Orange Cream Cheese Dessert

Today comes our Christmas Menu Dessert. Very orangey and very cream-cheesy. Simply yummie! You have seen this cream cheese dessert already, but here is the recipe.

The dessert consists of three parts: the cheese cream, the orange jelly and the cookie.

That's the cookie:

50 g ground hazelnuts
50 g butter
75 g flour
40 g sugar

Mix all the ingredients and one tablespoon water until they form a dough.

Preheat the oven to 180°C and roll out the dough 5mm thin. Cut out shapes with the dessert forms you are using. Mine, as you can see, were circular. You need four.

For the orange jelly:

1 orange
200 ml orange juice
2 leaves gelatin

Fillet the orange and set aside. The fillets are for decoration. Cook the orange juice and reduce to 2/3. Soak two gelatin leaves and dissolve in the hot orange juice. Set aside.


Now comes the cream:

3 leaves gelatin
250 g curd cheese
100 g crème fraîche
juice and grated zest of one orange
100 g sugar
30 ml orange liquer, e. g. Cointreau or Grand Manier
250 g single cream

Soak the gelatin. Mix curd cheese, crème fraîche, orange juice and zest and sugar until well combined. Heat the liquer and dissolve the gelatin in it. Thoroughly stir the gelatin mixture into the curd mixture. Finally, beat the single cream to stiff peaks and fold under.     

So, let's assemble our fruity-creamy Dessert.

Put each cookie on a seperate plate and a setting form around it. Divide half the cheese mixture into the four forms. Let set in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Then, pour about 2 tablespoons of the orange jelly into each form. It might be a bit more, depending on the size of your setting forms. Freeze for 10 more minutes. Finally, pour in the remaining cheese cream and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.  

 

When the desserts shall be served, gently push them out of the forms and decorate with the orange fillets.

 

Be careful, they are really orangy! Love them!