Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

This is Ooey Gooey Butter Cake is one of the most delicious Cake Mix Recipes I’ve ever seen! Yellow Cake mix is topped with a combination of Cream Cheese, Egg, Vanilla and Sugar. It’s Ooey, Gooey Rich and Buttery in the most yummy way!

Cake Mix Recipes

Here at Bubba Pie, we are all about Real Simple Food. This means that it is easy to make and tastes delicious! If there are any shortcuts, we take them and have no apologies. Some of the tastiest things are super simple (peanut butter and chocolate…. these two ingredients cannot be improved upon). One shortcut that we LOVE is to make recipes with Cake Mix. Just buy a box of your favorite Cake Mix at the store and you’ve got a foundation for some seriously delicious desserts that are totally stress free to make.

Some of our favorites have been these Rich and Decadent Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies or this light and creamy Banana Pudding Poke Cake. We’ve even got some Strawberry Desserts that feature Cake Mixes, like these Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies or this Strawberry Poke Cake Recipe.

Today, we’d love to share another Cake Mix Recipe with you, and this one might be our favorite: Ooey Gooey Butter Cake!

What Is Ooey Gooey Butter Cake?

These have been called so many things, including Texas Gold Bars, Neiman Marcus Bars and Gooey Butter Bars. I’ve done some research, and all of these recipes basically revolved around a Yellow or Vanilla Cake mix that is topped with a Cream Cheese/Sugar/Vanilla Mixture. And it seems to have originated in some way in St. Louis by a baker who may have been drinking too much Anheuser-Busch and messed up by adding too much sugar and not enough flour to his cake.

So, are they cake, brownies, blondies? Are they a type of cheesecake? The answer is: yes to all of the above. This dessert defies categorization. Which is why it’s best to just call it Ooey, Gooey and Delicious!

How To Make Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Like just about all Cake Mix Recipes, this is so simple and easy! Here is what you will need:

For the cake:

• Cooking spray + parchment paper
• Yellow cake mix
• Large eggs
• Vanilla
• Butter, melted

For the filling:

• Cream cheese, softened
• Large eggs
• Vanilla
• Butter, melted
• Confectioners’ sugar, sifted

Notes, Tips and Variations

Like I mentioned above, there are different names and different versions of this treat. But this recipe looks good to us! That being said, we are always fans of improvising and mixing things up. Here are a couple ideas and a couple things to consider:

• BUTTER- Use REAL, high quality butter in this recipe. We’ll tell when “it doesn’t really matter” if you use the cheap stuff. With this Butter Cake, the butter matters.
• COOL COMPLETELY- I’m not gonna lie, it’s gonna be tough, but you’ll need to let the Ooey Gooey Butter Cake cool completely before cutting into it. Some cakes are great to serve right out of the oven. Sorry, won’t work for this one.
• IMPROVISE CAKE MIX- I’ve seen some recipes that use French Vanilla Cake Mix. Lemon Cake Mix sounds really delicious as well. Heck, try a Red Velvet Cake Mix and see how that turns out!
• TOP WITH MORE CONFECTIONER’S SUGAR- After the cake has cooled, dust it with a nice coating of powdered sugar to add a little more flavor and presentation. Honestly, this recipe looks pretty unassuming, but it sure doesn’t taste that way!

I hope you enjoy this easy version of Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. We’d love to hear how it turned out in the comments section. Stay in touch and thanks for reading!