Chilled mandarin cheese cake
Ingredients for base
- Digestive biscuits 8 ounces crushed
- Walnuts finely chopped 4 tbsp
- Butter melted 100 gm
Ingredients for filling
- Curd cheese 8 ounces
- Cream cheese 4 ounces
- Caster sugar 10 tbsp
- Lemon juice 1 tbsp
- Orange juice ¼ cup
- Eggs 3
- Gelatin 2 tbsp leveled
- Orange essence ¼ tsp
- Orange color few drops
- Fresh cream whipped 8 ounces
Ingredients for topping
- Orange jelly 1 packet dissolved in ¾ cup water
- Mandarin slices
- Fresh cream whipped
Method for base
- Crush the biscuits mix them with chopped walnuts and melted butter and press into a base of a well greased 9 inch spring foam pan and bake for 10 minutes.Dissolve gelatin in ¼ cup orange juice. beat curd cheese, cream cheese and egg yolk with 6 tbsp of caster sugar, beat till well mixed add dissolve gelatin and orange color.
- Beat egg white with the remaining 4 tbsp caster sugar until stiff. Fold into cream mixture.Whip cream till stiff, fold into the cheese mixture, mix all well, and pour over the biscuit base, chill until set.Top with orange jelly cubes, mandarin slices and whipped cream.Serve chilled.
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