It was exam period and all that (ok, that is a terrible excuse), but I've got a little trick up my sleeve to make you forgive me. It comes in the shape of a cookie, but it actually tastes like cheesecake. Oh, pardon me, I don't think I've made myself clear enough: It tastes like Oreo cheesecake. Yeah.
My friends and I used to have a hardcore Oreo-loving phase in high school, which resulted in making several Oreo cheesecakes. The real badass 20,000 calorie kind with like a kilo of cream cheese and 4 boxes of Oreos, but that's an entirely different story.
Those cheesecakes take forever to make and are, as you can imagine, super heavy. I remember wanting to make something that tasted like the cheesecake, but simpler to make and transport. So I found these babies. The original recipe is from the brown eyed baker, but mine is a lighter (and maybe yummier) version.
At least it has William's stamp of approval (and he isn't a stamp tramp like Marshall), who was overjoyed when he came through the door and saw I had made these cookies. They're one of his favourites and he is quite picky.
This is all you need:
- a box of Oreos (16 Oreos)
- a box of cream cheese (175g)*
- 50g of butter
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar (90g)
- 2/3 cup of flour (80g)
- vanilla sugar
- a pinch of salt
*I took Philadelphia Balance... you know, summer's coming up, gotta start that diet somehow... ha ha.
What to do:
- Preheat oven to 375°F/200°C and line a baking tray.
- Dump all the Oreos in a bowl and crush them with a fork (or use the technique of your choice).
Put them away before there are none left.
- Take a different bowl, beat the soft butter and cream cheese together until creamy.
- Add the sugar and vanilla sugar, mix well.
- Add the flour, mix well.
- Grab a tablespoon, and use it to make spoonfuls of the dough. Then roll those dollops of dough in the Oreo crumbs, and place on the lined baking tray.
It should look a little like this. I didn't literally roll the dough in the crumbs, I just took a spoonful and put the spoon in the crumb bowl, the stickiness of the dough did the rest of the job.
- Pop them into the oven for 15 minutes. They will be neither really brown nor hard (they're cheesecake cookies, remember?)
Grab one and start chomping... I'm sure you'll find a reason why you deserve one... or four.
Cheesecake heaven with the advantage of simple prep, simple eating and "few" calories (everything is relative, right?).
Now, with the sugar in your blood, I'm sure all is forgiven!
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