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Experience the legend
of the origin of Imperial Torte

The
legend

The year is 1873, and the Worlds Fair is just about to open in Vienna. The city is filled with an excitement and energy that holds people in its spell …

… especially Xavier Loibner, a young scullion at the Hotel Imperial. During the night of 28th April 1873 he lies awake for a long time, preoccupied with a single idea:

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to bake the perfect cake

for Emperor Franz Joseph I, who is due to open the luxurious Hotel Imperial the next day.

He envisions

creating a cake that will be so unique that no other confectioner far and wide will ever be able to copy it.
Since he is not allowed to use any kitchen appliances …

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… he has to prepare the cake by hand

He sums up all his courage and he secretly prepares the first square cake, which stands out from all the others due to its striking shape.

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The first square cake.

The next day the emperor is so delighted with precisely this cake that this is the only creation he will taste. This event marks the birth of the superb

Success takes its course …
… and is still unbroken to this day

and it has been a secret ever since.

People’s enjoyment of the cake is still as exquisite today as it was in 1873: a mouth-watering chocolate icing, a slightly tart aroma of almonds and the fusion of chocolate cream and marzipan combine to make the perfect composition.

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Once the private residence of Duke Philipp of Württemberg, this magnificent palais turned into Hotel Imperial Vienna on the occasion of the World’s Fair in 1873.

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According to legend, the Imperial Torte Vienna has been created from the Imperial Hotel’s young kitchen servant Xaver Loibner in occasion of the grand opening of the Hotel Imperial in 1873. Since then, the unique Viennese confection in typical quadratic shape, is handmade in great passion by masters of the Hotel. Once, created to emperor Franz Josef I, this unique Austrian chocolate almond cake represents the tradition and culture of Vienna and delights people all over the world.

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