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Citrus Cheesecake With Marmalade Glaze

While the cheesecake has been around for centuries, it was perfected in the 1920s by New York delicatessens. It first appeared at Arnold Reuben's eponymous restaurant on East 58th Street and soon was featured at Lindy's on Times Square and at Junior's in Brooklyn. Marmalade tops this luscious cake; it also has citrus peel in the filling.

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Crust
1   Egg - separated (large)
1 tablespoon 15mlFresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon 5mlGrated lemon peel
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlVanilla extract
1 1/4 cups 78g / 2.8ozAll-purpose flour
1/3 cup 65g / 2.3ozSugar
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozUnsalted butter - (1 stick) - room temperature
  Filling
3   Cream cheese - (8 oz ea) - room temperature
1 2/3 cups 329g / 11ozSugar
2 tablespoons 30mlCornstarch
1 tablespoon 15mlFresh lemon juice - plus
2 teaspoons 10mlFresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon 15mlGrated orange peel
2 teaspoons 10mlGrated lime peel
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlGrated lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVanilla extract
3 teaspoons 15mlEggs (large)
1 cup 237mlSour cream
2/3 cup 157mlOrange marmalade
  Orange slices
  Fresh mint sprigs

Recipe Instructions

For Crust: Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 425 degrees. Butter 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2-inch-high sides.

Whisk egg yolk, lemon juice, lemon peel and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Blend flour and sugar in processor. Add butter and process until coarse crumbs form. With machine running, add yolk mixture and blend until moist clumps form. Press dough onto bottom and 1 1/2 inches up sides of prepared pan. Freeze crust 10 minutes.

Whisk egg white until foamy. Brush crust lightly with some egg white. Bake until crust is pale golden, about 15 minutes. Cool on rack while preparing filling. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees.

For Filling: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese in large bowl until smooth. Add sugar; beat until well blended. Beat in 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, all citrus peel and vanilla. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Beat in sour cream.

Pour filling into crust. Bake cake until puffed and cracked around edges and center moves only slightly when pan is gently shaken, about 55 minutes. Remove from oven. Run small knife around sides of pan to loosen cake. Cool cake in pan on rack. Refrigerate cake overnight.

Boil marmalade and 2 teaspoons lemon juice in saucepan until slightly reduced, about 2 minutes. Spread warm glaze atop cake. Chill cake 10 minutes. Remove pan sides. Transfer cake to platter. Garnish with orange and mint.

This recipe yields 8 to 10 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, September 1999

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