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    Chocolate Glaze

    Source of Recipe

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    List of Ingredients

    3 tablespoons heavy cream
    3/4 cup granulated sugar
    1/2 cup water, plus
    1 1/2 tablespoons water
    1 1/2 ounces Dutch-processed cocoa powder
    1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin (or 1 1/4 sheets of sheet gelatin)

    Recipe

    In a large saucepan, combine cream, sugar, 1/2 cup of the water and the cocoa.
    Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer whisking often until very thick like hot fudge sauce- 8-10 minutes from beginning of simmer.
    Watch carefully so miixture doesn't boil over.
    remove pan from heat.
    While mixture cools bloom gelatin in 1 1/2 tbl of cold water.
    melt the bloomed gelatin over very hot water or in the microwave.
    (If using sheet gelatin, soften for 5 minutes in cold water, wring out gelatin and whisk into chocolate mixture).
    Whisk gelatin into chocolate mixture and strain the glaze through a medium sieve into a metal bowl.
    Let glaze cool at room temperature until thick but still pourable, about 5-10 minutes.
    Pour glaze over your cake.

 

 

 


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