I’m taking it there today. Down and dirty…your teeth will hurt later…you only need a few bites…kinda THERE. I don’t know who invented Gooey Butter Cake, I know I certainly didn’t, but it’s been around for ages. I also know there are different variations on it depending on where in the country you are… I was in Philadelphia this past summer and I visited The Flying Monkey Bakery in Reading Terminal, and I will tell you the ButterCake there can NOT be beat. Seriously, it’s worth a whole trip Philly. I mean, that and the Liberty Bell…history people. Anyhow, my brain problem with Gooey Butter Cake is that it ain’t cake, at least in my book. It’s TOTALLY a bar dessert. If you can eat it with your hands it’s not cake. Well, except cupcakes? Anyway, you know what I mean. So anyway, I decided to go ahead and make an already outrageously sweet dessert MORE sweet. Because cookie dough… So let’s talk a quick minute about Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Gooey Butter Bars before you make them. And make them you will. It all starts with a cake mix. Yep. The 80’s version of Gooey Butter Cake lives loud and proud in these bars… Make your simple cake mix base…1 egg + 1/2 cup of melted butter + yellow cake mix. The mix up a quick cookie dough. Don’t even bother washing your mixer in between layers. Then spread that dough all up on the base… To about 1/2 inch from the edge… Then mix your topping up.. it’s cream cheese, a few eggs, some brown sugar, powdered sugar and vanilla. Simple dimple. Spread it all over… And then bake it. When I baked it I placed my 9×13 on a cookie sheet. Also, note that when I make these I normally line my 9×13 with foil and spray that… I forgot to do it when I was baking the batch I took process shots of. When it’s baked and cooled and chilled dust it with powdered sugar to make it purty… And then OMGeat. You guys are gonna love me for this one.
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