December 5: National Sacher Torte Day!
 
Sacher Torte! I don’t know what that is! I thought all tortes are created equal… but apparently that’s not the case. Since I’ve begun this Quest, I’ve tried to read a week or so in advance to see if I’ll need to special order anything (see: chocolate covered bugs) or make a special trip somewhere. I guess Sacher torte slipped through the cracks. I assumed it was just like, a torte. Um, no. It’s some fancy Austrian thing I guess? Viennese? From what I can gather (again, based on MEMORY since I’m flying through the air at like, 500 miles an hour or whatever and cut off from civilization as we know it aka wikipedia. Anyway, it’s a chocolate cake with some raspberry (I think!) layer and a chocolate ganache coating.
 
I guess people special order these suckers for NATIONAL Sacher Torte Day? Who knew? These are probably the same people who buy Nouveau Beaujolais at 12:01am.
 
What further complicated my completing this mission of my Quest was that I had my work Christmas party after work on December 5th from 5pm-10pm. How was I going to procure (or god forbid MAKE) a torte after my party??
 
Work to the rescue!
 

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One of my department’s supervisors was promoted and switching out of our department, so there was a big ole cake. A big ole chocolate cake with raspberry filling and chocolate frosting. If that’s not the poor man’s version of a torte, I don’t know what is!
 
Tomorrow: Microwave Oven Day