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Fig and orange goat’s cheese cake recipe and menu for this Saturday’s marmalade tea

May 13, 2015 8 Comments Filed Under: Food, Recipes, Uncategorized

This Saturday I’m hosting a marmalade and citrus themed ‘secret’ tea party. There are still some tickets left so if you are an afternoon tea fan, do come!
Just like Paddington Bear, I’m a marmalade lover. Award-winning marmalade maker Viv Lloyd has sent me some marmalade for the occasion.

Teapot cocktail:
Bucks fizz with blood orange juice
Sandwiches:
Marmalade
Onion marmalade
Smoked salmon, cream cheese and kumquat zest
Home-made tea cakes laced with orange flower water
Scones with citrus jams, clotted cream
Orange Upside Down cake
Orange truffles
Chocolate coated candied orange
Fig and Orange goat’s cheese cake.
Tea: orange pekoe

Tickets are only £35, you can book here. It takes place at my house. 
Fig and Orange goat's cheese cake

Fig and Orange goat’s Cheese cake recipe:

This recipe is an adaptation from a recipe in MsMarmitelover’s Secret Tea Party book. I’ve always loved baked cheesecakes. Probably the best I’ve ever had is in Paris, in the Jewish quarter,  Rue des Rosiers, at a place more famous for its fantastic falafel, L’as du fallafel. But do try the cheesecake there, a fudgy, stick to the palette of your mouth, dense creamy delight. Using goat’s cheese enhances the acidity of a cheese cake. It’s not very sweet so I also added figs, orange zest and drizzled orange honey over the top. After I made it I thought a ginger biscuit base would work very well so next time I’ll do that.

You’ll need a springform pan of about 23 cms diameter.

Base:
200g ginger, Nice or digestive biscuits, crushed
50g salted butter, melted.

Filling:
3 eggs, separated
750g soft tangy goat’s cheese
250g mascarpone or cream cheese
200g caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla paste
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
20g cornflour

5 figs, split into quarters, but not cut down to the bottom

50ml of honey, liquid not set
Juice of half the orange

Grease the cake tin with butter

For the  base, whizz the biscuits in a food processor until they ressemble fine breadcrumbs. Add the melted butter and mix well.
Spread the biscuit mix all over the bottom of the cake tin, press well into the corners.
Chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 170C.
For the filling mix the goat’s cheese, the mascarpone, the sugar, the vanilla, the orange zest, the cornflour and the egg yolks together at a slow speed in a food mixer. Then in a separate  bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff. Gently fold the egg whites into the goat’s cheese mixture.
Remove the base from the fridge and tip the goat’s cheese mixture into the cake tin.
Bake in the bottom half of the oven for 50 minutes, covering the top with foil and removing the tin foil for the last 20 minutes. Leave to cool to room temperature then place it in the fridge to chill.
Slice up the figs and pile on top.
Mix the orange juice and the honey and drizzle over the figs and cake.
If the honey is set, warm for 30 seconds in the microwave.
This is best made the day before eating.

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  1. Rosie alittlelusciousness

    May 13, 2015 at 11:03 am

    Wow that looks good! Am busy this Saturday but am hoping to make one of your supper clubs/teas soon 🙂

    Rosie xx

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    • Kerstin Rodgers aka MsMarmiteLover

      June 6, 2015 at 8:52 am

      Hope you can make it for another Rosie x

      Reply
  2. Anonymous

    June 3, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    I've always wondered about goat's cheese in a cheesecake but been too scared to try it out. This looks delicious, especially with figs.

    Reply
    • Kerstin Rodgers aka MsMarmiteLover

      June 6, 2015 at 8:52 am

      It adds to that fudgy texture that I love so much in baked cheesecake…

      Reply
  3. Unknown

    June 26, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    I doubt you will find this cake or any cheesecake at l'As Du Falafel in Paris since it is a kosher meat restaurant, therefore they don't serve milk or cheese.

    Reply
    • Kerstin Rodgers aka MsMarmiteLover

      June 27, 2015 at 10:55 pm

      Well I lived in Paris for six years and used to go there often for the cheesecake. And kosher diet has a choice of milk or meat. I don't recall any meat there however. But I promise you I ate their cheesecake and it was brilliant. Also please don't be anonymous. If you want to criticise that's totally fine, but have the courage of your convictions and put your name.

      Reply
  4. Stephanie Jones

    October 10, 2019 at 8:31 am

    This looks amazing and can’t wait to try it! But do you know if this freezes well?? 🙂

    Reply
    • msmarmitelover

      October 10, 2019 at 11:22 am

      Yes it does Stephanie.

      Reply

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