- Everyone you're watching Preppy Kitchen
in the new kitchen.
I'm John Kanell
and I teach you how to make
delicious home cooked dishes
to share with your family and friends.
Today by popular demand
we're making this crazy
delicious Oreo cheesecake.
I wanna thank all my followers
who recommended this
Oreo cheesecake recipe
after watching my Oreo balls video.
So delicious, I can't
wait to share it with you.
Let's get started.
I can't tell you how excited I am
to be in my new kitchen filming
and no, it is not done yet.
But this is done enough to film in
and if you hear any murmurs
or shakes or whatever else,
there's a lot of work going
on in the house today,
so bear with me.
Let's get started.
We're gonna be doing some
pulsing in the food processor.
If you don't have one or
you wanna like it out,
just get a plastic bag and start crushing
one sleeve or 12 Oreos right in there
and let's pulse it up.
Don't mind if there's like
some big pieces in there,
that's totally fine and actually good.
All right, these guys are gonna get folded
into the batter later on.
So let's set them aside for later.
And now we're going to
make the Oreo crust.
On my cheesecakes,
I like having the crust go
on the bottom and the side
but a lot of people just want
the bottom for some reasons
so if that's the case,
just use less Oreos.
This is 24 Oreos, but
I'm gonna use about 30.
Whenever I make any recipe with Oreos,
I always have to buy an extra
package or two and hide them
because someone named Brian
just like sneaks and bites like
(mimics nibbling sound)
pulse pulse.
Here I have half a cup or
113 grams of melted butter
which in a drizzle it has...
This looks perfect.
Sometimes when you process the butter
and there can be a little
pool in the center,
that's fine.
Just mix it in by hand with your spatula
but this cannot be perfect.
I'm doing an optional step here.
It's not a crazy person steps though
because if you ever gotten a cheesecake
off of this springform base
you know, it can be a little harrowing.
You've been through a lot you're like
this cheesecake it has to work out.
A little bit of parchment
paper at the bottom
will make things so much easier.
I am channeling some
elementary snowflake vibes
and I'm just going to
fold it several times
and then estimate the
center and cut cut cut.
Ah! Look at that perfect.
You can add a little bit
of butter at the bottom
just to help it stick.
It's not like you're buttering
and flowering a pan though.
It might be 13 degrees today
so this butter is rock hard.
This is like one of my East Coast lessons.
I'm learning that like
seasonal baking means
that things are different for butter.
Okay, just tap that in there.
Dump this in.
Spread it out.
I want to spread towards the edges,
that's where most of the crumbs are going.
I only need just a
little bit on the bottom.
Now we're gonna get a glass.
You want to have like a
nice vertical side to it.
And just tamp tamp tamp
tamp tamp tamp tamp.
So move those crumbs on up
and if you have like a
blank space on the bottom,
don't worry about it.
There we go, nice.
And if you want to make a mud pie,
which is like so rich and
chocolatey and delicious,
click up here for that recipe.
It is just the business
it's like very indulgent.
This gets set aside into
the fridge to chill out
for however long it takes
you to make the butter
you just wanna firm it up a bit
so it's gonna be a bit more stable.
Into the fridge we go.
This is the fridge.
(chuckles)
For the filling we need room
temperature cream cheese.
So if it's really cold
like it is right now
you're gonna want to have
the microwave warm this up for you.
Take it out of the foil first though.
I set this really close to the oven
and it warmed up really nice.
If it's not room temperature,
you'll have like little,
little granules of cream cheese
and it just won't be
as smooth as you want.
Alright, that's 24 ounces or
three eight ounce packages
of room temperature cream cheese.
You can add in your half
teaspoon of salt right now,
as well as one full cup of sugar
but well let's run this first.
One cup 200 grams of sugar.
You let this run for a minute.
But, first let's just
give it one little scrape.
Now, run it on high,
let it run for like a minute, two minutes.
You want to have a nice creamy
cream cheese sugar combo.
Look at this.
I'm gonna run this on low right now
and sift in my three tablespoons
are about like 24 grams of flour.
Now I'm going to add in
half a cup of sour cream.
Yes, nice creamy cheesecake.
All right, mix that sour cream in there.
Mmhh! Look at this.
I'm gonna scrape the bowl down but...
I will scrape the bowl
down but I want to show you
these are like beautiful
glossy homogenous peaks.
That's what you want.
If you're really struggling
with your cheesecake
and it totally happens,
it's not your fault all the time.
It's never your fault.
So if you have like lumps no matter what
you can make this in a
blender or food processor too.
Did you know that?
It'll come out very smooth.
But you don't want to mix too
much air in there so you know
don't go crazy.
We're so close to being done with this.
Cheesecakes are really a joy to make.
All right here I have four eggs,
no, no, no, three eggs and one yolk,
they are room temperature.
We're gonna add them in slowly.
One at a time.
You do what you can and lastly...quickly
Is this done?
No, no,
we're missing a couple things.
Nice splash of vanilla.
So there you go, it's a good splash.
And two, the Oreos.
Okay, let's add those in but
we're gonna fold them by hand.
And here's the deal,
you need to dump all the
Oreos in that you roughly chop
or you can layer them in.
I'm going to layer them in.
Look at this, oh my gosh!
Okay, I don't want to over mix this.
Fine, you can have some streaks of Oreos,
and a couple blank spaces too.
Let's grab our crust and ready to go.
All right, we're going to pour a batter
into like three layers.
So pour a third of the batter in first,
spread it out just a bit.
Now you can add in a sprinkling
of your roughly chopped
or just you know, broken up Oreos.
It'll look nice and give
you a little bit of texture
and play of tastes.
Add a little bit more.
I set aside 12 Oreos for the rough chop
but you could use less,
I think I might skimp a bit.
Unlike a normal cheesecake
where you kind of go crazy
about having like a
perfect finish, no cracks,
yada yada yada!
This one's easy breezy
like it's gonna have little cracks in it.
We're also covering the
top with a beautiful
black and white chocolate ganache
and it's gonna look
just bananas beautiful.
And I'm using kind of a smaller
like I think it's like an eight
or 8.5 inch springform pan.
If you want to go for the bigger ones,
use a bigger one.
Your cheesecake will just
be a little bit thinner
but totally delicious.
Last layer I'm just gonna
cover up these Oreos
and call it a day.
And if you think I'm not
gonna lick this bowl clean,
you don't know who I am.
Pop this into the oven,
center rack, 350 10 minutes,
then take the temperature down to 300.
Don't open the oven,
leave it closed please.
Bake it for 45 to 50 minutes
until the center is wobbly but set.
You'll see some like
cracks, it'll rise up.
It'll be a little bit brown on
the sides just a little bit.
And then you're going
to leave it in the oven
for about an hour.
You can take it out, cover
it and chill it overnight
or chill for four hours minimum, okay?
Your cheesecake really
needs to chill and set
that is the best way to
have it nice, cuttable
it's not going to be messy.
You're gonna love it.
Make it a day ahead or
make it in the morning.
Don't try and rush this step.
This one chilled overnight,
this might swap out
and I'm just running
a knife along the edge
to make sure that there's no stray bits.
Although you know, they are hard to find.
Release that springform pan.
This is the tricky part
but you're going to use your palette knife
and this is where I'm so glad
that I used that parchment
paper round at the bottom.
Yeah that smells so good.
It smells so good!
Let's just take the paper
it'll come right off
and the whole presentation
will atleast look a little bit more clean.
There will be a couple of crumbs.
Don't worry about it.
Now it's time for the white and
dark chocolate ganache, ah!.
For that white chocolate ganache,
we're adding in one
cup of white chocolate.
I'm using a double boiler
but you could also use a microwave.
It's totally up to you.
I've been burnt, like chocolate before
burning in the microwave
so the double boiler seems a bit safer
just simmering water
not touching the bowl.
So once you see the chocolate
start to melt in the bottom,
just move it around.
It's the safest thing to do.
One-third of a cup of cream
goes in here and stir.
And I'm actually going
to take off the heat now.
The dark chocolate is way more forgiving
so I'm just gonna add in about
two tablespoons of the chips.
One tablespoon of cream
and zap it in the microwave
at 50% power in like 30 second intervals
so just stir, stir, stir.
You don't need a double boiler for it,
but you could pop this
on the double boiler
if you wanted to.
So my ganache really
sets up pretty quickly.
We're going to pour this
onto our chilled cheesecake.
Look at that, gorgeous.
We're gonna spread this out
now towards the edges of it
'cause it's a big pool
and the edge is getting
covered with whipped cream,
so don't worry about that.
All we're doing is making a
nice little window to gaze into.
Now a couple dollops of dark chocolate.
Perfect, we're done.
Just kidding.
Okay, now we're using my
favorite kitchen tool, the skewer
and we're just going
to loop this in and out
to make a nice marbleized pattern.
Look how gorgeous that is.
The key is to not over mix
'cause then it'll muddy things up.
But you can have fun with it,
just trying to over mix.
This can hang out in
the fridge for a minute
while I make that whipped cream,
which you know is super quick.
We're crowning this cake
with some beautiful
and easy whipped cream.
So one cup of cold, heavy whipped cream
into the bowl of your stand mixer.
One quarter cup of powdered sugar,
and just a little splash of vanilla.
whip it up.
Keep an eye on this.
There we go, perfect.
I want thicker peaks for
this so on the stiffer side
because we're gonna be
piping the whipped cream.
Okay, fill your piping bag up.
If you don't want to pipe this
you could just make little
dollops with your spatula
but it looks so much nicer.
To get this look you're
gonna pipe in a spiral
as you move along
and yes, I have the cake on a turntable.
It makes it so much easier.
A turntable is really a must,
if you like cake decorating, which I do.
But if you don't want to do this
regularly dollops totally
work nice as well.
Little coils and if you
need to stop you can stop,
It's not,
like for example if you didn't
make enough whipped cream.
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
That was just close enough.
We're gonna garnish this
cake with some Oreos,
but it'll look nicer
if they're cut in half.
So I'm just gonna score mine
with a sharp knife and chop.
Someone was nibbling on my Oreo supplies
so I'm down to the last ones.
Just space them evenly apart,
you don't have to stress
out about it too much.
This is actually all chilled and setup
that ganache really hard and quickly.
This room is like a
refrigerator right now.
(chuckles)
If you liked this recipe,
check out my mud pie.
It has an Oreo crust chocolate, everything
and you will love it.
But in the meantime, it's time for a bite.
Oh my gosh! That was so good.
I kind of want just to keep like.
I need to thank all of you
for pushing me to make
this recipe and saying
yes, I want an Oreo cheesecake up
because you're the reason I
made this and it is really good.
So head over to the blog,
get that recipe and bake,
bake, bake, bake, bake.
You're gonna love it.
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