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Oreo Cheesecake

Wednesday, 4 Mar 09

Like beauteous Summer, the holidays have come to an end, and much to my dismay, university resumes next week. Studying law and psychology is often stress-filled and exhilarating at the same time – it’s not in many subjects that the lecturer will walk in and announce “today, I am going to teach you how to pick up”, but again, there aren’t many subjects where you’ll be tested on that also!

So in these remaining few days, I’ll attempt to rewind my internal alarm clock so as to go off before 6am (a good two to three hours earlier than what I’ve become accustomed to), revise Public Law, reclaim my mental thesaurus from the soot balls under the bed and do some baking. Just to get back into the mood.

This Oreo cheesecake is absolutely amazing. The baked topping is fragrant with vanilla bean and creamy, not too sweet, but lifted into the realm of decadence by the rich chocolate Oreo cookies that make up the base. Like most cheesecake, it’s not exactly light though – each 10cm springform pan has half a packet of Oreos, and half a large block of cream cheese, so I made two with the intent to share or space out servings on a daily basis, as I’m insisting Tim do (he wasn’t happy about it).

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