Oreo Cheesecake

I made this recipe for Christmas Eve and it was my first time to make a cookies and cream flavoured cheesecake. It turned out suprisingly delicious! :)

Ingredients

For the base:

- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar

- 150g butter

- 250g Digestive biscuits

For the cream:

- 16g (1 packet) vanillin

- 100ml fresh whipping cream

- 20g cornstarch

- juice of 1/2 lemon

- 2 whole eggs and 1 eggyolk

- 600g Philadelphia

- 100g sugar

- 8 chopped oreo biscuits/cookies

For the topping:

- 200ml sour cream

- 16g (1 packet) vanillin

- 2 tablespoons icing sugar

- 4 to 8 chopped oreo biscuits/cookies

Procedure

1) Finely crush/chop Digestive biscuits. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Combine the chopped biscuits, melted butter and brown sugar in a bowl.

2) Grease a cake pan, preferably in a circle opening with a diameter of 22-24 cm, cut a disc of parchment paper the same diameter as the bottom of the pan and two strips of the same height of the edges, and then line the pan itself.

3) Put the cookie mixture on the bottom and the sides of the pan leveling it with the help of a spoon. Put the pan in the fridge for an hour.

4) Preheat oven to 180°C. Place in a large bowl the eggs, vanillin and sugar and beat the mixture until it becomes homegeneous. Add the cheese and mix well until it becomes creamy and free of lumps.

5) While stirring the mixture constantly, add lemon juice cornstarch and the whipping cream (in liquid form). Mix everything together. Crush/chop the oreo biscuits and add it into the cream mixture.

6) Take the biscuit base off the fridge and pour the cream into it. Level it and bake at 180° for 30mins. then lower the temperature to 160° for another 30-40mins.

7) If after the first 30mins you'll notice that the surface of the cheesecake begins to darken, you can cover it with a sheet of aluminum foil. Once cooked, turn off the oven and let the cheesecake rest for 30mins in the oven with the door slightly open.

8) Once the cheesecake cooled off, mix the sour cream, vanillin and icing sugar and pour it on the cheesecake. Crush/chop the oreo biscuits and put it on the cheesecake as topping. Store the cheesecake inside the fridge for 6 hours. Serve and enjoy it! ;)

Hope you'll like this Cheesecake variation.

If you have any recipe request, you may email me at itsmekanon@gmail.com

Chewy Chocolate Crinkles

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been a while since my last blogpost.

Yesterday was the first day of the year and I spent it alone at home so I decided to bake some crinkles and I wanna share to all of you how I made them :D

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder

- 2 cups of white sugar

- 4 medium eggs

- 1/2 cup vegetable oil

- 2 cups of all purpose flour

- 2 teaspoons of vanilla

- 2 teaspoons of baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- icing sugar

Procedure:

1) In a bowl, mix cocoa powder, white sugar and vegetable oil. Mix well. Add eggs one at a time and vanilla.

2) In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into cocoa mix. Cover the dough and let it rest in the ref for 3-4 hours.

3) Take the dough off from the ref. Preheat oven at 175°C. Line a pan with a parchment paper. Roll the dough into balls (big as cherries) and coat with icing sugar before placing onto the pan.

4) Bake for 10-12mins. Pull out from the over after baking.

Chocolate Crinkles are perfect for holidays specially on Christmas. It is also easy to make and unexpensive. :)