Japexican On the GO!: Special for the Sweet Tooth. Oreo Cheesecake

It is no secret that I am not an avid baker, there is something very structured and strict about baking that I really don't enjoy, well, at least that is true for proper baking. Adding the fact that I rarely crave sweets we get to the fact that Minoru Baking is something that happens once in a blue moon. However, when it happens, I try to go to the simple things and the things that don't require the strictness and rigidity that baking usually does.

A few weeks ago, one of my friends turned 27, he enjoys sweets as crazy and I would say any kind of desert is his kind of dish, so to celebrate him I decided to make my Oreo® Cheesecake. We actually ended up eating the cake without him, but that is another story.

So, if you have never baked, and you would like to try something simple as fuck that would wow all the people around you, this is for you. Enjoy, thank me later.

Look at that ridiculously good looking slice!

You will need:

Oreos: Around 20 cookies. Separate the 'cream' and the biscuit. Save the 'cream' we will use it.
Butter: Around 80-90 gr. Most of the normal small butter packages are 90 gr. or are marked to be cut. It is a no brainer.
Cream Cheese: It doesn't have to be Philadelphia. Around 400 to 600 gr. The more you add, the more dense and creamier it will get, the less, the fluffier it will be. So, your choice.
Quark: Here you can use Quark, Sour Cream or Greek Yoghurt, similar results. 4 table spoons + 100gr.
Flour: Just a little bit, about 2 table spoons.
Eggs: 4 seems to be the magic number here.
Vanilla: If you are using vanilla extract use a dash, if you are using vanilla paste use a teaspoon and if you are using actual vanilla pods use one.
Sugar: Between 200-300 gr plus 50 gr. It all depends how sweet you want it, I usually like my things on the less sweet side of the spectrum. Up to you.

The Ingredients

So, lets get things going!

Separate your cookies, keep the white part on a bowl for later use. Take the biscuits and crush them real nice. You can use a food processor, the blender, or a bag and a bash them with the rolling pin. Whatever you want, as long as you arrive to small consistent sized crumbles.
Melt the butter and pour it on the crumbles. Mix it up and you will get a substance that looks like shiny moist dirt. Like the kind of thing you would use in a flower pot. This will become your crust.
Put the crust mix into a baking dish (I like the ones you can separate the walls from the base but any baking dish will do, it is just a matter of ease of serving) and slightly press the mix, make an even layer throughout the dish. Put it in the fridge while you work on the rest of the things.
Take your cheese, quark, vanilla and eggs and whisk them together ( you can use a blender or hand mixer here), slowly add the sugar and the flour. You can also add some chunks of oreo here.
Preheat the oven at 200 ªC.
Pour the mix into the baking dish that has the crust, use the back of the spoon to ease the fall of the liquid and prevent holes in the crust.
Cover it with tin foil and put it on a deep tray into the middle of the oven. Immediately turn the heat down to 160 ªC. Pour one liter of water into the tray to bake in a water bath. Bake for around 40 minutes.
After the 40 minutes, turn off the oven and crack open the oven door and let it gently chill.
In the meantime mix the 'cream' of the cookies with 100 gr of quark, 50 gr of sugar and a bit of vanilla.
Once the cake is cooler, pour the cream on top, spread evenly and finish cooling to room temperature.
Now pop it into the fridge and cool for at least 4 hours, overnight is better.
Serve with some more Oreos on top, just because you can!
Enjoy, make all your friends jealous and all the ladies want you (if you are a dude).