Shelly's Recipe

OREO CHEESECAKE LIKE THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY'S

Category: Cheesecake

2 tbsp melted butter
1 1/2 cups Oreo Cookie. crumbs
1 1/2 lbs cream cheese
1 cup sugar
5. eggs
1/4 cup flour
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 (8 oz) container sour cream
5 Oreo Cookies, coarsely chopped
10 Oreo Cookies, coarsely chopped

Mix melted butter with Oreo crumbs and press into bottom and sides of a buttered spring form pan. Cover and set aside.

Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar while beating with the mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, while beating with the mixer. Add flour, vanilla, and salt, while beating with the mixer. Add sour cream while beating with the mixer. With a spoon, stir in 5 chopped Oreos. Pour mixture into pan with crust and sprinkle with 10 chopped Oreos. Bake on the top rack of a 325 oven for 75 minutes.

Prop open the oven door and let cheesecake sit in cooling oven for 1 hour. Remove from oven and allow to cool before refrigerating. Refrigerate overnight.