OREO® Chocolate Cheese Cake

I wanted to bake the all-time favourite OREO® Cheese Cake, since I have my last box of OREOs at home which I have actually kept for another occasion.

I found some pics of the OREO Cheese Cake I made some time ago, but the pics were not nice, so I made this weird montage out of them:

Anyway, I decided to improve on my recipe. "How," you ask, "on earth could anyone improve on OREO Cheese Cake?"

Well, here I introduce, OREO CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE!

I added cocoa to the cheese batter and baked as usual. I even have crushed oreos as topping for the cake, as well as caramel hearts as garnish. One response I got was that the cake wasn't as chocolatey as it looks and that it still tastes like cheese cake (that came from Zool, who would rather have an oreo cheese cake without the cheese cake). Other more positive reactions include words like "special", "interesting" or from Domi "soooo lecker!"

Personally, I found the cake a tad too sweet with both the oreo crust and oreo topping, but then again, who can have too much of oreos?

Note that the hearts are all different and kind of uneven... a definite sign that they were homemade!