CHEESE CAKES: This is a great dessert for festive occasion. It combines the crispness of filo pastry with the melt-in-the mouth-cheesec cake filling, really yummy.

WARM CHEESE CAKE WRAPPED WITH FILO PASTRY:

 

 

 

cheese Cake:

    3 pkgs.(750 gm)cream cheese, softened     

    1 cup sugar

    3 eggs                                                                     

    1 ½ tsp. grated lemon & orange rind

    ½ tsp. vanilla extract                                               

    ½ cup white chocolate, melted

    ½ cup +3 tbsp. 10% cream                         

3 sheets of filo pastry

melted butter for brushing

 

 

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch spring-form pan and line it with wax paper.

 

Beat cream cheese and sugar together until smooth and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add cream, vanilla and grated rinds. Blend in well.

 

Add a little of cheese mixture into melted chocolate then stir chocolate into cheese mixture. Mix well; then pour batter into prepared pan. Set pan in a large baking pan filled with boiling water coming half way up the sides of pan. Bake for 1 hour or until cake is set and slightly browned, adding more boiling water to pan if necessary to keep up water level.  Remove from oven. Cool and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

 

To Serve:  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Brush 3 sheets of filo pastry with melted butter. Cut cake into slices. Wrap each cake slice with 3 layers of pastry, trimmed and cut to size to form a “package”. Brush each package with melted butter. Bake 10 minutes or until pastry begins to brown. Transfer to serving plate.