Chocolate Glaze - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 tablespoons heavy cream
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup water, plus
1 1/2 tablespoons water
1 1/2 ounces Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin (or 1 1/4 sheets of sheet gelatin)

Preparation

In a large saucepan, combine cream, sugar, 1/2 cup of the water and the cocoa.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer whisking often until very thick like hot fudge sauce- 8-10 minutes from beginning of simmer.
Watch carefully so miixture doesn't boil over.
Remove pan from heat.
While mixture cools, bloom gelatin in 1 1/2 tablespoon of cold water.
Melt the bloomed gelatin over very hot water or in the microwave.
(If using sheet gelatin, soften for 5 minutes in cold water, wring out gelatin and whisk into chocolate mixture).
Whisk gelatin into chocolate mixture and strain the glaze through a medium sieve into a metal bowl.
Let glaze cool at room temperature until thick but still pourable, about 5-10 minutes.
Pour glaze over your cake.