For my first cooking experience, I wanted to start out with a bang. I'm obsessed with chocolate, desserts, and basically anything sweet so that's what I decided to conquer first. It just so happened to be one of my roommates birthdays so I figured that was the perfect opportunity to test out my skills. I asked her what her dessert of choice and she chose Oreo cheesecake. Now cheesecake may sound intimidating to a new cook but honestly it was really quite simple. Because I am definitely not to the point where I make my own recipes, I headed to the internet to find one. Thankfully I found a pretty simple one because I didn't want to go too outside the box for my first time cooking. Here is the recipe that I used...
24 Oreo cookies, divided
3 tablespoons butter, melted
3 (250 g) packages of Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
I have to admit, I'm kind of a healthy eater so I used 2 packages of 1/3 fat cream cheese but everything else I followed to the T. First thing I did was preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. I then took about 16 Oreos, crushed them up with my hands, and put the crushed up pieces into a plastic ziplock bag. I then used a potato masher to mash up the Oreos to crumbs because this is what you use for forming the crust. You don't have to use a potato masher to crush them, that's just the best thing I had on hand so feel to get creative haha. Anyway, I then melted the butter in the microwave. I combined the Oreos and butter in a bowl and then added the mixture into the bottom of a 9" springform pan. Here's just a little shot of the mess that I made because in case you didn't know, Oreos are very messy...
After I added the butter and Oreo crumb mixture to the pan, I began to lightly mold it to the bottom of the pan. The 16 Oreos didn't go as far as I thought they would so I crushed up another 3 or 4 Oreos with my hands and added them to the bottom of the pan. After I finished messing with the crust, I then began to make the actual cheesecake. I combined the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in an electric mixer and beat them until they were fully integrated. I then added 1 egg at a time into the mixer and mixed it until it was nice and fluffy. The remaining 8 Oreos were added to the mixture but since you can never have too many Oreos, I ended up adding around 14 total. I stirred in the Oreos though because the mixer would have broken them all into little pieces and I wanted there to be big chunks of Oreos in the actual cheesecake. I then added the cheesecake center to the pan and smoothed it out so that it was even. I had left over Oreos from the pack, so I lined the outside and crushed up a few more but you can honestly use them however you want. This is what the final product looked like before I popped it into the oven for 45 minutes...
Looks pretty good if you ask me haha
The cheesecake then baked in the oven for about 45 minutes and just like that it was done! The ends looked a little overdone in my opinion but you couldn't taste it. I honestly think it depends on your oven and this was the first time I've used this one so it'll take a little bit to get used to. Since cheesecake is obviously served cold, I let it cool till it could be placed in the fridge and then I let it sit in there for about 3-4 hours. We surprised our roommate when she came home and she absolutely loved it! Everyone said it was really good and I had a piece myself and it was quite delicious. Job well done for my first one I'd say. Cleanup wasn't so pretty but the end result was well worth it. Here's a glimpse of what it ended up looking like and I would definitely recommend this recipe for any Oreo or chocolate lovers. Enjoy!
YUM.
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