Ingredients
Scale
- Crust-
- 4 ½ cups Oreo cookies (crushed)
- 1 cup roasted peanuts (chopped)
- ½ cup butter (melted)
- Filling-
- 2lbs cream cheese (softened)
- 5 eggs (at room temperature)
- 1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter
- ½ cup whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Topping- - 3 ounces sour cream
- A ½ cup of sugar
Instructions
- Put Oreo cookies and peanuts in a food processor and grind. Mix ground Oreo cookies and peanuts with the melted butter. Press the mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 10” springform pan to make the crust.
- To make the filling- In a large bowl beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth. Add eggs one at a time and beat after each egg is added. Add sugar, vanilla extract, peanut butter and whipping cream. Mix until smooth. Fold in pieces of Reese’s peanut butter cups with a rubber spatula. Pour filling into prepared crust.
- Place into the oven and bake at 275 degrees for 1 ½ hour or until firm and lightly browned.
Combine sour cream and sugar and pour over the cheesecake. Return cheesecake to the oven and bake for 5 minutes. - Remove from the oven and allow cheesecake to cool for 1 hour. Place into the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.