Ganache consists of cream and bits of chocolate. This sweet liquid serves as an important filling or spread for many pastries including cakes.
When you use ganache, you might miscalculate the amount needed for your pastry. In such instances, you are left with a lot more ganache than you actually need.
But instead of dumping the cream into the trash, there are many things that you can do with your leftover ganache. If you have the right recipes, the ganache can turn many dishes into incredible desserts.
Do you want to find new ideas for your leftover ganache? Here are some tips that might improve your use of this chocolate cream.
Things to Do with Leftover Ganache
Below are some easy recipes that you can try with leftover ganache.
1. Make Chocolate Truffles
Since you have some leftover ganache, you should make some chocolate truffles. Apart from standing as an easy dessert, they come with a reasonable amount of sweetness. Now here’s the recipe for some chocolate truffles.
Ingredients
- Leftover Ganache
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
Recipe
- Add some cocoa powder to a bowl
- Remove the ganache from the fridge.
- Take out an icepack and cover it with paper towels.
- Chill your hands by placing them on cold packs.
- Spoon some ganache and roll it into balls.
- Continue rolling until you have the desired amount of balls.
- Roll the balls in cocoa powder. You can even use crushed peanut or icing sugar.
- Serve with coffee.
2. Make Some Banana Cake with Ganache
Leftover ganache also goes with banana cake. When you throw in some salt, you will a delightful dessert. Before you can enjoy this cake, you should use the following steps.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Unsalted butter
- Baking Soda
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Ground cinnamon
- Ripe banana, mashed
- Large eggs
- Brown sugar
- Buttermilk
- Pecans
- Leftover Ganache
Recipe
- Use medium heat to cook the butter in the saucepan.
- Swirl the butter until you find brown milk solids at the bottom of the pot.
- Remove the butter and milk solids from the pot
- Place them in the refrigerator for an hour
- Insert a rack into the oven
- Heat the oven until it gets to 350°F
- Apply some butter to the cake pans. Then fix some parchment into the pans and butter them.
- Add some flour to the pans
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and baking powder in a medium bowl.
- Get another bowl and mix the buttermilk with mashed bananas.
- ‘Mix the brown butter and sugar with a mixer for 5 minutes. By then the mixture should have a light, fluffy texture.
- Add eggs into the butter and sugar mixture and beat them slowly
- Pour in the flour, banana/buttermilk mixture, and pecans
- Share the batter between the baking pans. Then smoothen with the spatula. Remove any bubbles by tapping the containers.
- Bake the cake for 35 minutes. Leave it on the rack and allow it to cool for 10 minutes. Then take out the cake from the oven, remove the paper, and cool ( for the second time) for 10 minutes.
- Take one of the cake layers and cover the top with ganache. Spread the cream on the surface by using a spatula.
- Place another cake on the first layer and spread some ganache. Repeat the same process with the last cake.
- Add a little salt to the top of the cake.
- Cover the cake with a dome for 24 hours and serve.
3. Make some Doughnuts
You can use leftover ganache on donuts. To make them taste better, add some peanut butter cups with peanut butter.
Ingredients
- Flour
- Baking Powder
- Sugar
- Salt
- Vanilla extract
- Milk
- Egg
- Peanut butter
- Mini peanut butter cups, chopped
Recipe
- Heat the oven to 325°F
- Apply oven spray to the oven and wipe out any excess.
- Mix the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a bowl
- Get a separate bowl and add the vanilla, milk, and oil. Then mix the ingredients. Also, add the mini peanut butter cups to the mix.
- Pour the batter into a large bag. Then place the batter into the holes of a donut pan.
- Bake the donuts for 10 minutes. Then allow the donuts to remain in the pan for 5 minutes. Remove the donuts from the pan and allow them to cool.
- Take out the ganache and dip the donuts for up to five minutes.
- Melt some peanut butter with oil in the microwave until the butter melts.
- Pour the melted butter over the chocolate-coated donuts.
4. Spice Fudge Cake
You can spice up your fudge cake by covering it in delicious ganache. Luckily, this dessert does not require you to have professional baking skills.
Ingredients
- Flour
- Cocoa powder
- Boiling water
- Bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- Granulated sugar
- Butter, unsaltedPurpose flour
- Light brown sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Salt
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Eggs
Recipe
- Heat the oven to 350 F°
- Melt the butter and whisk it with the cocoa powder.
- Coat the inside of the pan with the butter/ cocoa powder mixture.
- Place the chopped chocolate in a bowl and pour boiling water over it. Leave the chocolate for a minute. Then whisk it until it has a smooth texture.
- Get a separate bowl and mix the flour, salt, confectioner, sugar, and cocoa powder.
- Use a measuring cup to measure to mix the vanilla and eggs. For this task, stick with light strokes.
- Use an electric mixer to mix the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar. Also, combine the egg mixture to this mix. Then add the chocolate mixture and mix.
- Mix all the ingredients until you get a well-combined batter.
- Bake the batter for about 45 minutes. Then allow the cake to cool for an hour and a half.
- Wait for the cake to sink, place upside down on a plate. Leave for two hours to cool properly.
- Get the leftover ganache and drizzle the cream over the cake.
5. Try Some Billionaire Bars
Billionaire bars include delicious shortbread, cookie dough with ganache, and caramel sauce. Although they don’t look large, this treat will interest any lover of ganache.
Ingredients for the Shortbread
- Heavy cream
- Vanilla extract
- Sugar
- Brown sugar
- 2 sticks of butter
- Flour
- Salt
Recipe for the Baking the Shortbread
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Then cover the pan with cooking spray and parchment paper.
- Mix the butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 2 – 3 minutes.
- Add and combine the flour and salt to the butter mixture
- Keep the dough in baking pans and bake at 350°. This part of the recipe takes between 30 – 35 minutes.
- Allow the shortbread to cool and set
Ingredients for the Caramel Sauce
- Heavy cream
- Butter
- Fine sea salt
- Sugar
Recipe for the Caramel Sauce
- Heat the sugar until it melts. As it melts, swirl the sugar
- Continue swirling the sugar until the sugar changes to dark amber.
- Add the butter and stir till it melts completely
- Remove the pan from heat and pour in the heavy cream.
- Throw in some salt and allow it to cool.
- Pour the caramel sauce on the shortbread
- Cool the pastry in the refrigerator until the sauce sets.
Ingredients For the Cookie Dough
- Butter
- Sugar
- Heavy Cream
- Granulated sugar
- Brown Sugar
- Flour
- Salt
- Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Recipe for the Cookie Dough
- Beat the sugar and butter for 2 – 3 minutes.
- Combine the butter with vanilla and heavy cream. Then mix the ingredients
- Add flour and salt and mix at a slow speed. Also add the mini chocolate chips
- Spread the cookie dough on the caramel layer. Then smoothen the layer with a spatula.
- Get the leftover ganache and pour it over the caramel layer.
- Chill for 30 minutes until the ganache sets.
- Cut out the shortbread in bars and serve
Wrapping Up
Ganache is a perfect ingredient for many pastries. If you have some of this delicious cream, you can use it in donuts, cakes, and shortbread. Besides, you can eat it as a spread with bread.
There are tons of recipes for the leftover ganache. Since the cream works with many desserts, you might even create your recipe.
But before you use leftover ganache, try storing it properly. You can start by keeping the cream in an airtight container and store it in the refrigerator. If handled correctly, the ganache should last for more than a month.
