Ganache Glamour
eBook
Introducing the Ganache Glamour Guide: Elevating Cake Decorating with Chocolate Artistry.
A comprehensive pictorial PDF guide that takes you through every step of decorating a cake with ganache—from start to when the cake reaches your customer. This guide is designed to help you master the art of working with ganache and create stunning, professional-looking cakes that leave a lasting impression.
Why the Ganache Glamour Guide?
- Visual Learning: With detailed images for each step, you will have a clear understanding of the techniques needed to fully decorate a cake, making it ideal for visual learners.
- Expert Knowledge: As a cake decorator/tutor with years of experience teaching students worldwide, I have included only the most practical, tested and trusted methods to help you decorate your cakes from start to finish like a pro.
- Comprehensive Process: This guide takes you through the entire cake decorating process, from the very first step of ganache preparation to the moment your customer receives their cake.
Ganache Glamour is available as a downloadable PDF, giving you the flexibility to access it anytime, anywhere. Keep it handy as a reference as you decorate, ensuring every cake you create is a masterpiece from start to finish.
Table of Content (80 pages)
- What is Cake Decorating?
- Different types of cake frosting
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- Equipment and Ingredients needed to decorate a cake
- Introduction
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- What is Ganache?
- Why Ganache?
- Types of Ganache
- Let’s talk White Chocolate Ganache
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- Ingredients used to prepare white chocolate ganache
- Tools needed to prepare white chocolate ganache
- Difference between double cream, whipping or heavy cream
- Storing your cream before and after use
- Types of white chocolate
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- Baking Chocolate
- Couverture Chocolate
- Commercial and Budget friendly white chocolate
- How to store your white chocolate
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- How to properly store your leftover ganache
- White chocolate Shelf Life
- How to prepare white Chocolate ganache
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- My preferred white chocolate ganache ratio
- How to properly decorate a cake using ganache
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- Drilling your cake board
- Materials needed to drill a cake board
- Steps to follow
- Cake structure
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- Stacking your cake layers
- Ganache application technique (Crumb coating and final coating)
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- Softening ganache
- Applying ganache
- Key Differences in scraping and smoothing
- How to use a scraper for effectively
- My preferred frosting technique
- Crumb coating using the pouring and base to top method
- Colouring ganache
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- Whitening chocolate ganache
- How to achieve pastel colour with white chocolate ganache
- How to achieve deep/vibrant colours with white chocolate ganache
- How to achieve black coloured ganache
- How to avoid colour maps on a ganache cake
- How to achieve sharp edges on a cake
- How to achieve flat top on a cake
- How to smoothen the sides of a cake after refining the top
- Adding final touches to a perfectly polished ganache cake
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- Stencilling
- How to use a stencil
- How to store your decorated ganache cakes
- How to properly box a tall ganache cake
- Transporting a tall ganache cake
- Troubleshooting ganache
- FAQs
