The Sacher Torte

The real Sacher Torte (pronounced Sacker) is considered to be the earliest recorded recipe to be based on chocolate, devised in Austria in 1778. Nearly two hundred years later it was the subject of a legal wrangle between the Sacher family, of the torte and hotel fame, and Demel’s pâtisserie. Demel’s patisserie, which had been making pastries for the Hapsburgs and the wealthy of Vienna for two hundred years, boasted ‘the original Sacher Torte’. The situation reached a crescendo and eventual