Mirror Glaze for cake

This is a recipe for the actual surface of a cake or other type of dessert pastry. It’s a bit tricky, but gives a very nice shimmering surface.

1 medium cake

Ingredients

10 g gelatin powder
60 + 75 g water
150 g glucose
150 g granulated sugar
100 g condensed milk
150 g white melted chocolate
Caramel color

Description:

  1. Mix glucose, sugar and water (60 g) in a saucepan and heat up to 103 degrees.
  2. Mix water (75 g) with the gelatin powder.
  3. Pour the chocolate into the sugar and mix until smooth.
  4. When the chocolate is melted, pour in the milk and mix.
  5. Pour the gelatin into the mixture and mix well.
  6. Strain the mixture to remove lumps.
  7. Mix in the caramel color. Use hand mixer if necessary.
  8. Let it cool to 30-35 degrees.
  9. Pour over the frozen cake.

Pairs with:

coffee.