Orange cheesecake

General

• This is a no-bake cheese cake. Just take love and time.
• Preparation time: 45 minutes + 6 hours chilling
• Makes one 23-cm cake.

Ingredients

Biscuit base

• Butter 100 g, diced
• Digestive biscuits 170 g, fi nely crushed
• Brown sugar 2 Tbsp, fi rmly packed
• Cocoa powder 3 Tbsp, sifted
• Almond flakes 50 g, toasted

Filling

• Orange juice 125 ml, strained
• Powdered gelatine 1½ Tbsp, dissolved
• in 80 ml water
• Cream cheese 500 g, diced
• Castor sugar 120 g
• Orange zest grated from 2 oranges
• Lemon juice 1½ Tbsp, strained
• Thickened cream 400 ml

Procedure

Biscuit base

Prepare biscuit base according to separate recipe

Filling

1. Stir orange juice into gelatine. Set aside.
2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, orange zest and lemon juice until smooth.
3. Pour in gelatine mixture and mix until combined.
4. Blend in cream.
5. Pour filling on biscuit base. Cover cake pan. Refrigerate
6. overnight. Decorate cake as desired before serving.