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:
- 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.
- All ingredients need to be at room temperature before beginning.
- Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy.
- Keep mixer on a low setting during the mixing and beating process.
- Add sugar gradually and continue beating cream cheese until mixed through.
- Add eggs one at a time and continue to beat until blended.
- Stir vanilla, salt, and flour into cream cheese and egg mixture.
- Add sour cream.
- Turn off mixer and gently stir in the 5 coarsely chopped Oreo cookies with a spoon.
- Pour mixture into springform pan; top with the 7-9 remaining coarsely chopped cookies.
- 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.
- Turn off the oven, prop the door open several inches and let the cheesecake stay in the oven for one hour.
- Cool on wire rack.
- When cool, refrigerate for 24 hours.
Recipe courtesy of: https://www.food.com/recipe/cheesecake-factory-oreo-cheesecake-copycat-267571