Easy shinny Chocolate Mirror Glaze using Powder Gelatine (How to make mirror glaze)

Mirror - Glaze cakes are modern mousse cakes with a mirror glaze. These breathtaking delicacies have been produced in the modern French patisserie for a long time and are now astonishing the whole world.

Everywhere, whether Instagram or Pinterest, you can see mirror-smooth tartlets that stand out from afar with their incorruptible shine. Mirror Glaze is the name of this glaze and this summer is probably the trend you can not ignore. Since the tartlets can be covered with frost, I made a frozen cake out of it.


There are many formulas based on gelatin, agar-agar, with glucose syrup, with sweetened condensed milk or cream. If you pay attention to some important points in the production and application, you can make a beautiful and dreamlike mirror - cake with each recipe.

Here's a simple recipe for a dark mirror glaze. This mirror glaze is made with cocoa and without glucose syrup. The glaze itself tastes very deliciously chocolaty and is not too sweet.

If you want to achieve a darker tone to black, you can optionally darken the glaze with black gel paint.

Let's quickly check out the ingredients

3 tsp of gelatin
3 tsp of water
210 grams of sugar
75 grams of water
145 grams of cream
70 grams of cocoa powder

For step by step instructions do check out the video