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The Vienna chocolate torte, wooden box

Baked to order by a 4th-district bakery: apricot glaze under dark chocolate, no cream, sent in a wooden box.

from €39.00VAT included · €0.00 booking fee

48 on the shelf · counted at the counter

Which one

Up to 9 in one order.

Your order

1 × €39.00

€0.00 booking fee · shipping or free collection chosen at checkout

  • Posted the next working day · Austria €4.90, free over €80 · rest of the EU €9.90, free over €120 · rest of world €24.90, free over €250
  • Free collection at our office counter during opening hours — ready the same evening if you order by 15:00
  • 14 days from delivery to change your mind on unopened goods; food and drink excepted by law

A 32-year argument

Two houses, one cake, seven years in court

A sixteen-year-old apprentice is said to have improvised the cake for Prince Metternich’s kitchen in 1832. A century later two Viennese houses went to court over whose version was the original — the case ran for seven years and ended in a split decision that Vienna still enjoys arguing about.

Ours is neither of them: a third recipe from a bakery in the 4th district, apricot glaze between the layers and under the chocolate, no cream anywhere in it. That is why it keeps three weeks in the box and why it is served with unsweetened cream on the side.

The dispute is documented history; the recipe is our bakery’s own.

The particulars

Size
16 cm, about 6 slices
Ingredients
Dark chocolate 55%, apricot, butter, egg, sugar, flour · nut-free
Keeps
Three weeks unrefrigerated, sealed
Weight
1.2 kg with box
Made in
Vienna 4

Getting it home

  • A solid, not a liquid: hand luggage is fine, and the wooden box is rigid enough to sit on top of a rucksack.

  • Do not refrigerate it. Cold dulls the glaze and dries the crumb.

  • Baked the morning it ships, so choose your collection or delivery date at checkout.

Not sure? Ask at the counter or call +43 1 934 66 40 — we would rather you carried it than lost it at security.

This one at a glance

Price, stock, shipping, collection and the return window checked against our own terms on .
What
The Vienna chocolate torte, wooden box
Made by
Baked to order by a 4th-district bakery: apricot glaze under dark chocolate, no cream, sent in a wooden box.
Made in
Vienna 4
Material
16 cm, about 6 slices
Weight
1.2 kg with box
Price
From €39.00, per the choice above, VAT included, €0.00 booking fee — the maker’s own price, not a marked-up one.
Stock
48 on the shelf · counted at the counter — a number we counted on our own shelf, printed as a fact. Nothing here runs on a clock.
Delivery
Austria €4.90, free over €80 · rest of the EU €9.90, free over €120 · rest of world €24.90, free over €250 · alcohol within the EU only · free at our office counter, the same evening if you order by 15:00.
Returns
You have 14 days from the day the parcel is delivered to return unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law. If something arrives damaged we pay the return postage. A refund is started the same day and lands in three to five bank days, on the card that paid.

Not verified

The workshop facts on this page — founding years, production figures, recipes — are carried from our buying notes and were not re-read against the makers on the day the shop’s own terms were checked.

Questions guests ask

The six that apply to everything on the shelf, then the ones about this object.

  • What does shipping cost?

    Austria €4.90, free over €80 of shop goods. The rest of the European Union €9.90, free over €120. Rest of the world €24.90, free over €250. The same figures run the checkout, and our handling fee is €0 on all three.

  • Can I collect it at your counter instead?

    Yes, free, at our office counter — Monday to Friday 09:00–18:00, Saturday 09:00–19:00, Sunday 10:00–16:00. Order by 15:00 and it is waiting the same evening, which is the sensible route if you are at a concert that night.

  • Can I change my mind?

    You have 14 days from the day the parcel is delivered to return unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law. If something arrives damaged we pay the return postage. A refund is started the same day and lands in three to five bank days, on the card that paid.

  • Do you gift wrap?

    €4 a parcel: a grey board box, claret ribbon and a card written by hand at the counter with whatever you dictate. The packing slip goes out without prices, so nobody unwraps a number.

  • What happens with customs outside the EU?

    Goods leaving the EU are zero-rated, so the price you pay us carries no Austrian VAT — and the import VAT and any duty are then collected by the courier before delivery. We cannot pay it for you and we would rather say so on this page than let it arrive as a surprise.

  • Is the maker’s own price marked up?

    No. We buy at the workshop’s trade price and sell at the price the workshop itself charges, so the address on the box costs you nothing. Every product page names the workshop, and our handling fee is €0.

  • Is this the trademarked one?

    No, and we do not pretend otherwise: the two famous versions are sold only by the houses that own the names. This is our bakery’s recipe, at a third of the airport price.

  • Can it be a gift with no prices inside?

    Yes — choose gift wrap at checkout and the packing slip goes out without prices, with your message hand-written on the card.

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