Mirror Coat Recipe

The checklist and tips you demand for pastry perfection

Diet Facts (per serving)
424 Calories
16g Fat
68g Carbs
5g Protein
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Diet Facts
Servings: viii to 10
Amount per serving
Calories 424
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16g 20%
Saturated Fatty 9g 45%
Cholesterol 20mg 7%
Sodium 82mg 4%
Total Saccharide 68g 25%
Dietary Cobweb 0g 0%
Total Sugars 67g
Poly peptide 5g
Vitamin C 1mg iv%
Calcium 142mg eleven%
Iron 0mg 1%
Potassium 194mg 4%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells yous how much a food in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a mean solar day is used for general diet advice.

(Nutrition data is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

Mirror, mirror, mirror glaze, which is the shiniest of the cakes? Unless you live under a culinary social media rock, you've definitely scrolled by post later on postal service of cakes enrobed in various hues of beautifully-colored glazes—so sleeky it would make your gel nails jealous. Behold the mirror glaze!

Turned into a viral sensation in 2016 by Russian pastry chef Olga Noskova, the magnificent mirror glaze game continues to agree strong. It recently started popping upwards on people's radars, but glaçage miroir is really a classic French technique that dates dorsum for ages.

Information technology is typically used for mousse cakes and entremets every bit you need a super smooth exterior to get the full reflective outcome. Seemingly intimidating to make, information technology is quite simple. The trick is pouring it at the right temperature. With a working temperature of between 90 F to 94 F—yes, you demand to accept a thermometer for this i, my cloak-and-dagger is pouring information technology as soon as it reads 94 F. This style one time the coat hits the block it will all the same be within working range, allowing for fourth dimension to polish things out before information technology sets up.

So, go out your favorite gel food colors and let'southward get glazing! This recipe is for the coat simply, you will demand a thermometer, immersion blender, fine mesh sieve, as well every bit a fully assembled and frozen overnight mousse cake or entremet. We have establish success using this with a buttercream block, merely you must ensure the exterior cease of buttercream is ultra smooth and the block is thoroughly frozen.

"I dear using mirror glaze on mousse cakes for a fancy, glossy finish. The end product should be shiny plenty to see your reflection! This recipe was piece of cake to follow and the white chocolate gives it a nice sweetness." —Tracy Wilk 

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  • 1 tablespoon + ii teaspoons powdered gelatin

  • one/4 cup cold water

  • 2/3 cup condensed milk

  • one/two loving cup + ii tablespoons warm water

  • one 1/2 cups granulated sugar

  • 2 1/iii cups finely chopped white chocolate

  • one teaspoon pure vanilla extract, optional

  • Gel nutrient coloring, optional

  • 1 frozen mousse or cake

  1. Get together the ingredients

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  2. Flower the powdered gelatin: Put the cold h2o in a pocket-sized bowl. Sprinkle the powdered gelatin over the water. Quickly stir using a small whisk or fork until information technology starts to thicken. Set aside and let it sit to fully gel, most 5 minutes.

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  3. Meanwhile, whisk together the condensed milk, warm water, and carbohydrate in a minor pot. Bring to a simmer over medium-loftier heat.

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  4. One time the mixture reaches a simmer, turn off the estrus and whisk in the bloomed gelatin until fully dissolved and no clumps remain.

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  5. Allow the mixture sit for ii minutes, then whisk together until polish. Whisk in the vanilla excerpt, if using.

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  6. Place the white chocolate in a basin. Pour the hot liquid mixture through a fine mesh sieve over the chocolate.

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  7. Completely submerge the immersion blender into the glaze and blend without raising above the glaze to forestall air bubbles from forming. If using food colour, add together a couple drops at a time until desired color is reached. Blend thoroughly.

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  8. Transfer the glaze into any type of pouring vessel like a heat-proof quart container or heat-proof liquid measuring loving cup. Permit it sit down, giving it a stir every 5 minutes until the glaze reaches 90 to 94 F on an instant read thermometer.

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  9. While you await for the glaze to absurd, ready your glazing station. Line a canvas tray bigger than your cake with a piece of parchment paper. Place a pint container or bowl upside down on superlative of the parchment. Use something sturdy as this volition human activity as a platform for your block and get in easier to clean the edges one time glazed.

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  10. One time the glaze has reached 94 F, accept your block out of the freezer and place on top of the upside-downwards bowl or whatsoever you are using every bit your "platform." Pour the glaze over the cake starting from the eye. Go on to cascade in a round motion outward. Once all the sides are coated gently, tap the canvas tray on the counter to milk shake off whatever excess glaze.

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  11. Let the cake sit for one to 2 minutes until the glaze is completely set. Employ a small paring pocketknife to trim off any coat drippage and so use a large first spatula to gently transfer the cake to your serving platter.

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Recipe Tips

Feel gratuitous to have fun with your mirror glaze, get creative by trying out diverse techniques:

  • Dissever the mirror coat into 3 or more vessels for pouring and use a different color in each ane. From here, you can either pour the glazes separately one on top of the other in varying amounts and unlike motions like stripes or abstract directly on top of the cake OR you can pour a little of a second color into the vessel of your base color, then a tertiary on top of the 2nd, a fourth, and so on.
  • Exercise not mix the colors together in the bullpen, just pour information technology straight onto the block once yous take all your colors in any pattern of your choosing for a cool marbling result.
  • Try using a hair dryer! Once you lot have poured your glaze in the colors and pattern of your choosing, use a pilus dryer with a flat nozzle attachment and blow absurd air at a 45° angle in one direction or more for an abstract look.

Storage

  • Mirror glaze can be made in accelerate and reheated. You tin can besides scrape any extra mirror coat off the parchment paper and save it in an closed container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
  • Only retrieve if you are using multiple colors, it may non be a desirable color after it all gets mixed together.
  • To reheat, place the glaze in the microwave and heat at half power in thirty second increments, whisking and breaking it upwardly in between heating until it's all melted down. Use the immersion blender to give information technology a quick blend to brand sure it's polish before using. And don't forget to take the temperature!