Vegan Sacher Torte

There is nothing more representative of Vienna than its Sacher Torte. This version is a vegan interpretation of it, with the classic apricot jam and the chocolate coverture.

What will be Vienna without her smokey cafès and a slice of Sacher Torte?

I have been living in this elegant city for a couple of years now and with every visit I recieved it came the request to taste this cake. It is a pretty famous cake indeed, and there is always a line of tourists out of the Hotel Sacher, waiting patiently to enter and taste one of the most representative symbols of the Imperial city.

I have never tried to recreate it myself, so I decided instead to take just inspiration from it and make a vegan version. I have used a banana in this recipe to substitute the eggs, and this makes the cake very moist, but there is a faint hint of banana taste. If this bother you I would suggest you substitute the banana with apple sauce, it achieves the same result.

I suggest you to let the cake rest for a day or overnight before cutting it, it needs time to settle and it will last you a couple of days in the fridge.

Prepare yourself a cup of coffee , take a piece of this torte and enjoy the feeling to be in Vienna.

Ingredients

260g flour

1 medium banana (approx 150g)

30g cacao powder

8g baking powder

100g white sugar

250ml soy milk

120ml sunflower oil

1 tbs vanilla extract

Apricot Jam

Chocolate for coverture

Method

1. Pre-heat your over

2. Blend the banana with the oil and the milk in a blender. If you don't have a blender you can whisk the mixture untils the banana is completely mashed

3. In a bowl sift the flour, the cocoa powder and the baking soda. Then add the sugar.

4. Mix the blended ingredients with the dry ingredients until everything is combined. Don't overmix, otherwise the cake will not raise in the oven.

5. Grease a 18 cm baking tin and pour in the batter.

6. Bake it for around 40min

7. Cool the cake around 1h before cutting into halves. Spread the apricot jam in the middle

8. Melt the chocolate and pour it over the cake

9. Cool down the cake for at least a couple of hours or in the fridge for 1h before eating it.

10. Enjoy

Ciao

Chiara