On 27 Nov 2010 06:33:42 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

> On Fri 26 Nov 2010 01:40:32p, Goomba told us...
>
> > Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> >
> >> Flavor or texture? I remember a cheesecake that took crushed
> >> Oreo cookies & butter for a crust.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >
> > Sweetness actually. Sometimes people make things so unnecessarily
> > sweet that you lose the other flavor components (dairy; lemon or
> > vanilla; fruit, etc).
> > Oreos would pretty much ruin it for me, I imagine? It would
> > overtake any subtle flavors.
> >
>
> When I want a chocolate crumb crust for a cheesecake or some type of
> pie, I use Famous Chocolate Wafers. They are not particularly sweet,
> if fact the crust recipe on the box has additional sugar in it, but I
> either use none or just a bit. The wafers are harder to find these
> days, but I can still get them in one of our suparmarkets. They are
> intensely chocolatey.
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/Famous-Chocolate-Wafers-9-Ounce-
> Boxes/dp/B000FA38ZE>

I like those too! I'll never understand the reasoning behind Oreo
cookie crusts. I don't want the filling in my chocolate crumb crust
and I'm not going to stand there and scrape it off every cookie - one
by one. Have you ever made the dessert pictured on the box. It was a
teenaged favorite of mine... I ate it, I didn't make it. I always
think about making one, but end up using the cookies for something
else.

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