Easy Orange Cheesecake

Today, we´re supposed to go to a quilt exhibition in Lower Austria, but then, the weather keeps on  changing so often.... a bit drizzle here, a bit dark clouds there.  And so, we were thinking on wat to do... go to the Saturday flea market?.... still unsure of the weather, we decided to stay home...

Having finished my 2nd handquilted pillowcase ,  I though that it would be  a lovely idea to bake and try a new cheesecake recipe which I haven´t baked before... and so this scrumptious cheesecake was born.  The base dough is so easy to make. Here´s how  I did it and
I´m sure you would love this one.

Easy Orange Cheesecake 

Ingredients

Dough

 180 grams Flour

60 powdered sugar ( you can use sugar substitute of 7 tbsps Stevia powder)

Salt ( dash)

125 grams butter

1 egg yolk

Cheese Fillings

 250 Curd Cheese ( look for  "Quark" as the germans call it)

1 egg and 1 egg yolk ( medium size)

60 grams sugar

1 pack Vanilla sugar

20 grams Cornflour

60 grams liquid butter ( liquify thru microwave oven)

plus: dried beans for blind baking

         2 - 3 oranges thinly sliced, rind, skin  and seeds removed

         confectioner´s sugar or powdered sugar for topping

        

  Preparation:

1. Mix together flour, powdered sugar, 1 pinch salt, cut-up  butter (cubes) and egg yolk in a bowl. Knead til  the dough becomes smooth. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

2 In a bowl combine curd cheese, egg, yolk, sugar, vanilla sugar, starch until all ingredients are well blended. Stir in butter. Mix well. Preheat oven to 190 ° C (fan 170 ° C).

3.Roll out dough on a floured surface until the dough reaches the size of the tart

     form you are using. Place the dough and tuck it on a tart form, you may use a round form or  a square and add a parchment or baking paper on top of it, add the dried beans and blind bake the pastry ( prebaking of the pastry so it won´t make bubbles).

4.  Bake the pastry in  the oven  for around 15 minutes. Remove baking paper and bake pastry for 3-4 minutes more. Remove and allow to cool slightly

4. Peel  the oranges and remove the white skin. Cut the oranges thinly. Remove any existing seeds.

5. Add the cheese filling in the pre-baked pastry and on top of it,  spread the orange slices as toppings and  bake cake in the oven for about 35 minutes. If desired, sprinkle cheesecake with icing sugar. Can be served hot and cold.

I hope you try this easy one .

Enjoy whatever you´re doing!

HAPPY BAKING! 

  

Scrumptious - No Bake Lime Cheesecake + Recipe

No Bake - Lime Cheesecake

Dear friends, here is the recipe of this scrumptious cake which can be easily

prepared for a short time and you don´t even have to

 bake this in the oven.

Ingredients :

200 g Buttercup cookies/ biscuits ( or diet shortbread cookies)
120 g butter or margarine
1 pack Vanilla sugar
5 pcs Gelatine squares ( I used Dr. Oetker´s)
500 g curd cheese
250 g Mascarpone cheese
100g icing sugar or 10 tbsp sugar substitute.
2 tbsp cherry water
2 lime or 1 fresh lemon
250 g whipping cream

1 cup various berries

How to:
1. place the cookies in a freezer bag or sturdy bag and by means of rolling pin or bottle, crush the cookies so they resemble crumbs. Melt the butter and pour it into the crumbs , add the vanilla sugar. Mix all ingredients lightly with your hand, set aside.

2.Line a springform of about 26 cm in diameter, (a springform size for 12 cut cake pieces) with a wax or baking paper, then distribute the cookies mixture into the form evenly & pressing the mixture hard. Place the from in the refrigerator and let it cool for about an hour.

3. Put the gelatine in a container, add cold water just to cover and soak for 5 minutes.

4.Mix the curd Cheese, Mascarpone Cheese and sugar + 2 tbsp cherry water evenly. Wash and dry the lime ( organic lemon could be used instead) and grate its rind.. press to get the juice. set aside.

5. Squeeze the water from the gelatine and slowly heat it until it gets dissolved, then add the lime/lemon juice, add 5 tbsp. of the cheese mixture by & by and then mix this to the Cheese mixture evenly with your mixer.

6. Beat the whipping cream, fold this together with the grated lime/lemon rind into the cheese mixture using wooden spoon...mix thoroughly.

 7. Distribute the cheese mixture into the prepared Springform evenly and refrigerate for about 3 hours..

When cheesecake is already stiff in form, remove the cake carefully from the springform and arrange on a platter.

Toppings : 

 You can add toppings like berries or chocolate... for the berries, you have to remove excess juice if you are using frozen ones. Put  the frozen berries in a sift, then drain its juice til the  dripping of liquid stops.

  For the choco liquid  topping, just melt a small plain chocolate bar with 3 tbsps fresh milk, mix chocolate properly til well blended and pour this on top of the now cold cheesecake .

Add the berries and pour more of the chocolate liquid as in the first photo above.

  

The texture of color of this shot  is slightly different than the other images posted above

 because this shot was taken in the night.

Please take note that, for those of you who are avoiding sugar, you can replace the recipe´s sugar with sugar substitute in powder form, diet ( Shortbread ) cookies can also be used instead of the the normal Buttercup cookies/biscuits. Just a Reminder to all..... remember that diet cookies which are supposed to be sugar free can contain enormous amounts of fat...

A warning to everyone trying-out this recipe, this cake is not for you if you are in the process of having a diet or avoiding fat....!!!


   

Til next,

Mercy

This post is linked to :
google+ communities - Food Bloggers