Sacher Torte

When I popped home to see my parents in Nottingham my Mum made a great suggestion, 'lets make a Sacher Torte'.  

We got the recipe from here. This is a recipe that my sister has made a few times and she makes it really well, so much so her husband requested it as his birthday cake. It is a truly wonderful torte. 

Here is our torte all gunked up with lovely marmalade which we used instead of apricot jam as Mum decided that this was not needed. I have to admit it made no difference, the jam is used to keep the icing attached to the cake and apricot jam is preferable as it is not as flavour sum. Making the cake was fun and I opted to do this before writing my assignment, which was defiantly one of those no brainer decisions! Cake first please.

This was the best bit, making the icing, chocolate and cream mixed together. This was made the day after the cake was, as I got a bit to engrossed in writing my assignment, which you will be pleased to know I finished. I think my motivation was increased by the thought of Sacher Torte at the end of it. The icing was left to cool whilst we all get dressed and showered. And then the fun began.

The icing has to be poured onto the cake and you rotate the cake to make the icing reach all the edges, it was like one of those puzzle games were you had to get the balls to roll into certain places. If you spread the icing you lose the lovely sheen. As you can see we had to do a bit a spreading.

The finished product! It was yummy, I need to work a bit on my writing skills, but at least I spelt it right.