Recipe: Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Squares

Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Squares
Source: Philadelphia Cream Cheese

30 chocolate sandwich cookies (like Oreos)
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
4 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
20 chocolate sandwich cookies, chopped, divided

Place 30 cookies in food processor. Process 30 to 45 seconds or until finely ground. Add butter; mix well. Press into bottom of greased or foil-lined 13x9 inch baking pan.

Mix cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs; mix until blended. Gently stir in 1 1/2 cups of the chopped cookies. Pour mixture into crust. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool.

Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Cut into squares.