Mandarin - Orange Cheese cake

== Description ==
Mandarínu-ostakaka - Mandarin-orange Cheese cake
This is a lovely cheesecake, rich and smooth. It is commercially available in Iceland. The cake is relatively cheap when you buy it ready-made, but I think making it yourself adds to the enjoyment of eating it. Serves 10-12.
== Ingredients ==
* 1⅔ cup graham cracker crumbs
* 5 tbsp sugar
* 5 tbsp butter, soft
* 90 g lemon gelatin (Jell-O or Royal for example)
* 1 cup boiling water
* 500 g cream cheese, unflavoured, softened at room temperature
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* ½ cup sugar
* 1 cup cream, whipped
* 1 can (480 g) mandarin orange sections
* ½ cup juice from mandarin oranges
* 2 tbsp lemon juice
* 2 tsp unflavoured gelatin powder or 2 sheets unflavoured gelatin
== Directions ==
# Mix together cracker crumbs, 5 tbsp sugar and soft butter.
# Press into a the bottom and slightly up the sides of a spring mold (22 cm in diameter).
# Bake for 8 minutes at 175 °C.
# Remove and cool.
# Dissolve the lemon gelatin in boiling water.
# Cool.
# Be careful, you don't want it to set completely! mix together cream cheese, ½ cup of sugar and vanilla extract.
# When the lemon gelatin is about half-set, mix carefully into the cheese mixture, little by little.
# Fold in the whipped cream and pour into the mold over the crumb shell.
# Cool for about 1 hour.
# Drain the mandarin oranges well, reserving ½ cup of the juice.
# Add lemon juice.
# Warm up the juice and dissolve the flavourless gelatin in it.
# Cool, stirring occasionally.
# Arrange the orange sections on top of the cheesecake in a pattern.
# Gently spoon or brush the mandarin gelatin over the top.
# Cool until set.
# Remove the sides from the mold and serve.
Category:Cheesecake Recipes
Category:Cream cheese Recipes
Category:Gelatin Recipes
Category:Icelandic Desserts
Category:Mandarin orange Recipes
Category:Vanilla extract Recipes