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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. From colour packs to individual bottles , you can find Colour Mill oil-based colourings to elevate your cake decorating game. Colour Mill colours are also put through aspecialised micro-milling process which means it is both grain and streak free! You want the ganache to be runny enough to drip down the side of the glass, but not run right down the bottom and form a puddle. Plus, for those who like to learn by watching, here’s a video showing you how I made each of the different colours of ganache covered in this tutorial.

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Now it’s time to let the ganache set, this helps with the consistency and also the colour sometimes deepens slightly overnight (generally not enough to make a noticeable difference, but I like to check it the next day anyway). This risk is reduced when you start with dark chocolate ganache and only use the black ganache on the outside, but some staining is still likely, so it pays to make people aware of this when they’re choosing their cake colours. By using an oil-based dye like Colour Mill the colour is able to be fully dispersed throughout sugar, butter, eggs, and oil. They are highly concentrated colourings in a gel or paste base, so you generally need only very small amounts to get an intense colour.If you’re new to making coloured ganache though, I highly recommend reading through the post first as you’ll get a lot of extra tips and info along the way! This growing range of fantastic food colours was founded on a need for better colours beyond the usual tired and dull ranges available. 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.

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I also often add a small squeeze of corn syrup to the ganache drip, as it adds some nice extra shine. Start with a few drops of colouring, and add more as necessary to get the colour shade and intensity that you want. Colour Mill is perfect for use inbuttercream, ganache, Swiss meringue, chocolate, fondant, cream and cake mixes / batters. I’ve seen some people say they’ve had ganache split when using gel colourings, I haven’t had this happen to me personally, so there may be other factors at play here. If you’re making something else and are still not sure, why don’t you take a look at our Oil-based vs Water-based article and better understand the difference.If I’m just doing a partial drip like this cake, then I do the drip first and then just spread some ganache on the top. 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). To combine properly with ganache they need to be mixed into a small amount of cream first, to make a paste.