Sachertorte
Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam. The apricot jam is either under the glaze or in the middle of two sponge layers. The cake was invented by the Austrian Franz Sacher, either in 1832 for Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich, or in the 1840s.
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Sachertorte is an Austrian chocolate cake made from chocolate sponge, apricot jam, and a chocolate glaze, with the jam positioned either between the cake layers or beneath the glaze. The dessert was created by Franz Sacher in the early-to-mid 1800s and has become a notable part of Austrian culinary tradition.
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- Sachertorte
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- Sachertorte from the Hotel Sacher, Vienna
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- Vienna, Austria
- Food.creator
- Franz Sacher
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- Chocolate sponge cake, apricot jam, chocolate glaze
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Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam. The apricot jam is either under the glaze or in the middle of two sponge layers. The cake was invented by the Austrian Franz Sacher, either in 1832 for Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich, or in the 1840s.
The Hotel Sacher and Demel pastry shop in Vienna serve the cake, while it is also popular in other parts of Austria and in other German-speaking countries. In the 20th century, they battled over the cake's ownership, trademark, and whether the original cake had one or two layers of sponge. Both of their cakes were made with butter, chocolate, eggs, flour, and sugar, but their exact recipes were kept secret. Hotel Sacher serves the cake with whipped cream.