Oreo cheesecake

We had a birthday this week, and it seems there finally been a movement away from pavlova.  Thank heavens.  I actually don't like pavlova particularly, so when everyone was choosing pav as their birthday cake I was a bit sad.  Cheesecake is the new pavlova in this house, so much more scope for creativity and tastes so much better.

We had a cheesecake for the family party, and I made the raspberry one I've already blogged about, except with blue berries, which was tasty and delicious.  Then for the friend party, I made an Oreo cheesecake.  I quite like Oreos, and I'll buy them if they are on special.  They weren't on special this week, and I felt a bit gypped having to pay full price for them, but this is what happens when it's a birthday.  I've also paid $7 for a punnet of strawberries for the birthday pav in May.  Which didn't please me either.

So the Oreo cheesecake was requested, but I didn't like the recipe I found online, and there has just been a cheesecake cooked on MKR that scored two 10's, so I looked at that recipe, which wasn't an Oreo one, then I had a look at the raspberry/blueberry/ricotta one, and decided to reinvent the whole thing.  Fortunately it was a great success.  I also managed to cut it into exactly the right number of pieces for the guests present.  Which is good and bad - bad because there was no piece left over to have with my coffee this morning.  Good because it made me look super efficient and clever at dividing things up nicely.

OREO CHEESECAKE

1 pkt chocolate ripple biscuits 

100g butter500g cream cheese

125g sour cream

3 eggs

170g brown sugar 

12 Oreos

Preheat oven to 150 degrees (this was fan forced)

Crush chocolate ripple biscuits (I did all this in the thermomix, and it didn't explode and give me third degree burns, that poor woman, horrific, but don't purée 100degree stuff at high speeds and expect things to end well, just saying).

Melt butter in the microwave.  Technically you could do this in thermomix too, but I'm all for making washing up easy, and tipping the bikkies out into another bowl and adding the butter pre melted is in line with that personal philosophy.

Grease a flan or whatever you are using, I have a lovely glass fluted flan pan that I got for my 21st that I always use for cheesecake.  Press biscuit mix into the pan and refrigerate while you do the other bit.

Rinse the thermomix and give it a dry.  Whiz up the rest of the ingredients, except the Oreos in thermomix until smooth.  You can do this just as easily with beaters/mix master/food processor.  I use the thermomix because that's what I have.

Pour the mixture into the biscuit  

Chop up the Oreos, I cut them into quarters, and poke them into the top of the cheesecake.

Bake for 30 minutes until set.  It will brown a little on top.  My oven is quite fast I think, so maybe the cooking time will be longer in another oven.  I'm always burning things in my oven, because it cooks quicker than I expect.

Once it's cool, refrigerate until serving.  Keep it covered so it doesn't absorb fridge smells.  

Very happy with this one.  I should have taken a photo, but I didn't.  Again.  Whoops.