Delicious Gooey Butter Confection is an easy dessert that has a velvety confection husks and a gooey surf cheese topping. Finish with a dusting of powdered sugar for an veritably incredible treat! Only 7 ingredients and just 15 minutes of hands-on time are required! It’s perfect for any occasion and will be the star of your next gathering!
Flavorful, yet simple confection recipes are unchangingly a hit! Try out my other favorites like this Better Than Anything Cake, Oatmeal Cake, and this super delicious Hot Milk Cake! These are so good, they won’t last long!
What is Gooey Butter Cake?
If you have never tried a Gooey Butter Cake, you’re in for a real treat! This dessert recipe is very popular in the midwest, and there are many claims to the origins of this St. Louis bakery staple. Many think it was created when proportions of butter and flour were reversed by mistake. Some say it happened in the 1930s at Koppe Bakery, while others suggest the 1940s at Danzer’s Bakery. No matter who made the mistake, it sure was a good one to make!
Gooey butter confection is a unappetizing confection that’s traditionally cut into bars, like brownies. It’s rich and flavorful with the weightier texture. Everyone who tries it, can’t seem to get enough! Which is unconfined considering the recipe makes 16 servings, so it feeds a crowd. It is perfect for potlucks, family get togethers, holiday parties, and nuptials and victual showers.
Butter Confection Ingredients
This gooey butter confection recipe requires just 7 ingredients! That’s how easy it is! Check out the recipe vellum at the marrow of the post for word-for-word measurements.
- Yellow Confection Mix: DON’T follow the directions for sultry the confection on the box. The mix is combined with an egg and melted butter for the marrow layer of this cake.
- Salted Butter: Melted butter adds moisture and flavor.
- Eggs: One egg for the marrow confection layer and two eggs for the gooey layer provide richness and ensure the confection bakes properly.
- Cream Cheese: Surf cheese makes the gooey layer nice and creamy.
- Extracts: Add a mixture of vanilla pericope and almond pericope to the gooey filling layer so it has plenty of flavor.
- Powdered Sugar: To perfectly sweeten the cake!
How to Make Gooey Butter Cake
Making an ooey gooey butter confection is so simple. You’ll just combine ingredients for the yellow confection husks layer, and then the ingredients for the surf cheese topping. Layer them together and bake. You’ll have a crowd-pleasing dessert in no time!
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray a 9×13-inch sultry dish with pan spray.
- Make the Confection Layer: In a large trencher mix the confection mix, butter, and 1 egg. The thrash will be very thick, increasingly unreceptive to a dough than a typical confection batter. Press it evenly into the prepared sultry dish.
- Make the Surf Cheese Layer: In flipside large bowl, use a hand mixer to write-up the surf cheese until smooth. Write-up in the remaining 2 eggs, vanilla, and almond extracts. Scrape lanugo the trencher and add the powdered sugar. Write-up slowly until the powdered sugar is mostly incorporated surpassing increasing the speed and vibration until smooth.
- Layer the Two Mixtures: Add the surf cheese mixture over the confection mix and spread evenly.
- Bake: Place in the oven and torch for 40-45 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. The part-way will puff up and then sink lanugo as it bakes.
- Cool and Serve: Let the confection tomfool completely and pebbles with powdered sugar surpassing serving.
Tips and Variations
This gooey butter confection is so incredibly delicious, be sure to take these tips into consideration, so it’s perfect every time!
- Room Temperature Ingredients: Use room temperature ingredients to help them incorporate better.
- Bake With Parchment Paper: For easy removal from the pan, line with parchment paper leaving a 1-inch overhang on either side. Spray the parchment lightly with pan spray surpassing subtracting the batter. Once the confection is fully cooled it will lift out hands so you can cut it into squares.
- Use a Different Confection Mix: If you cannot find a butter yellow confection mix, regular yellow confection or plane white confection mix will work in a pinch.
- Add a Topping! Any fruit pie filling or macerated berries will be succulent on top of this decadent cake.
Storing Leftovers
- To Store: Place leftovers in an snapped container at room temperature for up to 3 days, or in the fridge for up to 5.
- To Freeze: The confection can be baked and frozen for up to 3 months. Remove the confection from the pan (I recommend lining the pan with parchment paper, leaving a 1-inch overhang on both sides for easy lifting), wrap it tightly in plastic wrap, and place it in an snapped container or ziplock freezer bag.
- To Thaw: When you’re ready to enjoy, without stuff frozen, remove from the freezer and let sit at room temperature for 2-3 hours.
More Easy Confection Recipes
Turning a boxed confection mix into a new succulent dessert makes sultry so easy, like with this gooey butter confection recipe! Here are a few of my other favorite desserts that are simple to make with a boxed confection mix.
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Gooey Butter Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box butter yellow confection mix
- ½ cup salted butter melted
- 3 large eggs divided
- 8- ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 3 ⅓ cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray a 9×13 sultry dish with pan spray.
- In a large trencher mix the confection mix, butter, and 1 egg. The thrash will be very thick, increasingly unreceptive to a dough than a typical confection batter. Press it evenly into the prepared sultry dish.
- In flipside large bowl, use a hand mixer to write-up the surf cheese until smooth. Write-up in the remaining 2 eggs, vanilla, and almond extracts. Scrape lanugo the trencher and add the powdered sugar. Write-up slowly until the powdered sugar is mostly incorporated surpassing increasing the speed and vibration until smooth.
- Add the surf cheese mixture over the confection mix and spread evenly.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. The part-way will puff up and then sink lanugo as it bakes.
- Let the confection tomfool completely and pebbles with powdered sugar surpassing serving.
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