Rachel Roddy’s recipe for a not-sachertorte | A kitchen in Rome

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A chocolate cake inspired by the Sacher hotel in Vienna’s trademark creation and emulated by a local Roman pasticceriaThis column began two years ago, almost to the day, when I made a birthday cake for a friend. “I don’t mind,” was her reply when I first asked what sort of cake she would like. But then, a few minutes later, she said: “Hang on, I mean chocolate with glossy icing. Like the mini ones they make at Barberini.”Barberini is a local bar and cake shop, and the mini cakes she was referrin