Sachertorte

Today's recipe: Sachertorte! 

The best thing about this cake is that you always end up as the best guest of the party! Its chocolate glazed is desirable and its filling (homemade apricot jam) is something that comes down from heaven. Don't miss this recipe because it will make your mouth water! 

50 minutos  + 2 h homemade apricot jam

12 serves

Easy

First of all, we should prepare the jam. 

Homemade apricots jam ingredients:

• 500 gr apricots
• 250 gr sugar
• grated rind of half a lemon
• cinnamon stick

Method: Wash up the apricots, peel them and remove the seeds. Once you finish the first step, you don’t need to chop them, just cut them into wedges. In a pot, put the apricots, the sugar, the lemon and the cinnamon stick and cook everything on low heat during 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, remove the cinnamon stick and leave the lemon. Stir from time to time. After 2 hours, remove the pot from the heat and let it get cooler. 

Chocolate cake ingredients: 

• 250 gr sugar
• 250 gr butter
• 6 eggs
• 250 gr dark chocolate
• 75 gr almond flour
• 200 gr flour

Chocolate glazed ingredients: 

• 300 gr dark chocolate
• 100 butter
• 100 ml cream

Method: first of all, we should leave the butter out of the fridge before starting to work with it because it will help us. Once its texture is lighter, we put the butter into a bowl together with the sugar until getting a soft cream using a beater. Taste it: if it does not have a sandy texture , the cream is ready. If not, you should keep beating. Once this step is finished, it is time to incorporate the yolks one at a time. Now,  melt the chocolate. Sit over a pan of barely simmering water, this is called a bain marie, and allow the chocolate to melt, stirring occasionally. Then, remove it from the heat and let it get cooler. After this step, incorporate the chocolate to the creamy dough. In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients: the flour and the almond flour. And then, incorporate these two flours to the wet mixture.

Beat the egss white until stiff. Now, incorporate them to the previous mixture with a rolling motion. Open the oven and bake the cake at 180º C for 10 minutes. After these 10 minutes, reduce the heat at 170 ºC and bake it for 30 minutes. NOTE: these are just approximate measures. 

Once the cake is baked, remove it from the oven until it gets cooler. Meanwhile, we can prepare the syrup: 150 gr sugar and 100 ml water. Pour these two ingredients into a little pot and let them boil over a low heat. Now, the cake is ready to cut it into two parts. Soak both sides with syrup and fill just one of the sides with the jam. Close it.

Chocolate glazed method: in a little pot, melt the chocolate over a low heat with the butter until getting a shiny mixture. Now, add the cream. Put the cake over a rack and pour the chocolate glazed over it. Prepare the decoration beforehand. In my case, I prepared little spheres of chocolate with the name "Sacher" on it. If you are going to to something similar, you should put it on the cake once you have poured the chocolate glazed because it is not cold yet. It is time to put the cake in the fridge for 2 or more hours. And it is ready to taste!

Hope you have enjoyed it!