"Chocolate Mirror Glaze Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Give your cakes the perfect mirror finish with this glaze."
Mirror Glaze made using few ingredients. Easy and simple glaze for cakes.
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Table of Contents
How to Make Mirror Glaze at Home
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Soak gelatin in 3 tblsp water for 10 mins.
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Mix cocoa powder, sugar in a sauce pan.
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Add in cream and water and mix well.
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Bring it to a boil. Keep mixing..
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Now add in gelatin mixture and whisk well till combined.
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Bring it to a boil once.
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Take it off the heat and strain the mixture.
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Place a plastic wrap so that it touches the glaze. This prevents a skin forming on top of the glaze.
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Place the glaze in fridge for 30 minutes to cool down.
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Use the cooled glaze on cakes.
Notes
- You can store the glaze in fridge for up to a month in a air tight container.
- Warm the glaze in microwave for few seconds to get the right consistency.
- You can use this glaze in cakes, mousse domes, cupcakes or on any dessert.
Storage
You can store the glaze in fridge for up to a month in an air tight container.
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Chocolate Mirror Glaze Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cocoa powder
- 1 ¼ cup Sugar
- ½ cup Cream
- ½ cup Water
- 1.5 tsp Gelatin
Instructions
- Soak gelatin in 3 tblsp water for 10 mins.
- Mix cocoa powder, sugar in a sauce pan.
- Add in cream and water and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil. Keep mixing..
- Now add in gelatin mixture and whisk well till combined.
- Bring it to a boil once.
- Take it off the heat and strain the mixture.
- Place a plastic wrap so that it touches the glaze. This prevents a skin forming on top of the glaze.
- Place the glaze in fridge for 30 minutes to cool down.
- Use the cooled glaze on cakes.
Video
Notes
- You can store the glaze in fridge for up to a month in a air tight container.
- Warm the glaze in microwave for few seconds to get the right consistency.
- You can use this glaze in cakes, mousse domes, cupcakes or on any dessert.
Storage
You can store the glaze in fridge for up to a month in an air tight container.Pictorial:
1)Take all your ingredients
2)Soak gelatin in water
3)Take sugar in a sauce pan
4)Add in cocoa powder
5)Mix well till combined
6)Add water
7)Whisk till combined
8)Now place it on heat and keep mixing till it comes to a boil.
9)Add in cream
10)Add in soaked gelatin.
11)Mix well
12)Place a strainer on a bowl
13)Strain the sauce
14)The mirror glaze is done
14)Cover with plastic wrap, make sure the wrap touches the glaze so it doesn't form a film on top.
15) Once it cools it is ready to use.
This is the cake in which I used the glaze
CHARMAINE luis
Dear Aarti,
Baked the cake with the frosting and glaze for my son's 18th birthday.
Followed the recipie to a T .....turned out super....everyone loved it ....and my friends mistook it for a cake ordered from a bakery .
Thank you for sharing your recipies, and knowledge for aspiring amateur cooks like myself