Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake

Ingredients:

1. 32 Oreo cookies, divided
2. 32 ounces cream cheese, softened
3. 1 cup sugar
4. 1 tsp vanilla
5. 8 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted and slightly cooled
6. 4 eggs

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees ifusing a silver 9" springform pan (or 300 degrees if using a dark nonstick 9" springform pan).
2. Quarter 20 of the cookies and set aside. Finely crush the remaining 12 cookies; press firmly onto the bottom of the greased springform pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
3. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla with electric mixer on medium spped until well blended. Add chocolate, mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition until just blended. Gently stir in 1 1/2 cups of the quartered cookies. Pour over the crust. Sprinkle with the remaining quartered cookies.
4. Bake 50 - 60 minutes or until the center is almost set. Run a knife around the rim of the pan to loosen the cake. Cool before removing the rim of pan.
5. Refrigerate at least four hours.

Taken from BAKER'S chocolate at www.allrecipes.com.