Dessert Recipes - Mandarin and Chocolate Cheese Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 50 g/2 oz/ cup butter, melted

• 200 g/7 oz/1 small packet of chocolate rich tea biscuits (cookies), crushed

• 300 g/11 oz/1 medium can of mandarin oranges, drained, reserving the juice

• 15 g/1/2 oz/1 tbsp powdered gelatin

• 225 g/8 oz/1 cup Mascarpone cheese

• 2 eggs, separated

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup soured (dairy sour) cream

• 30 ml/2 tbsp orange liqueur

• Grated rind and juice of 1 tangerine

• Grated chocolate, to decorate

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Method:

1. Mix together the butter and biscuit crumbs and press into the base of a 20 cm/8 in spring form cake tin (pan). Chill while preparing the filling.

2. Chop the mandarins. Sprinkle the gelatin over the reserved juice in a small bowl and leave to soften for 5 minutes.

3. Stand the bowl in a pan of hot water, or heat in the microwave briefly, to dissolve.

4. Beat together the cheese, egg yolks, 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup of the sugar, the soured cream and liqueur until smooth. Stir in the dissolved gelatin.

5. Fold in the tangerine rind and juice and the chopped mandarins. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then whisk in the remaining sugar.

6. Fold into the fruit mixture and spoon over the biscuit base. Chill for 3-4 hours until set before decorating with grated chocolate.