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Piping & Colouring Ganache
Hello,
I am new to the site, in desperation, urgently trying to find answers to make a birthday cake for my daughter’s birthday party this Saturday.
My questions are whether I can colour and pipe white chocolate ganache, other than using it to cover the cake? Would you also recommend Menier White Chocolate Patissier for making the ganache? If I can pipe the ganache, would I be able to pipe it straight onto the fondant icing?
Sorry lots of questions as I am taking baby steps in cake decorating 🙂
Thank you so much in advance!
Hello,
I am new to the site, in desperation, urgently trying to find answers to make a birthday cake for my daughter’s birthday party this Saturday.
My questions are whether I can colour and pipe white chocolate ganache, other than using it to cover the cake? Would you also recommend Menier White Chocolate Patissier for making the ganache? If I can pipe the ganache, would I be able to pipe it straight onto the fondant icing?
Sorry lots of questions as I am taking baby steps in cake decorating 🙂
Thank you so much in advance!
Thank you so much MIWL for your reply and invaluable advice! And thank you so much Paul for the brilliant tutorial on how to ganache and cover the cake. We finally made it. Went for proper white chocolate from Lakeland and it turned out perfect. However, I didn’t make enough, so as a last resort, I made more using Dr O but hit a little problem with oily ganache, managed to solve it with the recommendation from this brilliant community Q&A.
The children (and the parents) were “wowed” by the cake and my 3 year old loved it. All went well…and thank you again for everything. We are converted to ganache and will be experimenting with milk and dark chocolate next :-). Thank you so much!
Hello LB
Welcome to the site! There are lots of answers on the site which can be accessed by using key words in the search facility. An answer for colouring ganache exists here:
Ganache can be made with the Meniers white chocolate as long as you are happy with how it tastes. Any chocolate can be used so long as you like it. Any chocolate ganache can be piped as long as it is made to a piping consistency. In the above link there is instructions on how to colour white ganache.
Ganache can be piped directly onto fondant, it will set and harden to leave a lovely decoration.
When piping ganache the piping tube can sometimes become blocked as the ganache begins to set in the nozzle and bag. Use a coupler if possible for easy transfer to anothe nozzle. The ganache can be kept to piping consistency by resting it in a warm towel for a few minutes.
Don’t worry about too many questions, that’s what Q & A is for. Hopefully other members will also share their hints and tips so that you can make informed choices.
For ganache ratio chart take a peek here:
Happy birthday to your daughter, hope all goes well!
LB thank you for your feedback. I’m so pleased all worked out for you and congratulations on your achievement. All the hard work is so gratifying when your audience is WOWED! For more discussions on ganache just search in the searchbox ‘ganache’. I also have another blog on improving the shelf life of ganache here:
Good luck with your experimenting! x
