I Tried the Viral Cheesecake Trend

Recently there was a viral video going around of people taking cheesecake filling and adding cookies to it and letting it sit overnight. Some people added Biscoff cookies, others, Oreos. I saw some people putting graham crackers in there and I'm sure many others tried out various other cookies.

I kind of pushed this aside and moved on to the next video. But my son was adamant about these videos. He brought it up to me many, many times. I would tell him that we would try it later, but I never committed to it one way or another. I also thought of how caloric and gross it would be to have a tub of cheesecake filling sitting in our fridge that we stuffed cookies into. But then I remembered that some other people on the internet were using full fat greek yogurt to mimic the same thing. Now, this isn't all that much healthier, but it is better than cheesecake filling stuffed with cookies. So I eventually relented and let my son buy the necessary ingredients to make it at home. He was persistent and I was sick and tired of saying no.

So we got a big tub of Greek yogurt and my son opted for Oreos, which was a good choice I thought. And we went about doing it the same way we saw on the videos. My son shoved the cookies in the tub of yogurt and we let it sit. It was easy for him to wait because he had school the next day and he had decided that he was going to try it out as his snack. Well, when he got home he had to wait a little longer, I wanted his sister to try it with him. And he decided that he wanted us all to try it. So after I picked her up from school we all got our spoons and tried this.

The anticipation had gotten to all of us. And it was kind of a letdown for me. It is simply just yogurt with softened Oreos. I'm sure it is the same thing with Biscoff cookies. The wait softens the cookies up and then it is similar to eating yogurt with granola, or milk and cereal. It is tasty. I mean, how could it not be? The sweetness the Oreos brought was a nice counterbalance to the tangy and tart yogurt. But that was expected. I figured this would blow my socks off.

Maybe it would have been different if we did it with cheesecake filling, but why even bother at this point. I would rather just make a cheesecake and eat that, which my wife recently did and it was awesome. She made a salted caramel cheesecake for the family and it was ten times better than the Oreos mixed with the Greek yogurt. I think I prefer the cheesecake because of the graham cracker crust. That is the biggest selling point for me of cheesecake. I adore the crust. That is totally gone in this context. It is literally just the filling, which can be fine, but on its own it is lacking. When you have this viral dessert all you are getting is the filling, and to me that would be like only eating the icing off of a cake. The cake is the best part of a cake. The icing can be overly sweet and way too filling. The cake adds a nice textual difference that is needed in sweet dessert. When a dessert gets overly sweet it is tough to eat as much as you may want. That's the main issue I have with this viral dessert. It's just too filling and too sweet.

I also don't like how soft the cookies get in the viral dessert. You need a texture difference. You need something crunchy or thick to balance out all the softness. And a graham cracker crust also adds a mild saltiness that is needed. That tiny bit of salt can make a world of difference. It mildly cuts out the sweetness.

I am not as big a fan as I thought I was going to be of this viral cheesecake filling dessert. It's too much of a good thing. It's way too American to make something like this as well. We are so greedy and selfish as Americans that we think a cheesecake only filling dessert is something we need. I'm here to say we don't need this. It is too sweet and too filling. I'd say if you are on the fence about trying this viral dessert, I'd say skip it and have a slice of real cheesecake instead. That is much better. 

Ty

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