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Thin chocolate glaze?
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> On Mar 16, 11:03 am, Eddie Grove > wrote:
>> "JMF" > writes:
>> > I have now seen something twice, and I'm wondering if anybody can tell
>> > me
>> > how to do it (e.g. a recipe):
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>> > A friend bought a chocolate cake from a world-champion (literally, he
>> > claims) pastry chef, which was basically ganache, the whole cake. The
>> > cake
>> > had a chocolate glaze, all around (top and sides) -- like, say, a
>> > Sacher
>> > Torte. Except that this was a very, very thin glaze, and certainly not
>> > hardened at all.
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>> > Then I saw this kind of thin glaze again on another occasion.
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>> > I make a chocolate cake with a ganache layer on top, and it occurred to
>> > me
>> > that that this kind of thin, not-hardened glaze would be a nice thing
>> > to do
>> > for it. But the only glaze recipes I know about give you a rather
>> > thicker
>> > glaze, whereas this one seems to be millimeter thin, almost liquid --
>> > and
>> > yet somehow manages to be "set" at the same time.
>>
>> > Can somebody shed some light on this?
>>
>> > John
>>
>> I haven't tried this, so I am just guessing, but I plan to make this cake
>> soon. I saw something nearly identical on Tyler's Ultimate show, and
>> found
>> it by googling on the glaze.
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>> http://www.thatsmyhome.com/chocolate...ate-cloud-cake...
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>> Check the chocolate glaze in that recipe.
>>
>> Eddie- Hide quoted text -
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> I tried that and I made a bit of a mess of it. I hope someone else had
> better luck.
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> Adam
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Try this
http://www.frenchpastrychef.com/past...ay.shtml#Photo
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