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Generally, no one cares what colour the filling is, so I go with plain(er) on the inside, and pretty on the outside. For the sake of brevity (although, when am I ever brief? 😂) I won’t rehash it all here, but long story short, ganache is an emulsion of cream* and chocolate that can be used to cover a cake. The colour you’re trying to achieve will dictate how much whitener you’ll need to add. For example, if you’re trying to make pink ganache, you’ll need to cancel out quite a bit of the yellow from the chocolate, otherwise, you will end up with a more orange or peachy tone. The same goes for blue, if you leave too much yellow, you will end up with green. Water-based gel or paste food colourings are colourings most often used in cake decorating for colouring buttercream and fondant. They are highly concentrated colourings in a gel or paste base, so you generally need only very small amounts to get an intense colour. They’re the colourings I use most often for ganache, as I usually have a good selection of colours on hand.

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Once it’s all melted and smooth and lovely you can add in your food colouring. Start with a small amount, mix well, and add more if needed. You may need to add a little whitener first to counteract the yellow in the chocolate, depending on the colour you’re aiming for (see the sections above on whitening ganache and colouring ganache). As versatile as it is vibrant, our Purple pigment is an instant crowd-pleaser. From rich & regal to soft & sweet, it's a must-have colour f... Chocolate drip birthday cakes are still insanely popular, and a coloured ganache drip is a fun way to add a bit more pop to a cake design. I use a ratio of 3 parts white chocolate to 1 part cream for my drips (3:1 ratio). The amount of ganache you’ll need to make for your drip will depend on the size of your cake and how much of a drip you want to do, but a good place to start is with 120g of chocolate or candy melts and 40g of cream. Adding corn syrup will give the ganache a little more shine when it sets, but it is completely optional.

My preferred whitener to use is Chefmaster ‘liqua-gel’ white food colour, which is titanium dioxide in a glycerine base, and it blends in easily into the ganache. It’s also very concentrated, so not much is needed to get a good result. Americolor “white-white” gel colour is another popular option. The Colour Mill white oil colouring isn’t quite as concentrated but is great for when you just need to lift the colour slightly.

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Water and oil can’t mix together, so if half your buttercream is butter (fat) your gel colour (water) will only be able to dye the sugar, essentially only colouring half your buttercream - which means you have to use twice as much colour. Note: If you are using Colour Mill colours to dye, you do not need Booster. This product is designed to improve less effective products.Use it to work out the total amount of ganache you’ll need to fill and cover the cake (by putting in the height of the cake, number of layers of cake, and size of the cake). This will give you the total amount of ganache you need to make (if you are also filling the cake with ganache). Then change the number of layers to 0. This amount will be how much ganache you need to cover the cake, and this is the amount you will need to colour. this is why Colour Mill is so good . . . the formula is completely oil based, which allows the colouring to disperse properly through the sugar, eggs and butter to dye every part of the buttercream to allow deep, dark and vibrant colours

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Unlike standard gel colours, Colour Mill is an oil-based dye, allowing you to better colour buttercream, Swiss Meringue and even chocolate! The secret is in how the colour binds to butter, fat, and oil.Oil-based colourings, also known as chocolate colouring or candy colouring, are a great choice for colouring ganache. They are, of course, colourings in an oil base, and I find that these colourings blend nice and easily into the ganache, and it tends to be easier to get more vibrant colours. I also often add a small squeeze of corn syrup to the ganache drip, as it adds some nice extra shine. It’s totally optional though. The cream you need is known by different names in different countries. Here in NZ it’s just regular cream or whipping cream. In other countries, it may be known as heavy whipping cream, single cream or full cream. Basically, you need a pourable, unwhipped cream that is around 35% fat.

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In my opinion, couverture choc tastes better, but compound choc makes a more stable ganache (less likely to split or separate). I often use a combination of both types of chocolate. I cover this a bit more in the ganache FAQ post.By using an oil-based dye like Colour Mill the colour is able to be fully dispersed throughout sugar, butter, eggs, and oil. Colouring every element means your buttercream (or cake batter, meringue, etc) will have a deeper, more vibrant colour, with less colouring! perfectly suited for buttercream, ganache, Swiss meringue, chocolate, fondant, cream and cake mixes / batters yes, they're relatively expensive but they are really specialised colourings and the results are pretty amazing Colour Mill colours go through a specialised milling process that grinds the powder into an ultra smooth liquid, leaving you with a grain free paste with no aftertaste