Almost (50th) anniversary cake
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This is for a couple who have been married for nearly fifty years - 48, to be exact. It's sort of a practice run for their golden anniversary cake The cake itself is a Sacher torte, a classic Viennese dessert invented by a teenage apprentice chef (the head chef was ill) at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, when Prince Metternich dined at the Sacher. It consists of two layers of a dense, intensely chocolatey cake, with raspberry jam betwen, the whole thing coated lavishly with an even more intense chocolate glaze. I dusted the glaze with edible gold glitter powder, and likwise gilded the marzipan roses. The plastic sign says "Always and Forever". Like most Viennese pastries, Sacher torte is served with a generous dollop of whipped cream on each serving. I did get to taste it, and it's delicious, as well as being luxurious and somewhat decadent. And I have two more years to improve the design :-) This entry was also posted at https://acelightning.dreamwidth.org/204789.html. Reply wherever you read it.