Orange Cheese Cake

This was my second attempt in baking this orange cheese cake. The first one was given away as a friend's birthday gift. Too bad forgortten to take a picture. This time the cake was over baked. I set the temperature to 180°C. So you can see a small crack on the top and the colour was quite dark. Anyway the cake turned out still in one piece. he..he..The texture of this cake is moist and soft. I don't really like this cake. The taste of the cheese is very very mild, and the orange flavour is also very mild. Maybe in my next baking of this cake I will add orange paste to enhance the flavour. Otherwise it is too bland for me. Tastewise, I still prefer lemon cheesecake. I like to eat very rich cheese cake for example American Cheese Cake, New York Cheese Cake and others. For those who likes only faint hint of cheese flavour, I will recommend you to try this. You will like it.

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Recipe:

Ingredients:

(A)
250g cream cheese,soften
250 ml milk
120 g butter

(B)
50 ml fresh orange juice
2 nos orange rind, grated

(C)
6 nos egg yolks
60 g sugar

(D)
70 g plain flour/cake flour
20 g corn flour

(E)
6 nos egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
60 g sugar

Method:
* Melt cream cheese and milk over a double-boiler, drain to get smooth mixture.
* Remove from heat and add in butter, stir until butter melted.
* Add in ingredients (B) and (C), mix well.
* Slowly add in ingredients (D), mix well until mixture becomes thick.
* wh isk egg white and cream of tartar till frothy.
* Add in sugar and continue whisk until peak foam
* Mix egg whites to cheese mixture with a spatula.
* Pour batter into a 10" lined square cake tin.
* Bake at preheat oven 150°C with water bath for 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Kitchen notes:
* wrap aluminium foil completely around the bottom and halfway up the sides of the pan.
* Cover cheesecake with aluminium foil loosely when half way baked (about 20-30 mins) to prevent cheesecake over browning.

* The cake will have pulled away the edges of the pan. Remove cheesecake from oven and carefully run a small knife around the edge of the pan to loosen any bits that might stick to the pan.