Citrus Cheesecake – Serves 12-16
ingredients
Ginger Crust:
- 1 1/2 cups ginger snap crumbs, (approximately 36-1 ½ inch cookies)
- 5 tablespoons Butter, melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
For Filling:
- 5 eggs, separated, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons Flour
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 1 tablespoons Grated orange peel
- 2 teaspoons Grated lemon peel
- 1/4 cup Stonewall Kitchen Mimosa Jam
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 3-8oz. Packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- To make ginger snap crumbs; place ginger snap cookies in a food processor and process until fine crumbs are formed.
- Combine ginger snap crumbs, melted butter, and brown sugar. Mix thoroughly. Press crumb mixture in the bottom of a 9” spring form pan. Bake crust in a 350 degree F oven for 8 minutes.li>
- Place egg yolks in a mixer (or use a hand mixer) and beat on medium speed five minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine the sugar and flour before adding to the egg yolk mixture.
- In a small saucepan heat the butter, marmalade, lemon and orange zest.
- Add the cream cheese, salt and marmalade mixture to the egg yolks. Mix until uniformly blended.
- In a separate bowl, whip egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into cheese mixture.
- Whip cream until stiff peaks form and fold into cheese mixture.
- Pour cheesecake mixture over prepared crust. Place pan in center of the 350 degree F oven. Bake for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 225 degrees F and bake an additional 30 minutes or until center of cheesecake barely jiggles when the pan is tapped. Cool completely. Cheesecake can be prepared a day ahead and kept covered and chilled in the refrigerator.
- Once cheesecake is completely cooled, decoratively top cheesecake with your favorite berries. Melt 2 Tbsp. Of Stonewall Kitchen Mimosa Jam and brush over berries as a glaze.