You still have time to plan, shop for and prepare a spectacular dessert for Christmas dinner. It’s easy if you make the recipe I share here for sachertorte, a rich, beautiful Austrian layer cake ...

No trip to Austria is complete without enjoying a piece of Sacher Torte. The chocolate cake's inventor would have turned 200 years old on December 19. Even Google is celebrating. Franz Sacher is one ...

First produced in Vienna by chef Franz Sacher, back in 1832, here is Mary Berry's recipe for the indulgent Sachertorte. Recipe Ingredients Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT For the cake: 140g/5oz ...

Vienna is a city of opulence, and the most palatial hotel in the Austrian capital is Hotel Sacher — yes, of the Sachertorte cake fame. Positioned bang in the heart of Vienna, opposite the opera, the ...

Vienna’s coffee houses are places “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill”. So reads the UNESCO description of these institutions. Time and space may satisfy a ...

For some time, famous Austrian confectioner Franz Sacher (1816-1907) used to live in what is today south-western Slovakia. Sacher is perhaps best known for his Sachertorte, a chocolate cake that is a ...

They take chocolate cake so seriously in Vienna that the city's two main producers once fought a nine-year legal battle about it. The dispute was known as the "cake war". The cake in question is the ...

The café is part of the second phase of restoration works on the manor’s southwest wing, a national cultural monument in southern Slovakia, according to My Levice. The original kitchen, where Sacher ...

09:40, Thu, Mar 20, 2025 Updated: 09:49, Thu, Mar 20, 2025 Best left a day or two before cutting, the Sachertorte cake is best baked today or tomorrow for a lovely bite at the weekend. Mary Berry ...