Chocolate Glaze for Cake

Cooking method

1. Step 1:

   

   How do you make chocolate glaze for a cake? Gather all the ingredients. For the glaze, you can use baking, dark, milk, or bittersweet chocolate. Aerated chocolate or chocolate with various add-ins won't work here. The sour cream and butter should be high-quality so the glaze comes out with the right consistency and flavor. You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar depending on how sweet your chocolate is.

2. Step 2:

   

   How do you melt chocolate? Break it into pieces and put it in a bowl. You can melt it on the stove, in a water bath, or in the microwave. Make sure the chocolate doesn't overheat — in a water bath the bowl shouldn't touch the water, and in the microwave use short bursts on medium power. If the melted chocolate comes out too thick, thin it with a spoonful of hot water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add the butter to the bowl of hot chocolate and stir until smooth and glossy. Stir gently so no air bubbles form, since they can affect the final result when you apply the glaze.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add the sour cream and stir until smooth. It should drip easily off the spoon.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add the powdered sugar to the bowl of glaze. It's best to add it in small portions — you may not need all 110 g (it depends on the sweetness of the chocolate). Stir the glaze after each addition. The powdered sugar should be very finely ground, or you'll feel the grains in the finished glaze. If that does happen, warm the glaze a little in a water bath, stirring, until smooth.

6. Step 6:

   

   Cover the bowl of glaze with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. During this time the glaze stabilizes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Take the glaze out of the refrigerator and leave it at room temperature for ten minutes so it warms up and loosens a little. The finished glaze should be 35–40°C.

8. Step 8:

   

   The chocolate glaze is ready and you can apply it to the surface of the cake. If the surface comes out a little uneven, just warm a cake spatula or knife and run it over the surface until you get the result you want.