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. 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. You can cook Gooey Butter Cookies using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Gooey Butter Cookies

It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
Prepare 1 packages of yellow cake mix.
Prepare 1/4 cup of confectioners sugar.
Prepare 1 stick of butter(softened).
It's 1 of egg.
It's 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract.

Just waiting for the cream cheese and butter to come to room temp. Cream together cream cheese and butter. Add egg and vanilla, then cake mix. And the traditional Gooey Butter Cookie recipe calls for the use of cake mix.

Gooey Butter Cookies step by step

Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter..
Stir in the egg and vanilla extract..
Add cake mix, and stir until well blended..
Roll into 1inch balls and roll the balls in the confectioners' sugar..
Place 1 inch apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet..
Bake for 10 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven..
Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks..

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. Quick and easy gooey butter cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with yellow cake mix. Soft and chewy on the inside, crispy and crunchy on the outside with a rich butter flavor.