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Also known as Cookbook: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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Food.name
Sachertorte
Food.image
Sachertorte DSC03027 retouched.jpg
Food.caption
Sachertorte from the Hotel Sacher, Vienna
Food.place_of_origin
Vienna, Austria
Food.creator
Franz Sacher
Food.main_ingredient
Chocolate sponge cake, apricot jam, chocolate glaze

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Subclass of
sponge cake
Named after
Franz Sacher
Country of origin
Austria
Material used
dark chocolate
Image
Café Sabarsky Sachertorte.jpg
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inception
1832-00-00
native label
Sachertorte
discoverer or inventor
Franz Sacher
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sachertorte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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