Baked Peach Cheesecake Pie Recipe
- 200 gm plain flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 125 gm very cool butter
- 3 Tbsp. ice-cool water (approx)
- 300 gm cream cheese (leave at room temperature)
- 2 x Large eggs (separated)
- 75 gm castor sugar
- 1 Tbsp. grated orange rind
- 2 Tbsp. orange juice
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. corn flour
- 175 gm canned peaches
- Method:SIFT flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
- Dip the whole piece of butter into the flour.
- Place a grater above the flour, take the butter out and grate it into the flour.
- Mix grated butter into the flour.
- Rub in using your fingertips till butter is well distributed and the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Don't overwork the mix.
- Add in ice-cool water gradually, stirring the flour and butter mix with a palette knife.
- When mix starts to bind well, stop adding water.
- Knead the pastry lightly for a short while till smooth.
- Wrap pastry with plastic food wrap and refrigeratefor 30 min in the refrigerator.
- Roll out pastry between two sheets of plastic wrap.
- Peel top layer of plastic from pastry.
- Roll pastry round a rolling pin.
- Bring rolling pin over a 21 cm flan tin.Ease pastry carefully into the tin.
- Trim edges.
- Prick the base with a fork and refrigeratein the refrigerator for 30 min.
- Bake blind in preheated oven at 190 C for 10 min then remove beans and paper and bake for a further 20 min or possibly till lightly browned.
- Filling ingredients:300g cream cheese (leave at room temperature)
- 2 Large eggs (separated)
- 75g castor sugar1 tbsp grated orange rind2 tbsp orange juice1 1/2 tbsp corn flour175g canned peaches
- Method:PREHEAT oven to 180 C. Drain peaches well then slice thinly.
- Arrange slices proportionately over the base of baked pastry case.
- Beat cheese till light then add sugar and continue to beat till creamy.
- Add in egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each one is added.
- Stir in orange juice and rind.
- Sift in corn flour and blend well.
- In a medium bowl, beat egg white and add in a healthy pinch of salt.
- Sprinkle 1 tbsp castor sugar gradually when egg white is almost hard.
- Go on beating till egg white turns stiff.
- Fold egg white mix into creamed cheese mix.
- Carefully pour filling over the peaches.
- Bake in preheated oven for 1 to 1 1/4 hrs or possibly till cake is hard.
- Leave cake in the oven for 15 to 20 min with oven door ajar.
- Remove the pie and cold completely on a wire rack.
- Chill cake overnight then turn out.
- Sift icing sugar over and slice into eight pcs and serve.
flour, salt, butter, water, cream cheese, eggs, sugar, orange rind, orange juice, corn flour, peaches
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/baked-peach-cheesecake-pie-75216 (may not work)