OREO CHEESECAKE BITES
Crush 15 Oreo Cookies and mix with 2
T. melted butter.
Use a 9 inch square pan or a 7x11 pan.
(this size is important) Line with foil
and wrap outside the pan. Spray with Pam
Press the Oreo mixture into the
bottom
Beat 2- 8 oz. blocks of cream cheese
with
½ C. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
½ C. sour cream
When nice and smooth gently fold in
10 more Oreo cookies, each broken into 4 or 5 pieces. Pour onto the crust and spread to the
corners. Bake at 325 for about 30-35 minutes
or until the center is set. (It will
start to brown just a little on the top)
When cold pull out of the pan
in the foil and cut into squares about 1 inch wide. Line them up squarely on a cookie sheet and
drizzle with the chocolate as described below.
Melt 6-8 oz. each of white and milk
or semisweet chocolate (separately) I like the milk for this. You can use chocolate chips or chopped bulk
chocolate. (Guittard for chips) If you use white chocolate chips they are not really chocolate and
don’t melt as well so add 1 tsp oil and stir well after melting. (Bakers sells a White Chocolate cube at the grocer about the right size) The microwave has a way of ruining
chocolate. I wouldn’t use it for this. You can melt the chocolate in a double boiler or
put the chocolate in a bowl over some very hot water and stir until melted. Chocolate is sensitive to high heat and will get grainy, so if
you do it in the double boiler just get the water hot and remove from the heat. My favorite way to melt chocolate is in the
oven overnight with the oven light on.
It produces enough heat to melt the chocolate. It doesn’t even need chopped if you have a
block. So I like to make the cheesecake
one day, cool overnight, and that night put the chocolate in the oven to melt
and drizzle the next morning.
Spoon the chocolate into a small
ziplock bag and squeeze it all into a corner, twist the top a little. Snip a very small corner off the
end. Drizzle stripes of the brown
chocolate going one way and then stripes of the white chocolate going the other
way. They end up looking very
professional.
You can freeze these for a month or
two if they last that long.
