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Sacher Torte Recipe


Sacher Torte Recipe
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Ingredients
  • 5 oz. butter
  • 5 oz. icing sugar
  • 5 oz. chocolate
  • 5 oz. all-purpose flour
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon rum
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons apricot jam
  • CHOCOLATE ICING
  • 5 oz. chocolate
  • 4 oz. granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup of water
  • 1/4 teaspoon melted butter

Directions
  1. Prepare round cake tin size 8 inches (20 cm).
  2. Sift all-purpose flour twice.
  3. Separate egg yolks and whites.
  4. Cream butter with 4 oz.of icing sugar.
  5. Melt chocolate with 1 tablespoon of water (chocolate must be soft but not hot).
  6. Add egg yolks and melted chocolate gradually to butter and sugar mixture.
  7. Add 1 tablespoon rum to mixture and stir lightly.
  8. Preheat oven to 350 F
  9. Whisk egg whites until stiff with 1 ounce icing sugar.
  10. Put beaten egg whites into remaining mixture alternately with the all-purpose flour.
  11. Bake in buttered and floured round cake tin for about 50 to 55 minutes.
  12. When baked cool 2 minutes, than remove to cooling rack.
  13. Spread 3 to 4 tablespoons of warmed apricot jam over cold cake and put chocolate icing on the cake.
  14. CHOCOLATE ICING
  15. In a saucepan dissolve 4 oz. granulated sugar in a 1/4 cup of water and than bring to boil.
  16. Brush the sides of the saucepan with a brush dipped in cold water to prevent crystals forming.
  17. Cook to " small thread " stage, than remove from fire and leave to cool.
  18. Melt 5 oz. chocolate until soft but not hot.
  19. Add lukewarm sugar into melted chocolate, than add a 1/4 teaspoon melted butter into chocolate icing and stir well.
  20. Put chocolate icing on the cake.
  21. NOTE: Thickness of the chocolate icing must be equal that of the apricot jam.
  22. Serve next day with whipped cream if desired.

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I love sacher torte and this recipe is so easy.Thanks for sharing,I am saving it.


Uhmmmmmm Mystic.... this is so good, maybe would be a good idea if you send to me a box of your Sacher torte by Fedex, and I send to you a pack of Juan Valdez coffee... lol


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