Gooey Butter Cake

Name: Gooey Butter Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pack yellow cake mix; 3 eggs, divided; ½ cup butter, melted; 8 oz cream cheese, softened; 2 cups powdered sugar plus more to dust; 1 tsp vanilla

A St. Louis-style gooey butter cake, baked rich and dense, impossibly soft and gooey right through the centre.

Total time

45 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

35 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

American

comfortbakingsweet

Ingredients

1 packyellow cake mix

3eggs, divided

½ cupbutter, melted

8 ozcream cheese, softened

2 cupspowdered sugar plus more to dust

1 tspvanilla

Instructions

Mix cake mix, 1 egg, and butter into dough; press into greased 9×13 pan.

Beat cream cheese, 2 eggs, powdered sugar, and vanilla until smooth.

Pour cream cheese mixture over cake layer.

Bake at 350°F for 30-35 min until just set in centre.

Dust with powdered sugar when cool.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

658

Protein

8.6g

Fat

68.8g

Carbs

2.7g

Fiber

Sodium

242mg

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