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- Article: 5978 of rec.food.recipes
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Sachertorte
- Message-ID: <GHNUK3@taronga.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 05:50:33 GMT
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- Sachertorte
- >From Gourmet Magazine, June 1989
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- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups apricot jam, pureed
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- Glaze:
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 16 ounces fine quality semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine
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- Make the torte: In a saucepan combine the butter, the oil, and 1 cup
- water and bring the mixture to a boil. In a bowl with an electric mixer
- beat together the sugar, the flour, and the cocoa powder for 30 seconds,
- or until the mixture is combined well, add the butter mixture in a stream,
- beating, and beat in the eggs, the buttermilk, the vanilla and the baking
- soda. Beat the batter until it is just combined well, pour it into a
- buttered and floured 9 inch cake pan, 2 inches deep, and bake the torte
- in the middle of a preheated 350F oven for 55 to 60 minutes, or until a
- tester comes out clean. Let the torte cool in the pan on a rack for 5
- minutes, turn it out onto the rack, and let it cool completely. With a
- long serrated knife carefully cut the torte horizontally into 3 even layers,
- invert the top layer onto a small rack and spread it with about 2/3 cup of
- the jam. Top the first layer with the middle layer, spread it with about
- 1/2 cup of the jam, and invert the third layer onto the middle layer.
- Spread the top and sides of the torte with the remaining jam and chill the
- torte for at least 2 hours, or until it is very cold.
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- Make the glaze: In a saucepan bring the cream to a boil, put the chocolate
- in a bowl, and pour the hot cream over it. Stir the mixture until the
- chocolate is melted and it forms a smooth glaze and let it cool until it
- is lukewarm and thickened but still pourable.
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- Put the torte on the rack over a jelly-roll pan and pour the glaze over it,
- spreading the glaze to coat the top and sides evenly. Chill the torte
- for 1 hour, or until the glaze is set, and serve it with whipped cream.
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