Sacher Torte
Whip until fluffy
- 10 ounces sugar
- 10 ounces butter
- Melt 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate and fold into butter sugar mixture
- 6 egg yolks – add to batter one at a time
- 4 ounces cake flour – stir in
- 6 egg whites – beat until stiff and add after flour
- #2 can sour pitted cherries, drain and fold in
- Bake at 350 for 45 minutes in a floured 10” pan
- Turn out and cool. Ice
- Icing:
- 4 ounces butter
- 1-teaspoon water
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
- Put in a small saucepan and melt, blending together – let cool slightly to ice
- Decorate with almonds around perimeter so that there is one almond per piece of cake
(Mr. Shiller, May 1976 – an old German baker – wrote recipe as fast as I could)
These are toy soldiers that my mother cut out of sugar cookies, decorated and put them around a drum cake for one of my birthdays.