OREO Chocolate Cream Cheesecake

Ingredients

• 32 oz philadelphia cream cheese softened
• 4  eggs 
• 32  oreo chocolate creme cookies divided
• 8 oz baker's semi-sweet chocolate cooled melted
• 1 cup sugar 
• 1 tsp vanilla 

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• knife
• blender
• springform pan

Directions

1. Heat oven to 325F.
2. Quarter 20 cookies; set aside. Finely crush remaining cookies; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan sprayed with cooking spray.
3. Bake 10 min.
4. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with mixer until well blended.
5. Add chocolate; mix well.
6. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Gently stir in 1-1/2 cups of the quartered cookies.
7. Pour over crust.
8. Sprinkle with remaining quartered cookies.
9. Bake 50 min. to 1 hour or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours.