Portuguese Cheesecakes With Cinnamon And Honey Recipes

PORTUGUESE CHEESECAKES WITH CINNAMON AND HONEY

Steps:

• TO make pastry:.
• Combine flour and sugar together in food processor, then add butter and process until dough forms. Add a little water if necessary. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• To make filling:.
• Combine sugar and ricotta. Add egg yolks one at a time. Mix until smooth. Add cinnamon and mix well.
• To make:.
• Preheat oven to 200 Degrees Celsius.
• Roll out dough thinly and cut into 14 cm squares.
• Place a spoonful of mixture in centre of each square and fold over the corners, leaving some filling visible.
• Place cakes on buttered baking tray and bake 20 minutes until golden brown.
• To serve:.
• Dust cheescakes with cinnamon and drizzle with honey. Serve warm.

QUEIJADAS DE SINTRA (PORTUGUESE CHEESE TARTS WITH CINNAMON)

Steps:

• For the pastry: Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl.
• With a pastry blender, cut in the shortening until the texture of fine meal.
• Forking briskly, drizzle just enough ice water over the mixture to make it hold together.
• Shape into a ball, wrap in wax paper, and refrigerate several hours.
• Meanwhile, prepare the filling: In a food processor fitted with the metal chopping blade (or in a blender or electric mixer set at highest speed), process the mozzarella, butter, sugar, and cinnamon about 60 seconds nonstop until smooth and creamy.
• Scrape down the work bowl sides with a rubber spatula and beat 60 seconds longer.
• Note: It will take longer for the electric mixer to reduce the mixture to creaminess, perhaps 3 to 4 minutes of steady beating.
• Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add the flour and pulse the motor on once or twice to blend.
• Transfer the mixture to a small bowl; cover and chill several hours.
• When ready to bake the queijadas, preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Divide the pastry in half and roll, first one half, then the other, as thin as paper, on a lightly floured pastry cloth with a lightly floured, stockinette-covered rolling pin.
• Cut into rounds with a 3 1/2 inch cutter.
• Also re-roll and cut the scraps.
• Fit the pastry into plain or fluted tart tins measuring 2 1/2 inches across the top.
• Set the tins on baking sheets, then half-fill each tart shell with the cheese mixture.
• Bake uncovered for 18 to 20 minutes, just until the filling is puffy and a rich amber brown.
• Remove the tarts from the oven, cool until easy to handle; then using a small pointed knife, gently pry the tarts from the tins.
• Serve at room temperature.

SPICED CINNAMON HONEY CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 160 deg C (325 deg F) - line a 20 x 20 cm dish with baking paper {extending over the dish's edges}.
• Combine the Biscuit crumbs and the melted Butter - press into the bottom of the prepared dish - chill for 20 - 30 minutes.
• Beat together the Cream Cheese, Caster Sugar, Honey, Vanilla and the Mixed Spice until smooth - beat in cream and the Egg Yolks.
• Whisk the Egg Whites until stiff - fold into the Cream Cheese mixture - pour onto the crust and bake 30 minutes - switch off the oven but leave the cheesecake in the oven to cool off {oven door slightly ajar}.
• Chill at least 3 hours or overnight.
• Sprinkle with Cinnamon Sugar before slicing into squares.