Sacher-torte

Sacher-torte (countable and uncountable, plural Sacher-tortes or Sacher-torten)

1. Alternative form of Sachertorte.
   • 1944 March 25, “Plays and Pictures”, in The New Statesman and Nation, volume XXVII, number 683, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206, column 2:

     The rest of the building is an Austrian Centre, and downstairs there is a restaurant, full of the pale ghosts and nostalgic memories of the kind of Wiener Schnitzel, Apfelstrudel and Sacher-torten you may—or may not—once have eaten.

   • 2014, Crista McHugh, chapter 2, in A Seductive Melody (The Kelly Brothers; 5), →ISBN, pages 21, 24, and 31:

     “You’re really missing out on Gitta’s Sacher-torte. It was her grandmother’s recipe.” […] She didn’t expand, turning her attention instead on the remaining crumbs of her Sacher-torte as she engaged her fork in a repetitive dance of stab, smash, and scrape. […] She released his arm and took a step back toward the café. “I’d better go retrieve that slice of Sacher-torte before someone else does.”

   • 2018, Eric E. Wallace, “Sweetness and Light Overtures”, in Emperor’s Reach: A Novel of San Francisco, Anchorage, Alas., Eagle, Ida.: Rabbit Creek Creative; St. Petersburg, Fla.: BookLocker.com, →ISBN, page 48:

     This Wednesday, La Dolce Via was just into its semiannual Viennese Week. Tito had wanted a focus on tortes, and the staff had outdone themselves with Sacher-tortes, Esterhazys, Dobos and Malakovs, along with Tito's own invention, a five-layer cake masterfully intertwining Austrian marzipan, hazelnuts and coconut.