Oreo Crust Cheesecake
Oreo Crust Cheesecake
This is adapted from two recipes I found, but for the crust, feel free to use a store bought crust, oreo or graham cracker. I made this on 2 Feb 2018, easy and excellent flavor.
Ingredients
For the Crust
- 24 Oreo cookies
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
For the Filling
- 500 grams Cream cheese, two 250 gram (8 oz) blocks, room temp
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
For the Crust
- Add the whole Oreo cookies, filling and all to a blender or food processor and process to make crumbs, or for old school, just place in a zip lock bag but do seal and crush with a rolling pin to a good fine consistency.
- Place the crumbs in a bowl and pour in the melted butter and mix to coat all the crumbs with the butter.
- Pour the breadcrumb mixture into your pie dish, firmly press it down firmly on the bottom and sides of the dish, I used a smooth flat bottomed bowl to help with this.
For the Filling
- Preheat your oven to 180 C (350 C).
- With the cream cheese at room temperature, add the sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix until smooth with an electric mixer. Now I don't own an electric mixer, so I had to improvise just a bit. I used a potato masher to to get the cream cheese broken down and softened up with the eggs, once soft, I used a whisk to make a smooth batter. (People have been making cheesecakes before electric mixers and Kitchenaid appliances.)
- Pour the batter into the prepared crust and smooth it out evenly.
- Place on the pie dish on a baking sheet and place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. I checked it at 30 minutes and it was quite loose (jiggly) in the center so I continued for another 10 minutes. At the 40 minute mark, a solid cheesecake. Remove from the oven and place the dish on a rack to cool completely, then cover and refrigerate until use.
- First piece removed, the piece fell apart in places as I did not have the cookie crumbs evenly layered.
Notes
The Cream cheese will cost about 240 Baht for 2 250 gram packages. For 8 servings, this is about 89 cents per serving. Good value overall.
Variants: 1. Serve topped with a fruit filling such as blueberry, cherry, strawberry, etc. 2. Melt a bar of chocolate and mix that in before baking.
Adapted from several internet recipes.
The Real Person!
The Real Person!
I made this on 2 Feb 2018, and was two firsts for me, 1. first time making a cheesecake and 2. first time making a Oreo cookie crust. This turned excellent in taste, however I did have some uneven crush on the bottom so some of that fell apart getting the first piece out, so I will have to make that better next time 😉