Oreo Cheesecake

A very tasty recipe! This recipe is similar to our more traditional Cheesecake recipe. This recipe is from Dan & Laura's amazing cheesecake book with more than 100 different recipes!

Ingredients:
Crust:
16 Oreos (crush)
4 T butter (melted)

Filling:
3 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese
1 C sugar
2 T flour
1/4 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/5 C heavy whipping cream
1 C semi-sweet chocolate chips (melted), optional
6 Oreos (coarsely crumbled)

Oreo Topping:
1 C heavy whipping cream
1 T sugar
6 Oreos (coarsely crumbled)

Directions:
1. In bowl, mix crust ingredients until they are well combined.
2. Press crust on bottom of 8.5" spring form pan.
3. In order to harden, refrigerate crust until needed.
4. Preheat oven to 500 F.
5. In large bowl, combine cream cheese and sugar.
6. Beat with electric mixer until smooth.
7. Add flour, vanilla, eggs, egg yolks, cream, and melted chips.
8. Beat at high speed just to blend.
9. Fold in crumbled Oreos.
10. Pour mixture into spring form pan.
11. Bake 10 minutes at 500 F.
12. Reduce oven temperature to 250 F and bake about 50 minutes.
13. To reduce cracking on surface, cool in oven for one hour.
14. Remove from oven and allow to cool to room temperature.
15. Chill at least 3 hours.
16. Immediately before serving, make Oreo Topping.
17. In small bowl, combine cream and sugar.
18. Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form.
19. Spread whipped cream over chilled cheesecake.
20. Sprinkle crumbled Oreos on top.

Serves 10-14.