Recipe: Ceejamon's Hella Tasty Cheescake

[ceejamon]

Just in time for the hollidays, here's my super secret recipe. My family has mandated that I make this EVERY holliday gathering.

Ceejamon’s Hella Tasty Cheesecake

What you need for the crust:
One row of a bag of regular Oreo cookies (NOT Double Stuft)
4-5 tablespoons melted butter

What you need for the filling:
2 1/2 pounds cream cheese, room temperature
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 yolks
5 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sour cream (3/4 cup and 1/4 cup)
12 ounces white chocolate, melted and slightly cooled

Get to making it:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch spring form pan.

Crush the Oreos (doing it in a freezer bag is easiest). Blend the cookie crumbs with the melted butter, press it into the bottom of the pan, and chill. Make sure the whole bottom of the pan is covered.

In a mixer with a whisk attachment, place the softened cream cheese and whip it. Add the sugar and continue to mix until blended. Add the flour and salt and blend. Add the yolks and eggs gradually, scraping in between then add the vanilla. Add 3/4 cup of the sour cream and mix in.

In a small bowl, whisk the remaining 1/4 cup sour cream with the cooled melted white chocolate, then marble it into the filling.

Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 250 degrees and bake for 1 more hour. Then, turn the oven off and let it cool in the oven 1 hour. The cake will still shimmy, but it is done, it will set up as it chills. Refrigerate the cake overnight. Remove from the spring form pan, slice with a hot, dry knife, and serve.


VARIATIONS:

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Sometimes I make a topping, like raspberry or something. For raspberry, just heat up some good quality raspberry jam on the stove and after it's thin, drizzle it on top of the cake. Toss on some fresh raspberries if you want, too.

Also, try seedless blackberry jam for something a little "different"

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One year I couldn't find the right size springform pan (I was in the process of moving) so I used two smaller pans. In one, I added several spoonfuls of peanutbutter and some milk chocolate shavings to the filling before I put it into the crust. It changed the consistancy quite a bit, but if you like PB it's awesome.

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I hope you guys like it. Stay tuned for more recipes. Cooking is my favorite pasttime, so I have tons of them.

Edit: No pics, sadly. My cats destroyed my digicam.

[Gene Simmons]

Ceejamon, I look forward to every post you make in here. It sounds so good!

[Vigilante]

Pics. Of cheesecake. And cats.

I don't even like cheesecake and that sounds good.

[maahes]

Originally Posted by Don_Juan

Ceejamon, I look forward to every post you make in here. It sounds so good!

QFT
im gona get fat though trying all of these

[andrewmarks]

Sounds Hella Tasty. Thanks for the recipe!

[SonofDionysus]

When you say 2 yolks and 5 eggs is that just 2 yolks from eggs and 5 additonal eggs?

[ceejamon]

Originally Posted by SonofDionysus

When you say 2 yolks and 5 eggs is that just 2 yolks from eggs and 5 additonal eggs?

You'll use a total of 7 eggs. With two, just use the yoke. For the other 5, use the whole eggs (minus the shell of course)

Make yourself an eggwhite omelette if you don't want to be wasteful, but I usually just let the whites go down the drain. Eggs are cheap.

I made this cheesecake just a few days ago for our Thanksgiving feast, and DAMN I should have taken a picture of it. It turned out PERFECT, no cracks at all. I drizzled the raspberry on top, added a few fresh raspberries, and some milk chocolate shavings. It disappeared pretty quick.