Mirror Cake Recipe

Mirror Cake Recipe

How To Make Mirror White Chocolate Glaze

This brightly glimmering cake glaze is creamy, colorful, and easy to make with gelatin, white chocolate chips, condensed milk, food coloring of your choice!

Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking: 10 minutes
Chill Time: 1 hour
Total: 1 hour 15 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 1cupglucose syrup,or corn syrup
  • ¾cupcondensed milk,sweetened
  • cupsgranulated sugar
  • cupwater,plus an additional ½ cup for gelatin
  • 2cupswhite chocolate chips
  • 0.7ozgelatin,(2 envelopes)
  • food coloring,preferred color
  • 1tbsptitanium dioxide,or bright white food coloring
  • glitter,optional

Instructions

  1. Bloom the gelatin by mixing the gelatin into ½ cup of cold water, and letting it sit for at least 5 minutes.

  2. Heat the granulated sugar, corn syrup, and ⅔ cup of water on a stovetop to a boil.

  3. In a bowl, combine the white chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and solidified gelatin.

  4. Pour the hot sugar mixture over the chocolate, condensed milk, and gelatin.

  5. Cover with a cloth until the chocolate is soft.

  6. Mix thoroughly until all the chocolate is completely melted.

  7. Add desired color and titanium dioxide to the hot mixture. Mix until there are no air bubbles.

  8. Let the mixture cool to 90 degrees F, then pour it over the frozen cake.

  9. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

This recipe works best on a cake covered in a frozen mousse, but will also work with a cake covered in frozen buttercream frosting.

Nutrition

  • Calories: 384.65kcal
  • Fat: 10.77g
  • Saturated Fat: 6.55g
  • Monounsaturated Fat: 3.05g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.36g
  • Carbohydrates: 69.78g
  • Fiber: 0.06g
  • Sugar: 67.94g
  • Protein: 4.60g
  • Cholesterol: 12.45mg
  • Sodium: 56.96mg
  • Calcium: 139.03mg
  • Potassium: 208.40mg
  • Iron: 0.16mg
  • Vitamin A: 16.70µg
  • Vitamin C: 0.64mg
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