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Ooey Gooey Cake Recipe
This Gooey Cake recipe is one of those tried-and-true treats that everyone should enjoy at least once (maybe twice?) each year. My wonderful step-mom (who’s the best cook and one of the sweetest people I know!) shared the recipe with me forever ago, and every time I make it my hubby reminds me I need to bake it more often.
Ready to indulge in pure dessert bliss? This cake features a super moist cake, creating a heavenly texture that melts in your mouth with every bite. Treat yourself to a slice of sweet perfection!
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Ingredients for Gooey Cake:
- yellow cake mix
- egg
- butter
- cream cheese
- vanilla extract
- powdered sugar
Here’s how to make Ooey Gooey Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, combine cake mix, egg, and butter; mix well.
- Pat mixture into lightly greased 13×9-inch baking dish.
- Wipe out bowl, add cream cheese, and beat until smooth. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
- Add butter and beat until incorporated. Slowly add powdered sugar and mix well.
- Spread over cake mixture.
- Bake 40-50 minutes or until center is still a little gooey. Don’t overbake.
Ooey Gooey Cake
Ingredients
cake
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup butter melted
filling
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 16 oz powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, combine cake mix, egg, and butter; mix well.
- Pat mixture into lightly greased 13x9-inch baking dish.
- Wipe out bowl, add cream cheese, and beat until smooth. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
- Add butter and beat until incorporated. Slowly add powdered sugar and mix well.
- Spread over cake mixture.
- Bake 40-50 minutes or until center is still a little gooey. Don't overbake.
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Here’s what Grocery by PPP members are saying about this recipe:
Absolutely delicious. Reduced the amount of powdered sugar and served with strawberries. – Alania C.
This with ice cream was a decadent treat – Simone L.
So easy and delicious! – Bryn L.
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It seems delicious!!!
Gooey butter cake was something that my Grandmother used to buy every summer at a specific bakery on our way from St. Louis to IL to visit my cousins. It took every bit of my weak little self to not eat the entire thing the first morning for breakfast!!
For years people would look at me crazy when I’d ask if they had gooey butter cake. When I finally found a recipe I feared making it cause I may not have the self restraint now that there’s no one to scold me if I DID eat the entire thing (except maybe my husband when he didn’t get a piece or was having to nurse me back to health from the sugar coma! LMAO)
Anyway I broke down and made this to take to my mom’s for Christmas and it was a huge hit. I got the stuff to make a chocolate one too and have that one in the oven tonight, can’t wait to give it a try. Hopefully I can pace myself! LOL 😀
So glad you enjoyed it Theresa! I love that stuff…. good luck limiting yourself (yikes)! 🙂
I grew up in St. Louis and Mom got Gooey Butter Cake from Krogers. Its a wonderful memory! So glad I found this recipe – I’m making it for my Dad’s memorial dinner!
P.S. I always thought the name was something my family made up!
So glad you found it Wendy!
LOVE this recipe! It’s a treasured one I got from my grandmother and this simple bar cake is always a huge hit at office potlucks or I need to take a dessert to a function. It’s so easy but so rich and gooey.
My grandmother did have one little tweak to the recipe; she added 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to the cream cheese mixture to give a little contrast to the sweet.
Also, this recipe works great with a chocolate cake mix as the crust.