A small cake is nice when we want a treat just for ourselves or a few people. It requires less ingredients, thus making it also cheaper to bake, and there are no worries about what to do with the rest of the cake if you just wanted a few slices of a cake. Still, you can have 4 big slices or 8 smaller slices from this German style orange cheesecake (käsekuchen).

To have rich citrus flavour cheesecake we are not only using both, orange zest and orange juice, in the cake, but also adding a top layer made with orange juice.

Ingredients: (for 14x6 cm or 5.5x2.5 inches cake pan)

For the cookie base:
125 g / 4.4 oz cookies (Maria, digestive biscuits, Graham crackers or similar)
60 g 0.3 cups unsalted butter (room temperature)
40 g / 3 tbsp brown sugar
Zest of 1 orange

For the filling:
1 egg (room temperature)
70 g / 0.3 cups whipping cream/ heavy cream
160 g / 0.7 cups cottage cheese (quark) or ricotta
30 g / 2.5 tbsp granulated sugar
15 g / 1.5 tbsp cornstarch
60 ml / 4 tbsp orange juice
Zest of 1 orange

For the top layer:
150 - 200 ml / 0.7 cups orange juice
Gelatine for the amount of juice you have
2 tbsp granulated sugar (optional)

Video timeline:
0:00 Introduction
0:34: Making cookie crumb base
2:11 Setting the oven temperature
2:26 Making the filling
5:01 Baking the cake
5:51 Making orange juice top layer
6:56 Removing the cake from cake form
7:16 Time to enjoy the cake

For best results, measure ingredients with a scale. All recipes are made with weighed ingredients using grams. Cup measurements are provided for your convenience.

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Enjoy the orange cheesecake!