Lemon And Almond Cheesecake

Recipe Ingredients

		Almond Dough Base
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	Flour
1/2 cup	73g / 2.6oz	Ground almonds
2 tablespoons	30ml	Sugar
1		Salt
3 tablespoons	45ml	Unsalted butter
1		Egg yolk
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla extract
		Cheese Filling
2 tablespoons	30ml	White rum
2 tablespoons	30ml	Lemon juice
1		Unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 lbs	681g / 24oz	Cream cheese - without vegetable gum, softened
1/2 cup	118ml	Cream
4		Egg whites
2/3 cup	131g / 4.6oz	Sugar
		Sugared Almonds
1 cup	93g / 3.3oz	Blanched sliced almonds
1 tablespoon	15ml	Egg white
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Sugar
		Lemon glaze
2 tablespoons	30ml	Lemon juice
1/3 cup	78ml	Water
1		Gelatin
2/3 cup	157ml	Apple jelly
1		Yellow food coloring

Recipe Instructions

For the dough, mix dry ingredients in a bowl and rub in butter with fingertips until very fine, but still cool and powdery. Whisk egg and vanilla and stir into dough with a fork. Press dough

together in bowl and turn into a buttered 9-inch spring form pan. With floured fingertips, press

dough evenly into pan bottom. Dock dough with a fork and bake at 350F about 15 minutes, until golden. Cool the base in the pan.

For the filling, combine the rum and lemon juice in a bowl and sprinkle the gelatin on the surface. Allow to soak for 5 minutes, then place the bowl over a small pan of gently simmering water to melt the gelatin, about 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the bowl from the pan and cool the gelatin slightly.

Beat the cream cheese by machine until it is soft and light, scraping the bowl and beaters often. Beat in the cream smoothly. Set aside the cream cheese mixture. Combine the egg whites and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and heat over simmering water, whisking constantly until the egg whites are hot and the sugar is dissolved. Beat on mixer with whip until cold and firm. Beat 1/4 of the cream cheese mixture into the dissolved gelatin, then beat the gelatin mixture into the remaining cream cheese. Fold in the meringue. Pour the filling into the prepared pan and refrigerate to set, about 6 hours or overnight.

For the almonds, combine almonds and egg white in a roasting pan and rub between palms of hands to coat evenly. Add sugar and stir in. Bake at 325F about 20 minutes, stirring often, until well toasted and sugar has caramelized slightly. Cool and store in a tin or jar at room temperature.

For glaze, combine juice, water and gelatin and allow to soak. Bring jelly to a boil and add gelatin mixture; bring to a boil and remove from heat. Cool and pour onto chilled cheesecake. Unmold cheesecake and press sugared almonds around side.

Yield: one 9-inch cheesecake

Source:
Cooking Live Show #8973

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