Ingredients
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1 1/2 cups Oreo cookie crumbs (about 18 to 23 cookies finely chopped)
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2 tablespoons melted butter
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1 1/2 lbs cream, cheese-24 ounces (3 blocks of cream cheese)
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1 cup sugar
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5 large eggs
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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2 teaspoons vanilla
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1/4 cup all-purpose flour
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8 ounces sour cream
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5 Oreo cookies (coarsely chopped for the batter)
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7 -9 coarsely chopped Oreo cookies, for the top of cheese cake
Instructions
- 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 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 the sour cream.
- Turn off the 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 cheese cake stay in the oven for one hour.
- Cool on wire rack.
- When cool, refrigerate for 24 hours.