Food and Recipes Desserts Cakes Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling Be the first to rate & review! Add a chocolate ganache filling to any layer cake for extra decadence. By Southern Living Test Kitchen Southern Living Test Kitchen The Southern Living Test Kitchen has been publishing recipes since 1970, four years after the first issue of Southern Living Magazine appeared on newsstands. The Southern Living Test Kitchen team includes a team of professionals with deep expertise in recipe development, from pastry chefs and grilling experts to nutritionists and dietitians. Together, the team tests and retests, produces, styles, and photographs thousands of recipes each year in the state-of-the-art test kitchen facility located in Birmingham, Alabama. Southern Living's editorial guidelines and Pam Lolley Pam Lolley Pam Lolley developed and tested recipes for Southern Living Magazine in the Souths most trusted Test Kitchen for 19 years. She worked closely with the editors planning and packaging stories, collaborating with art and photo teams on food styling and recipe reproduction to ensure reader satisfaction, content quality control, and recipe authenticity history and cooking. Her area of expertise was baking and and pastry development and she acted as the point person for these areas in the Test Kitchen. With 30+ years of experience in the culinary field, Pam created and tested 1000s of recipes for Southern Living. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on February 24, 2022 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Greg DuPree; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis; Food Styling: Torie Cox Active Time: 10 mins Chill Time: 4 hrs Total Time: 4 hrs 10 mins Yield: 2 ⅓ cups Ready to make Southern Living's 2020 White Cake? For this year's 25th anniversary cake, we pulled out all the stops, not only giving you a recipe for decadent Coconut Cake with Coconut Cream Frosting, but also giving you three different filling options: Lemon Curd Filling, Cranberry Filling, or Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling. It's a choose-your-own-adventure layer cake for the holidays. If you love all things chocolate, our Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling is the one for you. Rather than a thick, glossy ganache that you would use to fill a tart, this version is still rich in chocolate flavor, but light as a cloud. To approach this filling, you'll act as if you're making a standard ganache: Simply melt the chocolate and heavy cream together in the microwave, then whisk in the vanilla. From here, cover to let chill and thicken for at least 4 hours. Then, just before you're ready to assemble the cake, whip the ganache until it becomes light and fluffy. Be sure not to overbeat the ganache, or else it might become too stiff. And just like that, your Whipped Chocolate Ganache is ready to grace the layers of your big white coconut cake. Ingredients 2 (4-oz.) chopped semisweet chocolate baking bars 1 cup heavy whipping cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Directions Microwave chopped baking bars and whipping cream in a medium-size microwavable bowl on HIGH until melted and smooth, 90 seconds to 2 minutes, stopping to stir every 30 seconds. Whisk in vanilla extract until smooth. Cover and chill until ganache is thickened, at least 4 hours or up to 3 days. (If ganache chills 6 hours or longer, let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before whipping.) When you are ready to use the ganache, beat the chocolate mixture with an electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form and ganache lightens in color, 20 to 30 seconds (do not overbeat). Use immediately. Rate it Print