Repeat Prototype 1, but boost the batter's sandwich cookies by 4, to 16.
Also, cut the baking time to only about 90 minutes.
Again, I used Joe-Joe's from TJ's for this
one. I would have to admit, however, that their taste differed
from that of the Oreo cookies. I performed a cookie taste test
and felt that the Oreos tasted noticeably sweeter, this
difference likely being linked to the creme filling in the
middle—hardly because of the chocolate cookie
"outsides".
For this prototype, I crushed the Joe-Joe's much less. Instead
of putting these into a bag and extensively mashing them (and
afterward blending them into the batter by machine for a fairly
long time), I broke—by hand—each cookie into a few chunks and
dropped them directly onto a still batter in a blender (after
having combined all the other ingredients, including the eggs).
I then ran the blender, likely with the intent of doing so for
only about 10 seconds (at the slowest speed), in order to get
the cookie pieces reasonably distributed. To my surprise, the
broken cookies quickly got blended into the batter, giving it
nearly as much of a brown appearance as my previous prototype—a
coloring effect that I had hoped to avoid—all within a few
seconds, after which I immediately shut the blender off. I made
a mental note to fold in the cookies strictly by hand (with a
utensil such as a scraper or spatula) for future prototypes.
However, the cookies still turned out chunkier than last time.
The batter still ended up with some cracks, in light of the
reduced baking time. Yet this tasty cheesecake ended up being a
much bigger success (gone in a surprisingly short time) at
Living Hope than the first prototype.