Ready-made mirror glazes
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With a ready-made mirror glaze you can achieve a flawless high-gloss finish on cakes and entremets without complicated mixing. This category offers ready-to-use mirror glazes in gold, red, purple and iridescent red, a neutral mirror glaze for colouring yourself and chocolate glazes: the chocolate mirror glaze in a 1 kg tub and brown chocolate-flavoured mirror coatings in a 300 g pot. Neutral cake glaze for fruit tarts and Swiss rolls completes the range. Mirror glazes are ideal for mousse cakes, entremets, cheesecakes, petits fours and the Christmas yule log, giving them a professional finish in just a few minutes.
How to get the mirror shine
- Frozen base: pour the glaze over the well-frozen cake so it sets straight away into a smooth layer. Cakes coated very smoothly with ganache or buttercream also work, as long as they are frozen through.
- Check the temperature: the coloured and neutral glazes and the chocolate mirror glaze are warmed in a bain-marie to 50 °C and poured at 45 °C, which is warmer than most homemade glazes, so follow the instructions on the pot. The brown coating, by contrast, can be used cold or slightly warmed. A thermometer is worth it, as the shine depends on the right temperature.
- No air bubbles: stir without beating in air and strain the glaze through a fine sieve if needed; the dessert sits on a rack.
- Colour and marbling: tint neutral mirror glaze with water-soluble gel colour, or let two colours run together for a marbled effect.
Frequently asked questions
How much cake does a 300 g pot of mirror glaze cover?
The gold and iridescent red glazes are enough for 6 small individual desserts or a yule log 25 to 30 cm long; dilute them first with 20 g of water. The brown chocolate-flavoured mirror coating covers a cake 16 cm in diameter.
When is neutral cake glaze better than mirror glaze?
For fruit tarts and Swiss rolls: the cake glaze is not heated but brushed on thinly at the end. It adds shine, stops apples or bananas from browning and even works on canapés.
More products are in the Mirror glaze category, shimmering touches for your glaze in the Glitter & shimmer category and recipes in our pies and desserts recipes.