On the Eve, Rach and I decided to bake our midnight away into Christmas!
We decided it had to be something sweet, creamy and simple!
(because we could only manage amateur recipes at the moment, to more hard yummy work ahead!)
So, Oreo Cheesecake it is!
Love the red the strawberries brought to the cheesecake! Hmmm...
And now, introducing the ingredients...
Mix, mix and more mixing. Remember to stir in only one direction.
Pour the cheese mixture onto the oreo base in the tray.
Spread it evenly with a spatula.
Initially, we wanted to use the remaining cream cheese we had to write 'Merry Christmas!'
The plastic bag didn't work well, thus a heart filled with strawberries was born!
Here's the recipe, if you wanna try it out!
Oreo Cheesecake
Serves eight
2 (250g) packages PHILADELPHIA brick cream cheese, softened
18 OREO cookies, mashed (depending on how oreo you want it to be)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
3/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1. Place 12 of the cookies in resealable plastic bag. Flatten bag to remove excess air, then seal bag. Finely crush cookies by rolling a rolling pin across the bag. Place in bowl. Add butter; mix well. Press firmly onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan or tray.
2. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with a whisk/ spatula (we used a spatula) until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
3.Chop or crush remaining 6 cookies. Gently stir half of the chopped cookies into cream cheese batter.
4. Pour over prepared crust; sprinkle with the remaining chopped cookies.
5. Bake 45 min. or until centre is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Cut into 12 pieces. Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.
Our cheesecake was yes, sweet, creamy and utterly oreo-y. But it was too soft. Our mistake was that we used the soft PHILADELPHIA cream cheese in tub instead of blocks. So, do look out for the right type and have fun!
'Till our next bake!
Love, Rach and Via
hello rach n via! what was the temperature u used to bake the oreo cheese cake?
ReplyDeleteHello! Oops, left that out by mistake! Bake at 180 degrees :D
Deletehello! sugar used must be caster sugar? just to recfm that the butter will be in liquid form when mixed into the crushed oreos?
ReplyDeletethanks for the help! :D
Hello! Yes, you're right. We used caster sugar and yes, the butter will be in liquid form :)
DeleteYou're welcome!
hello!
Deletejust read that 18 cookies are needed, 16 used to prepare the base of the cake and another 8cookies for the cheese batter and for the top of the cake, so its actually a total of 24cookies? :D
thanks!
Hello! HA! Oops! Mistake on our part! Actually, only 18 cookies are needed. But we wanted ours to be really oreo-y. So we added more! I'll change the recipe! Thanks for the heads up! :D
DeleteThanks for changing! I was about to ask the same question haha!
DeleteHi, when you mash the oreo cookies do you do it with the cream inside or without? Also, 18 means 18 of one side or 18 with two sides which is 36 cookies?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Hi! We did it with the cream inside. We used 18 whole cookies (with two sides) :)
DeleteAlright thanks so much!! :)
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