Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Recipe: How to Make Ganache

Raspberry ganache is a chocolate ganache with a raspberry component, whether raspberry preserves, seedless raspberry jam, freeze-dried raspberry powder, or raspberry purée. A typical chocolate ganache recipe consists of two ingredients: equal parts heavy whipping cream and dark chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, or white chocolate. Adding a raspberry ingredient to the heavy cream as it heats up infuses it with fruit flavor. Some recipes also call for corn syrup to help stabilize the ganache when adding a wet flavor ingredient, like jam or preserves.

Raspberry chocolate ganache should be thick, creamy, and slightly tart from the raspberry. Here’s how to use it in your favorite desserts:

1. 1. Flavor cheesecake batter: Make classic cheesecake batter, bake the graham cracker crust, and fill the crust as usual. Before baking the cheesecake, dollop spoonfuls of raspberry chocolate ganache on top of the cheesecake. In looping motions with a toothpick, swirl the ganache throughout the cheesecake.
2. 2. Fill French macarons: Scoop room-temperature raspberry ganache into a piping bag fitted with a large round tip and pipe the mixture onto the flat surface of one macaron. Top the filling with another macaron cookie and twist slightly to seal with sandwich cookies. Make the meringue cookie component using this French macaron recipe.
3. 3. Add to homemade ice cream. The texture of raspberry chocolate ganache is similar to that of hot fudge when frozen with ice cream. After the ice cream churns in an ice cream maker, swirl in room-temperature ganache by hand, so it retains the swirl. Freeze the ice cream in a loaf pan or freezer-safe bowl for a couple of hours before scooping and serving.
4. 4. Use it as frosting. Use ganache frosting on cupcakes, chocolate cakes, and brownies. Whip the chocolate raspberry ganache in a stand mixer—or in a large bowl with another electric mixer—until it’s light and fluffy. Ganache frosting recipes differ from traditional buttercream frosting recipes because they lack powdered sugar, butter, and eggs.