Orange Election Day Cheesecake

My editor, Maria Guarnaschelli, adores the combination of chocolate and orange so I created this cake for her. A true orange taste is hard to achieve but this cheesecake and orange curd pack a powerful orange punch.

The design of this cake came about when I was decorating a cheesecake for the press party for The Cake Bible in the fall of 1988. I had an inspiration to encir