Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Squares

Source: Jan Taylor

30 chocolate sandwich cookies
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
20 chocolate sandwich cookies, chopped, divided

Place 30 cookies in food processor container; cover. Process 30 to 45 seconds or until finely ground. Add butter; mix well. Press onto bottom of 13 x 9-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 chopped cookies. Pour into crust. Sprinkle with remaining chopped cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.

Cut into squares. Makes 18.

ENJOY!