Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rich icing made of chocolate and cream heated and stirred together, used also as a filling, as for cakes or pastry.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From French ganache (Wiktionary)
- French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word ganache is French, and before it was applied to a mixture of chocolate and cream, it meant “cushion.””
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“If you find the ganache is getting too sloppy, cover it closely, put it back into the fridge, wash your hands, dunk them in ice water, dry them completely, give it a half an hour, repeat the washing, dunking drying sequence and get back at it.”
“A selection that they do have online, however, is a big package of Foil-Wrapped Mini Easter Eggs. In nine different flavors - a mix of milk, dark and white chocolates with fillings that range from hazelnut to chocolate praline to Pop Rocks in ganache (not sure if this is in all the assortments, but it was in two different ones I got at the store) - this is a really great variety pack.”
Leonidas White Chocolate Easter Duck, reviewed | Baking Bites
“Racheli Jan 26 so cute! chocolate ganache is my fav”
Flirty Aprons’ Frosted Cupcake Apron, reviewed - and a giveaway! | Baking Bites
“At first I was nervous, because I've never had good results when ganache is involved in the frosting recipe.”
“Let sit about 30 minutes, or until ganache is spreadable.”
“Let sit about 30 minutes (or cool in an ice bath for 5 minutes) until ganache is spreadable.”
“Put the chocolate in a medium bowl and pour the hot cream over it, stirring slowly, until the ganache is smooth.”
“The ganache is actually rolled into the dough in a swirl, the same way a cinnamon filling is rolled into a cinnamon raisin bread.”
“Spread over cheesecake while ganache is still warm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ganache’.
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
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• Words I often hear at my workplace
We don't know much of each other. (And this is probably why we still like each other.)
Add a word you hear at your workplace, and increase the mistery.
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Chocolate Passion
Words related to my favorite addiction, chocolate!
chocolate, algarroba, alkali, bean, bittersweet, bloom, cacao, cocoa, tempering, cocoa powder, fermentation, pod and 50 more...
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Fruit, Sex and Other Morsels
Because drippy passionfruit, and he was pricked pineapple but sometime around cherry durian blond twins started persimmon, lychee papaya and before we knew it, quince plum mango mango and O O O Ora...
sweetsop, canistel, velvet apple, sticky, viscid, ganache, damson, rambutan, papain, fruit bat, spread, cream and 6 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Mélange
doggerel, odsbodkins, platitudinous, ennui, strappleberry, stygian, inchoate, incipient, deleterious, gnarled, troglodyte, interlocutor and 96 more...
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the omnibus
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Evin290's Words
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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confectionary
sweet things.
peppermint, candycane, strawberry, ganache, pocky, creampuff, sugardrop, cream bun, toffee, chocolate, sprinkles, cupcake and 11 more...
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Wordies for a Foodie
Included are many Italian dishes that so many pronounce wrong. Which is highly annoying since no one ever even tries to pronounce them right!
tarragon, rosemary, thyme, mint, sprig, aromatic, radicchio, chicory, macaroon, parmagiana, pesto, arugula and 13 more...
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Food of the Gods
Indeed it is. Words related to chocolate production. :-)
chocolate, cocoa, cacao, semisweet, bittersweet, nib, theobromine, theobroma cacao, bean, criollo, forastero, trinitario and 27 more...
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food words
mirepoix, chanterelle, confit, saucier, roux, bouillabaisse, santoku, muffuletta, turducken, en papillote, struffoli, compound butter and 42 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ganache.
milosrdenstvi "Once, on Captain Ahab's ship, they served and ate chocolate ganache for a birthday celebration. They called it the place of whaling and ganache-ing of teeth."
Unoriginal to me; ultimate source unknown Jun 27, 2011