Sacher Torte Cake Recipe

Sacher torte cake recipe with step by step pictures. This is the world's most famous cake, the Original Sacher-Torte which is Austrian origin cake. This taste delicious and is such a classic.

Sacher Torte Cake Recipe

Sacher torte recipe is one of the recipe which I wanted to make for a very long time. Finally made it few days back and it turned out perfect. This cake was easy to bake and I made a simple version. This recipe is adapted from a cookbook “the ultimate chocolate cookbook”.

About Sacher torte

Sachertorte is a chocolate cake or torte of Austrian origin invented by Franz Sacher in 1832 for prince Metternich in Vienna. It is one of the most famous recipe. According to history, when the Austrian State Chancellor, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, tasked his kitchen staff with concocting an extraordinary dessert to impress his special guests. The chef had fallen ill that evening, leaving the apprentice chef Franz Sacher to take over the kitchen. Franz Sacher came up with this cake recipe which blown away the guest. 

Sacher torte cake has a spread of apricot jam in the middle. But the recipe which I followed in the cookbook doesn’t have that step. So I skipped that step. But you can apply a layer of jam in the middle of the sliced cake and topped with a chocolate glaze. 

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Ingredients for Making Sacher Torte

• 150 ml Hot Water 150 ml
• 165 grams All purpose flour
• 45 grams Cocoa Powder
• 200 grams Sugar
• 125 grams Unsalted Butter
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract

For Glaze

• 200 grams Chocolate 
• 100 grams Unsalted Butter

How to Make Sacher torte

Pre-preparation

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line a 8inch cake pan with parchment paper. Set aside. Take hot water, cocoa powder in a bowl or jug and mix well. Set aside. Take flour, salt, baking powder in a bowl and mix well. Whisk eggs with vanilla and mix well. Set aside.

Creaming Butter & Sugar

Take butter in a bowl, add in castor sugar and whip till creamy and fluffy. Add in eggs little at a time and whisk till creamy.

Making Cake Batter

Add in half of the cocoa water mix and half of the flour and fold gently. Add in the remaining cocoa mix and flour and fold gently.  Spoon the batter in to the baking pan and spread evenly. Pop it into the oven and bake for 35 to 40 mins. 

Cake Glaze

While the cakes are baking. Make the glaze. Take chocolate and butter in a bowl or a sauce pan and melt it in microwave or over double boiler. Melt completely. Set aside. Take the cake and invert it onto cooling rack. So the the flat bottom of the cake face upwards for the glaze. Place the rack over a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Pour the glaze over the cake and spread evenly using a palette knife. 

Decorating

Decorate the cake as you wish. Set aside cool and the glaze to set completely. Slice and serve.

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Sacher Torte Cake Recipe Step by Step Pictures

1)Take hot water, cocoa powder in a bowl or jug and mix well. Set aside. 

2)Take flour, salt, baking powder in a bowl and mix well.

3)Whisk eggs with vanilla and mix well. Set aside.

4)Take butter in a bowl, add in castor sugar and whip till creamy and fluffy.

5)Add in eggs little at a time and whisk till creamy.

6)Add in half of the cocoa water mix.

7)Mix gently

8)Add in half of the flour and fold gently.

9)Add in the remaining cocoa mix and flour and fold gently. 

10)Fold gently.

11)Spoon the batter in to the baking pan and spread evenly. Pop it into the oven and bake for 35 to 40 mins. 

12)While the cakes are baking. Make the glaze. Take chocolate and butter in a bowl or a sauce pan and melt it in microwave or over double boiler. Melt completely. Set aside.

13)Take the cake and invert it onto cooling rack. So the the flat bottom of the cake face upwards for the glaze.

14)Place the rack over a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Pour the glaze over the cake and spread evenly using a palette knife. 

14)Decorate the cake as you wish. Set aside cool and the glaze to set completely. Slice and serve.

Tips & Tricks

• This recipe is a simple version of Sacher torte. You can easily take the cake to next level by slicing the cake in half and sandwiching it with apricot jam. 
• The cake is moist, simple and elegant with chocolate flavour.
• The glaze on the cake gives a richness to the cake. You can use a pourable ganache for the glaze too.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Sachertorte taste like?

the Sachertorte is soft delicate chocolate cake with luscious spread apricot jam, but never squidgy or gooey. As Rick Rodgers writes in his book Kaffeehaus, “for this reason, Sachertorte is always served with a big dollop of lightly whipped, gently sweetened, heavy cream.

What is Sachertorte Cake?

Sacher torte is a classic Austrian chocolate cake layered with apricot preserves. 

Does Sacher cake have alcohol?

In accordance with the original 1832 recipe, the Original Sacher-Torte and Original Sacher Cubes do not contain alcohol.