How to Make Delicious Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. This original gooey butter cake recipe from Paula Deen is an easy to make dessert. Ingredients include yellow cake mix , softened cream cheese and powdered sugar. Add butter and vanilla extract; mix until batter is smooth and thick.

You may be surprised by the ingredients! Make sure to try Chocolate Ooey Gooey Cake too! Before making this I studied a lot of Ooey-Gooey Cake recipes. You can cook Ooey Gooey Butter Cake using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

1. Prepare 1 box of yellow cake mix.
2. Prepare 3 of eggs.
3. You need 16 oz of powdered sugar.
4. Prepare 1 stick of butter (melted).
5. It's 8 oz of cream cheese (softened).

Combine the cake mix, nutmeg, vanilla and eggs in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the melted butter and mix. Mix cake mix, melted butter and one egg. In a separate bowl beat cheese until fluffy.

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake step by step

1. preheat oven to 350°F.
2. grease 13 x 9 in pan.
3. add melted stick & 1 egg of butter to yellow cake mix;stir.
4. spread this doughy mixture in bottom of pan ; pat down.
5. mix 2 eggs, powdered sugar & cream cheese until creamy (some lumps are OK).
6. spread this creamy mix over cake mix evenly.
7. cook 35-40 minutes until golden brown on top.

Add powdered sugar and beat until lumps are gone. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. We call it ooey gooey butter cake and we love it. I have found that the cake bottom can be too dry. What I do is after the cream cheese mixture is poured into the pan I take my butter knife and make small holes in the crust so that the topping can sink into it.