Whipped Ganache: Attempted
Happy Birthday, Lonnie!
(+5 skill points => 340/400)
(+5 skill points => 340/400)
Happy Birthday to my co-worker and cake-buddy Lonnie. He asked me the other day if I've found us a good chocolate icing yet. I told him I think it'll be whipped ganache. Well, that didn't quite work out like I expected. Instead I used my runny mess as a crumb coat and then made chocolate IMBC with it. After one slice of cake, I felt like I ate a whole chocolate bar.
Stats:
- 8" round Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mix
- base coat in milk chocolate whipped ganache
- filled with Oreo mousse
- iced with chocolate IMBC
- shell and rosette borders with tip #22
It took a lot of stirring and re-heating in the microwave to get everything melted. I let it rest on the counter overnight before trying to whip it.
Cakecentral.com members told me to use the whisk attachment so it could incorporate air into the ganache.
Um. I don't think it worked. I might have used too much cream? Maybe I should have used semi-sweet chocolate instead? It was way too runny to ice a cake with it. Bah!
Defeated, I quickly whipped up a batch of IMBC and added some ganache to it for some chocolate icing instead. Then I had the idea to use the left over runny stuff as a crumb coat to give the cake another chocolate boost. I still have yet to really take the time to smooth out the sides of a non-crusting iced cake. It's hard!
I've been wanting to branch out on some piping skills. I used IMBC with a thicker tube to make the message first, then I used tip #2 with ganache to pipe on top. It looked kinda neat and different.
Shells and rosettes. I need to learn some different borders!!!
FAILs:
- runny ganache
- still trying to smooth and IMBC cake
- was too chocolatey with the ganache + cake + filling + icing ... made my stomach ache a little! I hope no one else's did!
- was nice to try different message piping
- ganache makes a good crumb coat
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