Orange Cheese Cake Recipe

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Ingredients

BASE

  • 1 slice 8" chocolate sponge cake

    • CREAM CHEESE MIXTURE

    A

  • 500 g of cream cheese
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 50 ml of milk
  • 1 orange, squeezed juice
  • grated zest of 1 orange
  • 2 tbsp of orange liqueur, optional
  • 50 g of plain flour, sieved

    • B

  • 2 egg whites
  • 90 g of caster sugar

    • Chocolate Ganache

  • 150 g of cooking chocolate
  • 50 g of dairy whipping cream

    • Preparation

    1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
    2. Line a 8" round cake tin with grease proof paper and put in a piece of prepared sponge cake.
    3. Use beater to beat cream cheese, egg yolks and milk until smooth.
    4. Add in orange juice, orange zest, orange liqueur, plain flour and stir until well mixed and smooth.
    5. Whisk egg whites and caster sugar at high speed until soft peak is formed.
    6. Mix into cream cheese mixture in 3 batches.
    7. Pour the mixture onto sponge cake and level the surface.
    8. Steam bake the cheesecake in the preheated oven at 200°C for 15 minutes or until the surface is lightly brown.
    9. Reduce the heat to 150°C and bake for another 50 minutes or until cooked.
    10. Turn off heat.
    11. Leave cake to cool in oven with door ajar for 1 hour.
    12. Remove the cake from tin.
    13. Chill in the fridge for at lest 4 hours.

    Chocolate Ganache Preparation

    1. Double boil cooking chocolate and dairy whipping cream until melted and very smooth.
    2. Spread chocolate ganache on the surface of cheesecake and decorate with orange.

    Baking Tips and Ideas

    1. Rum liqueur can be used to substitute orange liqueur.
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