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 ...

“There is only one original Sacher-Torte,” our tour guide told us, “and it is here, at the Hotel Sacher.” My two friends and I exchanged glances. “That’s the chocolate cake we’re supposed to try,” ...

In certain cafés within Vienna, you can order a dessert tied directly to a documented event from 1832. The recipe has been continuously produced in the same city for nearly two centuries. That level ...

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”— Wolfgang Amadeus A house is not a home unless it ...

Not one crumb is out of place on Café Sacher’s sachertorte. A slick of smooth apricot jam is sandwiched between two layers of neat chocolate sponge, the whole thing cloaked in a precisely 4mm-thick ...

It started with something sweet. In 1832, Franz Sacher, a 16-year-old apprentice chef, created The Original Sacher-Torte–a moist chocolate cake with hidden layers of apricot jam–at the request of ...

What may be the world's most celebrated chocolate cake, Vienna's Sacher-Torte, is feting 175 years since its creator produced a recipe that still remains as closely guarded as a state secret. "Aside ...