Editors' Pick
Mrs. Knobbes Gooey Butter Cake
photo by anniesnomsblog
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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1 nine x thirteen cake
- Serves:
- 15
ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Mix the cake mix with 1 egg and the butter and pat into a greased cake pan.
- Mix and pour the remaining ingredients over the cake.
- Bake at 350F for 35 minutes.
- Dust the top with powdered sugar.
Reviews
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This cake is fantastic. I made it for my boyfriend since he likes the butter cake Super Walmart sells (formally Paula Dean cake.) He loves it! I made it in a 13 x 9 pan and like other users, I used 2 cups of powdered sugar in the second layer, and not the whole 16 oz box. It is plenty sweet. I didn't try it warm, but tried it the next day (and the next and the next...). There were two pretty layers in this bar-like cake.
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Tweaks
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I've now made this recipe four times... twice it came out perfect! Delicioussss.. the other two times - once, I undercooked it. The top was just barely brown and the middle was still liquidy-jiggly. Result - the gooey cake part never quite set up right, having more of a 'vanilla pudding' consistency and oozing out of the crust every time I cut the cake. Whoops. Second time, cooked a bit too long - I went by color instead of consistency, and while the cake didn't quite burn, it did form a strange and unpleasantly hard sugary 'crust' all over the cake. Still soft/moist in the center, but not quite perfect. So, the tip here is to go by the cake's consistency and not the color - when it is just barely set, still a tiny big jiggly all over, not really loose and liquidy in the center. Shake the pan just a bit and if the center is no longer jiggling on its own... take it out and let it sit, the heat of the cake should finish it up. Yummmmm. In the third cake I substituted margarine for butter (desperate and too late to run to the store) making the crust dough more wet than with regular butter, *and* forgot to add vanilla to the batter. D'oh. Still tasted fine though, and the crust baked up all right. Overall a fabulous recipe. :)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Miss Erin C.
Minneapolis, Missouri
Mom to 4 boys, city dweller, eater, craft beer enthusiast, original Recipezaar member.