Chocolate cake is one of the most popular flavors among cake lovers. You can even get a wide range of chocolate sweet – sweet, semisweet, and bittersweet are just some of them. If you like it to be milkier, you can easily find milk chocolate.
Another reason why the chocolate cake is everybody’s favorite is that the flavor of chocolate can be easily mixed with fruit flavor, something we commonly taste in a cake. Chocolate tastes great with the orange and lemon flavor. It also blends very well with grapefruit. This mixed flavor of sweetness and fruity for sure balance the tea or coffee you are enjoying with your piece of chocolate cake 🙂
We can find various recipes of chocolate cake that we can try to make at home. Among those recipes, there are two kinds that you might want to learn to bake. They are both not too simple to make, but the deliciousness you are going to enjoy is worth the effort. The cakes we are talking about is Sachertorte and Prague Cake. So, what makes these cakes special? and which one is hard to make? We are about to find out!
In general, Sachertorte is a two-layered cake of soft and light chocolate cake. The two layers are separated with a layer of apricot jam. The whole cake is then covered with chocolate icing and served with unsweetened whipped cream. You will find some similar cakes recipes with the Sachertorte but it is still possible to find the original version. Hotel Sacher, a hotel established by Eduard Sacher, Franz Sacher’s eldest son, serves the initial version of his father’s world-famous chocolate cake. This is also the only place that has the right to the phrase “The Original Sachertorte”.
These are the ingredients you need to make Sachertorte:
For the cakes:
For the glaze:
For garnish:
These are how to make it:
Though the name of the cake mentions the city of Prague, this cake was invented by Vladimir Guralnik, a Soviet confectioner. In the 1070s, Guralnik worked in Praga (Prague) Hotel, a prestigious hotel located in the center of Moscow, as a pastry chef. This hotel was famous for many things – affluent menu, magnificent interior, and its status as Russia’s leading culinary “laboratory”. This was where the Prague Cake was created, hence the name.
Prague Cake is similar to Sachertorte. The thing that distinguishes it from the latter in its original sauce. While Sachertorte is covered with a glaze made of chocolate and sugar, Prague Cake is coated with a sauce made of chocolate and condensed milk.
The ingredients to make the layered cake of Prague Cake are the same with Sachertorte. The only difference is to make Sachetorte, you use chocolate, while for Prague Cake, you use cocoa powder. Just like the Sachertorte, once the cake is baked, let it cool down before cutting it into 3 layers.
As mentioned above, Prague Cake has its original sauce. This is the part that, between Sachertorte and Prague Cake, makes Prague Cake hard to make. You use this original sauce to cover two of its layer. These are the ingredients and how to make it:
The topping of Prague Cake is slightly different from the Sachertorte. Its topping uses the mix of melted 100 grams of bitter chocolate and 100 grams of butter. Cover the cake with this topping and keep it in the fridge for 2 hours.
Now we know, if we put Sachertorte versus Prague Cake, Prague cake is hard to make because it has the special sauce to grease its layers.
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