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Chocolate ganache

Name: Chocolate ganache
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 400 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 ml cream; 200 g dark chocolate

A chocolate ganache is a mixture of cream and chocolate made while hot. This gives a kind of paste which solidifies somewhat as it cools but remains fairly soft.

This is the filling used in many chocolates.

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Duration

15 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: January 25^th 2022

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

For 400 g, you will need:

1 200 ml cream
2 200 g dark chocolate
Total weight: 400 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

5 min.

Cooking

10 min.

All in all

15 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 10 min.

Pour 200 ml cream into a pan over medium heat and bring to the boil.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 5 min.

Break 200 g dark chocolate into pieces and tip them all at once into the cream.

Stir gently with a maryse...

Stage 3

...until the mixture is smooth and evenly mixed.

Your ganache is ready. Leave to cool until it reaches the required consistency. The colder it is, the firmer it will be.

Remarks

The proportions for a ganache are very simple: half cream and half chocolate.

Chocolate lovers will enjoy adding a little coffee (2 tablespoonsful, or 1 teaspoonful of instant coffee powder or granules) to the ganache to boost the flavour even more.

You can also add a vanilla pod to the cream to flavour the ganache.You will note that this ganache is not sweetened, if you want a sweeter taste, you can reduce the proportion of chocolate a little and replace it with milk chocolate, or sweeten the cream to your taste.

Keeping: A few days in the fridge.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	2 g RDI=4 %	33 g RDI=13 %	30 g RDI=41 %	414 kcal RDI=21 %	1,733 kJ RDI=21 %
Whole recipe	10 g RDI=15 %	134 g RDI=51 %	120 g RDI=164 %	1,656 kcal RDI=83 %	6,933 kJ RDI=83 %

Whole recipe

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk

How much will it cost?

For 400 g

2.20 €

Per Chocolate ganache

0.05 €

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

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