"Ravenlynne" > wrote:

>
>I'm making this recipe for Sacher Torte:
>http://www.aboutvienna.org/recipes/sachertorte.htm
>
>The glaze calls for 150 g chocolate and 75 g coconut shortening. I've
>never even seen this....what can I substitute? Google searches yielded
>not a lot except instructions to not use regular shortening.

Hydrogenated coconut oil is available here in Australia as a
product called copha. It comes in small solid blocks in the
chiller section of supermarkets.

It is not too popular these days for obvious reasons but is
an essential component of chocolate crackles.

Cheerz Wabster.