Pumpkin orange cheesecake with chocolate and confit oranges in sugar

Pumpkin orange cheesecake with spicy biscuit base. It is an autumn dessert, as well as a cheesecake with a festive atmosphere. Oranges, spices and chocolate are indispensably associated with Christmas. So let's celebrate the whole year!

Oranges and tangerines with green, shiny leaves appeared in stores. The fruit looks as if it has just been plucked from the tree. They are hard to resist, so a pair ended up in the basket. Of course, the prettiest ones and those with the most leaves... The leaves perfectly complemented the decoration of the cheesecake. Can you eat them? I don't know, so don't try...

Ingredients

BOTTOM

300 g shortbread spice cookies

50g butter

CHEESE MASS

500g mascarpone

700 g semi-fat curd ground at least twice

350 g pumpkin purée*

100g sugar

juice and grated peel from 1 orange

juice of 1 lemon

3 eggs

1 vanilla pudding

CONFIT ORANGE IN SUGAR

2 oranges (preferably seedless)

sugar - as much as oranges weigh

JUMPER

100 g dark chocolate 70%

50ml cream 30%

50 ml orange confit syrup

Execution

BOTTOM

Line a cake tin with a diameter of 26 cm with baking paper. Mix the cookies with butter to wet sand, put the bottom of the springform pan, put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Cheese mass

Mix all the ingredients for the cheese mass, except for the grated rind, to a homogeneous mass. At the end, add the grated orange peel and mix.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C (top-bottom).
Pour the cheese mass into the springform pan on the bottom of the cookies. Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 45 minutes. When the cheesecake is baked, let it cool down in the slightly ajar oven.

CONFIT ORANGE IN SUGAR

We weigh the oranges and measure out the same amount of sugar. The fruit is thoroughly scrubbed and brewed twice. Cut into slices about 3 mm thick. Put it in a saucepan, sprinkle with half the sugar and pour in enough water to cover the fruit. Cook covered over low heat for 30 minutes. We're studying. After cooling down, add the rest of the sugar and cook over low heat for about 1 hour, this time cover the pan halfway with the lid so that the syrup can slightly reduce. Place the finished orange slices on the baking paper to cool. Pour the syrup into the jar. Orange slices prepared in this way can be stored in the fridge for up to a month.

Topping

Chocolate finely and place in a bowl. In a saucepan, boil the cream with orange confit syrup and pour the hot liquid over the chopped chocolate. After two minutes, mix thoroughly and pour over the cheesecake.

Finally, decorate with confit oranges.

Enjoy!

* Pumpkin purée - Cut the pumpkin in half, remove the seeds along with the fibrous pulp, and cut into small pieces. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, skin side down, and bake for about 40 minutes at 200°C, until soft. After cooling, separate the flesh from the skin and blend to a smooth purée.

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