How to make chocolate icing

What can be more delicious than chocolate icing on a cake or cakes? Probably only the stuffing itself. Many sweeties prefer their homemade delicacies to purchased cakes and rolls. And so many are interested in how to make chocolate icing at home. Because it is the glaze that gives the bake a complete and elegant appearance, and its taste qualities also leave no one indifferent.

As a basis, you can take cocoa or milk chocolate. A ready-made coating for confectionery products should not be hotly poured on the cake, but that the mass is evenly distributed throughout the dish (cake, cake), it is necessary to pour the glaze into the center, and then using a knife or scapula to stretch it around the edges.

How to make chocolate icing from cocoa? For this option we need: 2 tablespoons. Cocoa, sugar - incomplete glass, hot milk - about 4 tablespoons, creamy (soft) oil - 70 gr. Combine the cocoa and sugar, gradually adding milk. It is necessary to constantly mix the whole mass, so that there are no lumps. Then the resulting mixture is put on fire and cook until it acquires a liquid creamy consistency. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add gently oil. Mix everything as it should, allow to cool slightly and you can water the products.

How to cook chocolate icing directly from the chocolate itself? For this recipe, we take a few other ingredients: about 100 grams of chocolate, butter - 50 grams, powdered sugar - glass, milk - 5 tablespoons, cocoa - 3 tbsp. Spoons, a little starch and vanilla sugar. In a saucepan (or in another container) you need to pour the milk and add the powdered sugar. Put on the heat and heat until the sugar has melted. Gradually add the chocolate in pieces and butter. Then we wait until the chocolate melts. Stir, add cocoa and starch. Mass must be constantly mixed, otherwise lumps are formed, which will negatively affect the quality of the glaze.

You can recommend a tasty glaze made of white chocolate. In this case, we take the following ingredients: white chocolate - 200 grams, powdered sugar - 170 grams, milk - 2 spoons. Chocolate in a water bath melt, then add one spoonful of milk, and then powdered sugar. Gradually add another remaining spoonful of milk, whisk the mass with a whisk. That's the whole simple way how to make chocolate icing from white chocolate.

There is another way to prepare this dessert. To do this, take:

• For chocolate sauce: finely chopped bitter chocolate - about 150 grams; Water - 250 grams; Sour cream or fatty cream - about 125 grams; Sugar - about 70 grams;
• For the glaze itself: cream - 80 grams, bitter chocolate - about 100 grams, cream unsalted butter - 4 teaspoons, chocolate sauce - 110 grams.

How to make chocolate icing? To do this, mix the ingredients for the chocolate sauce in a saucepan, put on a fire and, constantly mixing, bring to a boil. Reduce heat (make it minimal), stir with a wooden spoon until thick. The stirring time is about 10 minutes. Then we take the icing. In a saucepan, pour the cream and bring to a boil, gradually add the chocolate. Remove from heat and stir constantly. Put the butter and pour the chocolate sauce. Again, as it should be mixed, and the glaze is ready.

We figured out how to make chocolate icing from cocoa, white, dark and bitter chocolate. The prepared dish should stand for a while in the refrigerator. From the glaze you can make various decorations for cakes, cakes and other confectionery. To do this, you can drip a few drops of alcohol in the glaze, and then quickly mix. The optimum variant of density is when the glaze drips from the spoon slowly. Frozen glaze says about a small amount of alcohol, you need to add more. How to cook chocolate glaze for hearts, mesh and other ornaments? Everything is exactly the same as described above. To create a picture, you can take a thick paper, pour the icing in a pastry bag (you can pour and straight from the spoon, but in this case, difficult drawings can not be depicted) and, squeezing out, make patterns.