Recipe: Sacher Cake (Austrian chocolate Cake)

This cake is the best chocolate cake you will ever taste, it is like the original Sacher cake from the famous coffee houses in Salzburg and Vienna.

I made it just recently for the first time, since my grandma and my mother used to bake it for me regularly. Its so simple, let me tell you how you can do it too.


Ingredients:
120 gram dark chocolate (min. 40% cacao)
120 gram margarine
6 egg yolks
6 egg whites
80 gram sugar
100 gram icing sugar
80 gram flour
40 gram cornflour
--
for the filling, a drop of rum, and apricot jam

Melt the chocolate and margarine slowly. Mix the egg yolks and the icing sugar well, also mix the egg whites and the sugar, make sure you get a nice foam from the whites.
Now add a bit of flour, a bit of melted chocolate/margarine than the whites to the yolks. Always add a bit of each and mix, until you have used all and you should get a brown ish mix.

Pour all in a cake form, and bake it first at 180C for 10 minutes, after on 140C for 50 Minutes in the oven. With a toothpick you can check than if the dough is well baken, if some dough is on the pick than let it bake a little longer.

After baking cut the cake vertically, if possible twice. Than you fill the cake with the apricot jam/rum mix.
Finally melt again some chocolate and margarine (equal amounts of it) and pour it over the cake to make a nice chocolate varnish. Have a look at the Sacher website to see a example of a perfect cake.

Let it cool down and enjoy