Gooey Butter Cookies. In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, and stir until well blended. Beat butter, cream cheese and granulated sugar until blended. In another bowl, whisk flour, milk powder and baking powder; gradually beat into creamed mixture.

Using Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix, these gooey butter cookies can be melting in your mouth in under an hour. Cream together cream cheese and butter. Add egg and vanilla, then cake mix. You can have Gooey Butter Cookies using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Gooey Butter Cookies

It's 1 box of Yellow Butter Cake Mix.
Prepare 1 large of Egg.
It's 8 oz of Cream Cheese, softened.
Prepare 1 stick of Butter, softened.
You need 1/2 tsp of Vanilla.
Prepare 1 cup of Powdered Sugar, approximately.

Doing cookie trials for upcoming holiday cookie exchange party next weekend! My son and I are getting ready to make the Gooey Butter Cookies and the Chocolate Gooey Cookies, except we are going to put little mini Reese Cups in them. Just waiting for the cream cheese and butter to come to room temp. And the traditional Gooey Butter Cookie recipe calls for the use of cake mix.

Gooey Butter Cookies instructions

Combine all ingredients except the powdered sugar with a mixer until well combined..
Chill dough at least two hours or overnight..
Preheat oven to 350°F..
Roll dough into small balls, approximately two teaspoons in size..
Roll dough balls in powder sugar and place on cookie sheet two inches apart..
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges start to lightly brown..
Remove cookies to cool and enjoy!.
Makes approximately four dozen cookies..

However, I decided that they needed to be made from scratch. Because I don't always have cake mix in my pantry…but the basic staples of butter, sugar, flour, cream cheese are always in my kitchen. Although my Ooey Gooey Butter Cake recipe is made with cake mix, I wanted to try a from-scratch version for the cookies. I tested quite a few recipes and was troubled by the flavor and consistency that they produced. Gooey Butter Cookies made easy by using Betty Crocker® Super Moist™ cake mix.