Chocolate Ganache recipe
Super delicious chocolate ganache made with cocoa powder and milk.
Yield: 1 cups
Calories: 125kcal
Materials
- ½ cup Cocoa powder use good quality cocoa powder
- ½ cup Granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp Corn starch
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tbsp Unsalted butter if using salted butter, then skip adding salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
Instructions
- In a saucepan, add all the dry ingredients - ½ cup cocoa powder, ½ cup fine granulated sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch and a pinch of salt.
- Mix all the ingredients together with whisk or spatula, make sure there are no lumps in cocoa powder and corn starch.
- Once everything is mixed well, add milk gradually. Give it a nice mix.
- Mix and mash with a spatula to break any lumps. When everything is mixed well, add the remaining milk and give it a nice mix.
- Place the saucepan on the heat and keep stirring it on low flame.
- After 7 to 8 minutes, the consistency of the ganache will start to thicken.
- Cook for couple more minutes and turn off the flame. Lastly, add a tbsp of butter and a tsp of vanilla essence in the saucepan.
- Give it a nice mix until butter blends with the ganache. At this moment, the ganache will be runny. But, once it cools down, it will become thick, kind of spreadable consistency.
- Transfer the chocolate ganache in a bowl. And use as needed. It can be immediately (after completely cooled down) used as a dipping for eclairs or doughnuts (donuts).
- Refrigerate for a couple of hours and it comes to a spreading consistency for your cakes and cupcakes.