INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 Cups of Oreo Crumbs

• 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
• 1 1/2 LBS Cream Cheese
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 5 Large Eggs
• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 2 Teaspoons Vanilla
• 1/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour
• 8 Ounces Sour Cream
• 5 Oreo Cookies
• 7-9 Coarsely Chopped Oreo Cookies

 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix melted butter with Oreo crumbs and press in the bottom of a greased 9-inch springform pan. Cover bottom and 1/2 – 1 inch up the sides with Oreo crumbs. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
2. All ingredients need to be at room temperature before beginning.
3. Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy.
4. Keep mixer on a low setting during the mixing and beating process.
5. Add sugar gradually and continue beating cream cheese until mixed through.
6. Add eggs one at a time and continue to beat until blended.
7. Stir vanilla, salt, and flour into cream cheese and egg mixture.
8. Add sour cream.
9. Turn off mixer and gently stir in the 5 coarsely chopped Oreo cookies with a spoon.
10. Pour mixture into springform pan; top with the 7-9 remaining coarsely chopped cookies.
11. Place pan on top rack and in the middle of a preheated oven at 325 degrees and bake for 60 – 75 minutes, or until it jiggles slightly in the middle when the pan is gently shaken.
12. Turn off the oven, prop the door open several inches and let the cheesecake stay in the oven for one hour.
13. Cool on wire rack.
14. When cool, refrigerate for 24 hours.

 

Recipe courtesy of: https://www.food.com/recipe/cheesecake-factory-oreo-cheesecake-copycat-267571