mirror glaze

I'm so happy to be able to share this recipe today with you. After many trials of which some of them really annoyed me because it didn't turn out at all like I wanted it, I have figured out the best way to create a mirror glaze cake and I will share it with you. There are ready to use mirror glaze mixtures in the supermarkets available now and from the description it looks like it's totally simple and you don't have to pay attention to anything. Believe me, this is a wrong impression. There are a few very important things to pay attention to if you really want a smooth and shiny mirror glaze cake, but don't be afraid I will take you step by step through the process.

First of all you need to bake the cake. As the mirror glaze shows all flaws of the top surface of the cake it's really important the surface is super smooth and without any bumps. The best way for this to create a mousse cake in a silicon mold. In this case I used a half sphere mold*, but you can also use a different shape, just make sure the geometry does not have any dips where the glaze can not flow off. My favorite brand for silicon molds is Silikomart*.

For the mousse I tried several different recipes, which all had different issues. Some didn't taste to great or did not stiffen completely as intended. Others are not good to freeze (which you have to do later) and unfreeze, because they lost a lot of fluid when they unfreeze.

Now it's time to prepare the actual mirror glaze. 

Now you pour the mirror glaze through a sifter to get rid of the air bubbles and divide it in several bowls to dye it with different colors. A drip of white food color* in addition to the other food colors* gives it a more solid and not so see-through look. Now it's important you pour the different colors again together into one bowl to have the same temperature and pour it later together over the cake. It will not work if you pour it separately, because the first color would cool down already to much on the cake. After you added all colors into the bowl don't marble it to much, because it will blend quickly together. Now it's time to unmold your cake and put it onto a glass or bowl on a pan or any other dish to collect the excess mirror glaze. In the meanwhile the mirror glaze can cool down to about 40-42°C. It's important you use a thermometer* to check this temperature precisely. If the mirror glaze is still to hot it will flow right off the cake, is it to cold it is sticking to fast and is not giving you a smooth surface. If the first trial is not working out in your favor (I speak out of experience) you can just peal the mirror glaze off the cake, freeze it again for a moment and try it again. 

When the glaze is cooled down to 40-42°C it's the right time to just pour it over the cake till you have to marbled effect you desire. Make sure to stop pouring early enough when the whole cake is covered completely, because if you go on with pouring the glaze will not get a smooth surface. If you paid attention to all of this things you should now have a perfectly reflecting, marbled mirror glaze cake :-) 

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