If you can find them, use fresh plums to make the puree in this super-fudgey cake, but if not, plum jam will also suffice.
By Katherine Sacks
Plum and Chocolate Sacher Torte
- Total Time: 1 hour
Description
If you can find them, use fresh plums to make the puree in this super-fudgey cake, but if not, plum jam will also suffice.
Ingredients
Scale
- 200 grams plum purée
- 100 grams sugar
- 200 grams butter
- 210 grams chocolate
- 5 eggs
- 160 grams sugar
- 85 grams flour
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter an 8-inch springform pan and dust lightly with sugar.
- Combine the plum purée and the sugar in a bowl. In a separate heat-proof bowl, combine the butter and chocolate. Heat chocolate mixture slowly over a water bath, stirring occasionally, until both the butter and chocolate are melted.
- While the chocolate is melting, add the eggs to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk. Begin whipping on medium speed and slowly rain in the sugar. Continue gradually adding the sugar, allowing the eggs to become light and fluffy and triple in volume. Increase speed and whip until the eggs are firm. When chocolate is melted, slowly fold 1/3 of the mixture into the egg yolks. Add the rest of the chocolate mixture and carefully fold it in. Next carefully fold in the plum mixture. Sift the flour into the mixture and fold it in. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top.
- Bake cake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top and sides are fully set and starting to brown. Remove from oven and place pan on a cooling rack for 40 minutes. Remove cake from springform pan and place on cooling rack to cool completely. Top cake with jam, frosting, or powdered sugar and serve.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Category: Dessert
Hi This looks devine
Do u think I could add almond meal instead of flour as its such a small amount
Many thanks
I’m sorry, but this is not at all a Sachertorte. Sachertorte should have a ganache layer all over the exterior, and a chocolate glaze, as well as an apricot jam centre and a kirsch imbibage. You can call this anything else you like, but it’s not a Sachertorte.