What you need:
Place chocolate chips in a large bowl. In saucepan heat cream to a simmer, and pour over the chips. Let stand for a minute or two then stir with a whisk until smooth. If desired you can add vanilla or liquor to add more flavor once all the chocolate is melted. Let cool. This can be used to ice a cake or chilled for a truffle filling.
Ganache is optional on cheesecakes. Many varieties of cheesecake are possible with many different fruit toppings and garnishes, of which ganache is only one.
Sure. If you use a chocolate ganache, I recommend serving it with fresh raspberries.
Ganache can be used to ice desserts, whipped into a frosting, or chilled and used as a truffle filling.
Ganache is chocolate and cream. White chocolate ganache will be made by melting white chocolate and then adding cream. This is likely to be a lot sweeter than average ganache (dark chocolate) as white chocolate is sweeter in general and contains less cocoa solids.
Gateau is French for cake.
TRUFFLE
It is a cream chocolate sauce used for decorating cakes.
Whipping Cream And Melted Chocolate
Yes, in fact hazelnut ganache is a very healthy substitute for praline due to the natural anti-oxidants and fatty-acids (the good kind).
There are many resources one may use to find ganache recipes. One can use the Internet to search them out; perhaps they may purchase a cookbook online or at a bookstore.
It can be a range from buttercream to jam or even ganache
A wonderful gourmet dessert recipe would be the Chocolate Ganache cake recipe. The 2 basic ingredients in Chocolate Ganache are semi-sweet chocolate and heavy whipping cream. Bring cream to boil then pour over chocolate chunks and let stand. Cover to soften the chocolate then stir. The Ganache can be used to cover cakes or other desserts or made into truffles.