On 27 Nov 2010 16:49:54 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
>On Sat 27 Nov 2010 09:14:52a, sf told us...
>
>> 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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>Yes, I have made the chocolate wafer and whipped cream roll, but not
>for a long time. My mother used to make it, too.
I remember making it one time for my mother's bridge group. I was in
my teens. They praised me so much you would have thought I had made
something really complicated.
Maybe I will look for the cookies again. Maybe if I am having company
to eat it so I won't pig out.
--
Susan N.
"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)