Delicate Cheesecake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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12-14
ingredients
- 20 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 10 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 1⁄3 cups granulated sugar
- 8 large eggs, separated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon orange flower water
- 1 teaspoon freshly-grated lemon, zest of
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1⁄4 cup cornstarch
- icing sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Butter a 12 inch cake pan.
- In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add half the sugar, the egg yolks, orange-flower water, zest, vanilla, almond and lemon extracts and beat mixture on lowest setting for 2-3 minutes, or until well-combined.
- Add cornstarch and beat until just combined.
- In a bowl with cleaned beaters, beat whites until they hold soft peaks; beat in remaining sugar, a little at a time, and beat until the whites hold stiff peaks.
- Fold the whites into the cream cheese gently but thoroughly.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
- Put into a larger baking pan and add enough hot water to large pan to come half way up sides of cake pan.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes, or until top is light-golden-brown and set.
- Remove cake and let cool completely.
- Chill overnight.
- To unmold: Dip cake pan in a large pan of hot water for 5 seconds, invert a platter over it and invert cheesecake onto platter.
- Dust top of cake with icing sugar.
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Reviews
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Very light with a delicate flavor. It's texture was more like a sponge cake, rather than a cheesecake, because of the whipped egg whites. Even though it was very light (and appeared delicate), it cut into slices and served nicely. I used Splenda in place of sugar, and that worked perfectly. I will make this again.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.