Orange Up-side Down Amaretto Cheese Cake

For a long time I was longing for Cheese Cake, those dense and sweet smoothness and a crunchy base with lots of calorie,which obviously I don't need, but what can one do...can't long for a cheese cake shunning the calorie...you have to compromise sometime!! But alas here in Belgium  can't get those...not in the local bakery,which they seem to have aplenty, not that I am complaining. Belgian dessert concept  is very different from American  or English dessert. Can't find cakes in any bakery shop, no not even in supermarket.Here dessert means tart and only tart, with a base like bread, a lot different from which I had in UK, those biscuit like shell. And no, if you are thinking ..."oh! how lucky she is..she obviously get's to eat lots of chocolate tarts" then sorry to say can't get those either! Being a chocolate country you will think otherwise, but sadly speaking 'No haven't seen one yet!' Here you can get cakes if you order for birthday or wedding. So bye bye to easy solution,buying of the self and curl up on the sofa with the telly on, after dinner.No I have to make one. So  I chose an upside down one, as I was wanting to do an upside down cake also...so voila Orange Up-Side Down Amaretto Cheese Cake!! the story behind amaretto is that I had some available in my pantry...so that's that, all cleared.

You will find two kinds of cheese cake one is the set kind, with gelatine and the other one is baked, like mine one. For the baked cakes crust, you should blind bake for few minutes as it can get soggy,which happened with me! So next time am baking it first. You can also coat with chocolate or brush egg white or mix the butter in room temperature instead of melting it. These are few tips which I looked up, after mine got melted away. But melted or not it was damn tastey.But next time I sure will follow those tips and tricks. So enough of chit chat and lets straight get to the point, which obviously is sharing the recipie with you.



Take 2 oranges and skin them, remove any white stuff that sticks to its body. Keep them whole and cut in round shape. Pre-heat the oven to 350F/150C. Take a 9" round pan,mix 2tbsp brown sugar and 2 tbsp melted butter and spread evenly at the bottom of the pan. Then arrange neatly those orange roundels on top of that butter mix,cutting necessarily to make an even layer. Place cherries in the center of the oranges. ix 2 cups of crushed amaretto biscuits, 2tbsp granulated sugar and 3tbsp melted butter in a bowl and spread evenly and press gently with a bowl, at top of  the oranges. Let it sit in the fridge while we make the cheese mixture. In a bowl mix 2x 200gm tub fresh cheese,3/4 cup granulated sugar,3/4 cup sour cream vanilla essence/orange liquor and mix well. Beat in 2 eggs, one at a time. Don't get tempted to over mix. Now pour this mixture over the biscuit base and bake it for 55-60 min. or until just set in the middle. Let it cool down to the room temperature, the run a knife around the pan and invert it on a plate and fridge it for min. of 3hr or if possible over night...!!