There is little more than a week to celebrate Valentine's. A week in which Bezzia We will propose different ideas to surprise your partner like this Sacher cake. Because, who wouldn't like to enjoy this chocolate cake as a dessert after a romantic dinner?
La sacher cakeThe recipe for which is guardedly guarded is still served in the sumptuous red rooms of the Viennese Hotel Sacher. With a simple brownie as a base, a filling of apricot jam and a chocolate glaze that covers it completely, who can resist?
Time: 1h30min
Difficulty: Easy
For a mold of: 24 cm. diameter
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 100 g. pastry flour
- 10 g. chemical yeast
- 110 g. creamy butter
- 110 g. icing sugar
- 6 eggs (separated yolks from whites)
- 110 g. almond flour
- 150 g. dark chocolate 70% cocoa
- 110 g. of sugar
- 350 g. hot apricot jam
For coverage
- 300 g. dark chocolate for coverage
- 300 g. cream (35% mg)
- 70 g. creamy butter
Step by step
- Heats the oven at 180º C. and grease and flour a 24 cm mold. removable.
- Sift the flour with chemical yeast and reserve
- Beat the butter and icing sugar until white.
- Add the yolks while we continue to beat.
- Add the almond flour and melted dark chocolate and beat again.
- Mount the whites and the sugar, and add them to the previous mixture with enveloping movements.
- Incorporate, to finish, the sifted flour and mix de enveloping shape until integrating.
- Pour the dough into the mold and bake between 30 and 40 minutes or until the cake is done.
- Then, take it out of the oven and let it temper for 15 minutes before unmold on a wire rack.
- When the cake is totally cold open it in half with the help of a lyre or a good knife.
- Fill it with the half of the jam and with the other half brush both the surface and the edges of it.
- For prepare topping Melt the chocolate and butter with the hot cream. When the chocolate is melted, mix carefully and cover the cake with a first layer of frosting, smoothing the surface with a spatula.
- Put in the fridge for 10 minutes so that the chocolate hardens and then bathe with the rest of the coverage that you will have tempered in a water bath.
- Decorate to your liking.
