Cheese cake - orange chocolate chips

Cheese cake – orange chocolate chips

All ingredients at room temperature – except the crust

Pre- heat oven to 350.

Buttered spring form pan. I use release butter foil for the bottom and just butter the sides.

Crust: five minutes preparation time

Ginger snaps or chocolate cookies pulverized.

One stick unsalted butter melted. I do this in the microwave.

Some sugar if you want, but it makes it more like a toffee bottom.

Mix together and press into the bottom of the pan, and then freeze for at least an hour, the butter must be hard.

Filling: all of these ingredients must be at room temperature. Fifteen minutes preparation time.

·         4 pgs cream cheese

·         1 teaspoon of vanilla

·         ½ jar orange marmalade

·         ½ jar lemon curd

·         1 cup bakers sugar or less

·         4 eggs – one at a time and beat in between

Fold in: put all of these stuff on top and fold in, but not too much stirring, maybe two strokes, because that can cause the cake to crack.

Orange zest of one large orange.

Orange slices, chopped – seeds and white membrane removed, also add the juice that is on your cutting board from cutting up the oranges. Fold in a ton of high quality chocolate chips, I prefer 60% Ghirardelli.

Bake for an hour or until the center has a slight jiggle and the top is light brown. Some of the cooking happens while cooking, in other words, after the baking the center will firm up.

Cool for at least a half hour, the cake will shrink in from the edge of the pan, then take a knife around the edge, and then refrigerate for six hours or overnight, while still in the pan, before releasing the pan to serve.

You can store in the freezer for months is your wrap sections in plastic wrap and then foil.

The cake might crack in the cooling down process. I`m told that many thing cause cracking, cold eggs, too much beating. I do not know what else. My cakes often crack, but I do not care!

Decoration: if you must, or to cover a big crack from the cooling down process, but the cake is plenty rich is own.

·         ½ cup whipping cream

·         2 tablespoon baker`s sugar

·         Beat the above

·         Fold in zest of orange or lemon

·         Spread on the cake form the center to outward.

Bon apetite!