you can pour oil, butter, corn or other syrup you love for the aspect and taste of the ganache’s final flavor.

For your Chocolate ganache wedding cake you can pour the mixture over the cake when it is still warm and liquid to obtain a smooth and fine glaze. You can use ganache just to cover the cake in a beautiful glaze, or you can create some interesting flowers or rosettes with the paste that you’ve got left. If you are looking for a tasteful and good quality of the ganache, you have to buy the most delicious and expensive chocolate. Your ganache will be more delicious and firm if the chocolate you picked for your wedding cake contains more cocoa butter than any other type of chocolate.

Before you cover your wedding cake with ganache you must cool the cake by placing it into a refrigerator for a while, so when you poor the cream won’t get a dull appearance. The Chocolate ganache wedding cake is often a good choice for a winter, autumn wedding day, or for an elegant, fancy, royal or classy wedding theme. The fabulous impression of your wedding cake will amaze every single guest of yours. The taste is almost incomparable with any other wedding cake flavors. The advantage of using this particular type of cake is that almost everyone loves chocolate therefore you won’t have any unpleasant surprises as many others had when some people disliked a certain type of ingredient or flavor.