You’ll love these tips when making Mirror Glaze.
Sweet Secret Any remaining glaze can be covered and refrigerated up to 1 week to use on another cake. To reheat, place in medium microwaveable bowl, microwave uncovered on High 1 to 1½ minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until between 85°F and 90°F. If necessary, scoop up any glaze that has fallen on the parchment paper with a spoon to pour over cake to completely cover top and sides.
Sweet Secret If you like, use Mirror Glaze on top of plain cake (no crumb coating needed), but the cake must be cold for it to glaze properly, so refrigerate the cooled cake 30 minutes before glazing. Without the frosting, you can see through the glaze to the plain cake.
Simple Sparkle Garnish glazed cake with fresh berries before refrigerating to set glaze. Add fresh mint or lemon leaves before serving.
Did you know creamy ready-to-spread frosting can quickly be turned into a cake glaze?
1 Spoon about ½ cup creamy chocolate ready-to-spread frosting into a small microwavable bowl.
2 Microwave uncovered on High about 15 seconds or until frosting can be stirred smooth and is thin enough to drizzle. (Or spoon frosting into 1-quart saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until thin enough to drizzle.)
3 Glazes top of one 12-cup bundt cake, 10-inch angel food cake, 13 x 9-inch cake or 8- or 9-inch layer cake.
Sweet Secret It doesn’t take an entire can of frosting to glaze a cake, so spooning it into a bowl to heat will leave frosting you can use for another occasion!
Simple Sparkle Before the glaze has a chance to set on the cake, sprinkle with crushed hard candies, cookies or chopped nuts.
Simple Sparkle Heat vanilla frosting with the same technique and drizzle cake alternately with chocolate and vanilla frostings for zebra effect.