A teenager’s  dream cake!   

Ingredients:

• 1 pkg (1 1/4 lb) chocolate sandwich cookies
• 1/3 c butter, melted
• 32 oz cream cheese (brick not whipped/soft) cut into chunks,  room temperature
• 1 c sugar
• 1/3 c whipping cream
• 8 eggs
• 2 Tab flour
• 2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

1. Preheat oven 300°.
2. In a food processor, whirl 1/2 package of cookies, including the filling, until they form fine crumbs.
3. Mix in butter.
4. Press crust into a 9 inch cheesecake pan to cover bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides.
5. Chill crust about 20 minutes.
6. Using an electric mixer, mix cream cheese, sugar, and whipping cream until smooth.
7. Add eggs, flour, vanilla.
8. Beat until smooth.
9. Pour half the mixture over the chilled crust.
10. Break remaining cookies in half and scartter over the mixture, overlapping cookies if necessary.
11. Pour remaining mixture over cookies.
12. Bake at 300° for about 1 hour and 20 minutes – until the top is golden and it jiggles slightly in the center when gently shaken.
13. Take cake from oven and let cool on a rack.
14. Cover and cold overnight.

Serves:  12 – 16

Source:   Sunset magazine