Sweet Cream Cheese Dessert Cake Recipe
Ingredients
1 recipe Easy Jam Sponge Cake
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons kirsch
4 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
Juice of 1 orange, strained
1 recipe Basic Chantilly Cream
1 pint whole strawberries
Directions
Prepare cake as instructed.
Let cool, but do not slice and fill.
Combine egg yolks and sugar in mixer bowl; beat with electric mixer until thick and creamy.
Gradually pour in kirsch; beat well.
Cut cream cheese into small cubes.
Add to egg-yolk mixture gradually; beat well after each addition.
Beat 10 minutes or until smooth.
Line small mold with plastic wrap; let wrap extend over edge of mold.
Spoon cream-cheese mixture into mold; place in freezer 2 hours.
Trim edge from cake to fit mold; place on edge from cake to fit mold; place on serving dish.
Sprinkle cake with orange juice.
Lift cheese mixture in plastic wrap from bowl; invert onto cake.
Remove plastic wrap carefully.
Spread rim of the cake with Chantilly Cream, using pastry bag filled with star tube.
Pipe little mounds of cream around base; top with strawberries.
Let cool, but do not slice and fill.
Combine egg yolks and sugar in mixer bowl; beat with electric mixer until thick and creamy.
Gradually pour in kirsch; beat well.
Cut cream cheese into small cubes.
Add to egg-yolk mixture gradually; beat well after each addition.
Beat 10 minutes or until smooth.
Line small mold with plastic wrap; let wrap extend over edge of mold.
Spoon cream-cheese mixture into mold; place in freezer 2 hours.
Trim edge from cake to fit mold; place on edge from cake to fit mold; place on serving dish.
Sprinkle cake with orange juice.
Lift cheese mixture in plastic wrap from bowl; invert onto cake.
Remove plastic wrap carefully.
Spread rim of the cake with Chantilly Cream, using pastry bag filled with star tube.
Pipe little mounds of cream around base; top with strawberries.