Gooey Butter Cake
Traditional dish with of yellow cake mix, eggs, cream cheese.

- prep 18 min
- cook 42 min
- total 60 min
- serves 12
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 box of yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 8 oz butter
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 lb confectioners sugar
Steps
- Combine the cake mix, one egg, and 4 oz butter to create a stiff dough.
- Spray a 9 × 13-inch pan with oil.
- Spread the dough evenly in the pan and up the sides.
- Melt the remaining butter.
- Mix the remaining ingredients to create the filling, adding the cream cheese and then the confectioner’s sugar last.
- Gently warming the cream cheese aids mixing.
- Pour the filling into the crust.
- Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.
- Allow to cool and firm up.
Adapted from “Gooey Butter Cake”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.