🇦🇹 Austria cuisine · #20
Esterházy Torte
Time120 min
Serves12
Ingredients10
Layers of almond meringue and vanilla buttercream topped with a chocolate web on white fondant — an aristocratic cake from Budapest and Vienna.
Ingredients
Method
- Whip whites with sugar, fold in almonds and bake 5 thin discs at 170°C for 12 minutes.
- Make a custard of milk, yolks and cornflour, cool, then beat into butter with vanilla.
- Stack the layers with cream.
- Cover with fondant, pipe chocolate lines and drag a knife through to form the web.