Ganache

Quick meaning: Ganache is a noun meaning A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

Meaning

A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To coat with ganache.
2. (historical) A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.
3. (obsolete) A fool

Example Sentences

to ganache the sides of a cake

The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!

She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.

M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither .

Word Forms

• ganaches
• ganaching
• ganached

Synonyms for ganache

Depending on context, synonyms include garnache.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include truffle, gianduja, demiglace, couverture, gianduia, demiglaze.

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