Ultra rich and chocolatey while still light and fluffy, this whipped chocolate ganache is my new go-to cake topping.
I’m really not a big fan of classic buttercream. I find it too sweet and rich for my taste, and when I eat a slice of cake with tons of buttercream I usually end up scooping a lot of it off. I do, however, looooove whipped cream on a cake. That’s what we used for this eggless first birthday cake for my niece Scarlet. But when it came to decorating this vanilla Oreo cake for Halloween, I knew I couldn’t use whipped cream; it had to be a brown frosting for the dirt around my skeleton. And then I came across this recipe for whipped chocolate ganache, which really is the best of all worlds. Not too sweet, super rich and chocolatey, and light and fluffy like whipped cream. It was the perfect topping for that cake, and is my new go-to frosting for just about everything.
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