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ganache

  • /ɡəˈnæʃ/
  • /ɡəˈnɑːʃ/

Rhymes with -æʃ, -ɑːʃ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

noun ganaches

  1. countable, uncountable A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze. The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!
  2. countable, historical, uncountable A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves. M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ...

    Similar: garnache

  3. countable, obsolete, uncountable A fool

verb ganaches · ganaching · ganached

  1. transitive To coat with ganache. to ganache the sides of a cake

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noun sauce

Españolganash, ganache
한국어가나슈 ganasyu
日本語ガナッシュ ganasshu
中文伽納徹 /伽纳彻 gānàchè
Portuguêsganache
Françaisganache
DeutschGanache, Pariser Creme, Ganachecreme
Italianocrema ganache
Русскийгана́ш ganáš

verb glaze with chocolate sauce

Françaisganacher

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@misc{ganache_2026,
  title = {ganache},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ganache},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}