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The Sacher torte: Two layers of dense chocolate dough with a thin layer of apricot jam.
Austria’s famous chocolate cake — the “Original Sacher-Torte” — celebrated its 175th anniversary recently with a rooftop party and a serenade by opera star Montserrat Caballe. The bash was organised by Vienna’s prestigious Hotel Sacher that produces the cake — distinguished by its chocolate seal and sold in a wooden box complete with golden corners - from a secret recipe locked away in a safe. The Sacher torte is made of two layers
of dense chocolate dough with a thin layer of apricot jam in the middle and dark chocolate icing with shreds of chocolate on the top and sides. “There is only one original,” Elisabeth Guertler, who runs the hotel, said before the start of the festivities. The hotel, situated opposite the Opera in central Vienna, claims the cake came about by mere chance in 1832 when Franz Sacher, an apprentice at the court of Prince Metternich, had to come up with a dessert when he was filling in for his sick boss.
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