We especially loved the stories that our mom and dad told about how the world was when they were growing up.  Our Dad had some classic stories about the antics he and his buddies pulled to have some fun while living on a farm. But that is a story for another time.

Easy! 5 Steps In Preparing Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Today’s story is about butter.  I can never think of butter without remembering one of my mother’s experiences with butter. It was during World War II, and my mother lived in a project.

She remembers getting rations during the war, and one of the things that were in scarce supply was butter. She told us that it used to come as white butter with a little packet of yellow dye. To make your butter yellow, you took the packet and mixed it into the butter.

Well, one time her older brother decided to have some fun with their butter. Along with the yellow packet of coloring that came with the butter, he thought it would be funny to add a few drops of blue, thus making a lovely green butter.

Their mother (my grandmother) was furious because they wouldn’t be getting any more butter any time soon. They had to use what they had and so they had to spread green butter on everything.

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake Ingredients;

Cake

• One 18 1/4 – ounce package yellow cake mix
• One egg
• 16 tablespoons melted butter 
• One tablespoon vanilla

Filling

• One 8-ounce package of cream cheese softened
• Two eggs
• One 16-ounce box of powdered sugar
• One tablespoon vanilla
• 16 tablespoons melted butter

Step 1: Preheat Oven

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. The average time is just 15 minutes 

This ensures that the browning temperature is reached. It’s a clever way to make sure that all of those glorious flavors are formed.

Step 2: Combine The Butter Cake Mix

Combine the cake mix, egg, and eight tablespoons of butter and mix well with an electric mixer. You may also do so manually with a whisk, doing it continuously for at least 3 minutes until it becomes light and fluffy.

Press the mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 9×13 baking pan.

Step 3: Spray Pan 

Spray the pan with a baking spray. If not, you may grease it and line it with parchment paper.

It will help you achieve a nonstick pan. As a result, the pan releases the cake easily.

Step 4: Beat The Cream Cheese To Smoothness

In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs, eight tablespoons of butter, and vanilla, and beat them together.

You may do this for about 3-7 minutes depending on the amount of cream cheese. You may use a mixer or a whisk to achieve desired texture. Do this until it becomes light-colored and fluffy.

It helps you avoid clumps and bursts of sour flavors. It also makes it lighter and easier to spread on the batter.

Step 5: Add Sugar And Mix Well

Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well. Spread over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make sure not to overbake as the center should be a little gooey.

Tips To Making The Perfect Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

1. Get your pan ready

Prepare your pan by spraying or greasing it before use. You can use homemade baker’s spray. Here’s a simple instruction on how to make the perfect baker’s spray. 

If you do not wish to use baker’s spray, grease your pan and line with parchment paper. As you may already know, it is necessary to do this. 

It performs the same function as nonstick cooking spray–it prevents baked goods from sticking to the pans and lets you release them cleanly and easily from the container.

2. Mix all ingredients in a single bowl

It is the secret to achieving perfection. Mixing all the ingredients in a single bowl and then bake.

Doing this properly reduces the percentage of fat overall. It also facilitates the formation of gluten, which binds the batter together.

3. Whip Cream Cheese

Whip the cream cheese with a whisk or mixer until it is light and fluffy. Do this for at least 3 minutes to produce an even mixture.

It softens the texture of the cheese and adds some moisture.  

4. Use room temperature eggs, butter, and other dairy ingredients

Set your butter and cream cheese out a couple of hours before you plan on making the butter cake.

If your butter is too cold because there is not enough time to soften, the sugar crystals cannot mix well with the butter. It results in overall recipe failure.

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake Nutrition Facts

Nutrition  facts per serving

• Calories 334
• Protein 3.7g
• Carbohydrates 49.5g
• Fat 13.9g
• Cholesterol 69.2mg
• Sodium 277.7mg

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake With Condensed Milk

Condensed milk is simply cow’s milk in which water (approximately 60%) has been removed. It has sugar added. The advantage of condensed milk is that it can be stored for months without needing electricity.

You can use condensed milk in place of cream cheese. For people with protein allergy and lactose intolerance, this milk is unsuitable. 

As with the regular ooey gooey butter cake recipe, this requires the use of all ingredients except cream milk been replaced with condensed milk.

Step By Step Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F as usual. Spray pan with baking spray or grease with oil. 
• Using an electric mixer or whisk cream together the butter, sugar, vanilla, and almond extract. Beat for at least 3 minutes on medium-high speed stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl periodically.
• Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
• Lower the speed of the mixer and add sifted dry ingredients alternately with the sweetened condensed milk, beginning and ending with flour. After all, has been added beat for 30-45 seconds.
• Pour evenly into the prepared pan. Bounce to release the trapped air.
• Place into the oven and bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes back clean. Check at 40 minutes and lay a piece of aluminum foil on top to prevent over-browning, if needed.
• Cool in the pan for 10 minutes then remove the outer ring. Cool to room temperature on a cooling rack.
• Dust with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream and fresh berries, if desired.

What You Can Serve With Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

To enjoy your butter cake, even more, you can serve it with any of the following

• Wine
• Tea
• Coffee
• Cheese
• Vanilla Yoghurts
• Ice-cream
• Apple Sauce
• Fruit

Ooey Gooey Butter Cake Variations

As beautifully outlined here, there are several variations of the ooey gooey butter cake recipe. 

There’s surely one or two that will please your taste buds. You could even try out several variations from these for the sake of your grandkids.

• Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake: Add one can of pumpkin puree, eight tablespoons of melted butter, one teaspoon cinnamon, and ½ teaspoon nutmeg to the filling.
• Lemon Gooey Butter Cake: Use a lemon cake mix, and add ¼ cup lemon juice and one teaspoon lemon zest to the filling.
• Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake: Use a chocolate cake mix. Add ¼ cup of cocoa to the filling.
• Cinnamon Gooey Butter Cake: Mix 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 1 ½ teaspoon of cinnamon together, and sprinkle over the topping before baking.
• Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cake: Use a red velvet cake mix.
• Strawberry Gooey Butter Cake: Use a strawberry cake mix. Top with sliced fresh strawberries.

Best Butter For Making Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Ooey gooey butter cake requires butter at room temperature. This means butter that is naturally soft and thus spreads easily. If it has been hardened from being in the refrigerator it will not cream well with the sugar and other ingredients. This would result in overall recipe failure.

To prevent this, the recommended butter should be:

 – Unsalted

Using this type of butter allows you to better control the amount of salt that goes into your recipe (if you are adding salt). 

 – Low in fat 

Lower fat content means the butter contains more water and is therefore softened. Soft buttercreams well with sugar and other ingredients. 

This avoids clumpiness. High-fat butter, on the other hand, is less moist but softens and melts faster. This means that when used, it can lead to flat, dense baked goods. In other words, this isn’t good for you.

Luckily butter now comes in a soft, creamy yellow and we can make this cake so it will look like this:

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Paula Deen's Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Course Dessert

Author Paula Deen

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1 18 1/4- ounce package yellow cake mix
• 1 egg
• 16 tablespoons melted butter divided
• Filling:
• 1 8- ounce package cream cheese softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 16- ounce box powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the cake mix, egg, and 8 tablespoons butter and mix well with an electric mixer. Press the mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 9x13 baking pan.
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs, 8 tablespoons butter, and vanilla and beat together.
• Next, add the powdered sugar, and mix well. Spread over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make sure not to over bake as the center should be a little gooey.

I must issue a warning here if you haven’t already figured it out on your own. This cake is super rich and a little goes a long way. When I made this for my family, I cut the pieces as big as a regular piece of cake and no one was able to finish it. However, every one of them LOVED the cake.

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There just had to be a reason this particular butter cake recipe to be such a success. And there was. It’s super simple to make and it tastes SO good! The grandkids loved it, too!

I have also seen this pinned as “The Original Neiman Marcus Bars” and “Texas Gold Bars”. But the name doesn’t really matter. Because whatever you call them, they ARE ooey, they ARE gooey and they definitely have a rich, buttery flavor. They’re also about to become one of your family’s favorite treats of all time.

Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake – The Best Dessert For Your Favorite Grandkids

The verdict from my family?  Paula Deen’s Gooey Butter Cake recipe ROCKS!  

Who is Paula Deen?

Paula Ann Hiers Deen (born January 19, 1947) is an American TV personality and cooking show host. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant and Paula Deen’s Creek House with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has published fifteen cookbooks. Though married since 2004 to Michael Groover, she uses the last name – Deen, from her first marriage.

via Wikipedia

Paula Deen is well-known for her traditional Southern cooking. Her books are best-sellers, her restaurant businesses are a hit, too. I’ve heard so many good things about her recipes that I just had to cook something of hers. I had to check for myself why her cooking is so appreciated. 

And boy, Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake was definitely the right recipe choice to make. 

Wanna know more about butter?

I can never think of butter without remembering one of my mother’s memories about butter. It was a story we heard multiple times and yet, we enjoyed every single one of them. It was during World War II and my mother lived in a project. She remembers getting rations during the war and one of the things that were in scarce supply was butter.

She told us that it used to come as white butter with a little packet of yellow dye. To make your butter yellow, you took the packet and mixed it into the butter.

Well, one time her older brother decided to have some fun with their butter.

Along with the yellow packet of coloring that came with the butter, he had an idea. He decided it would be funny to add a few drops of blue coloring to the butter.

And you know what happens when you mix yellow and blue – you get green. All of their butter supply had a lovely green color.

Their mother (my grandmother) was furious because they wouldn’t be getting any more butter any time soon. They had to use what they had and so they had to spread green butter on everything. And cook with green butter.

Funny story, ha? Well, my grandma didn’t think so… But you know how young boys are.

Back to the point. Butter, as a cooking condiment, has been appreciated by humans for a long time and there are multiple reasons why.

Benefits of Including Butter In Your Menu

• adds a rich flavor to sautéed and pan-fried foods
• improves texture and adds volume to baked dishes
• Butter contains Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K2, Calcium

As with everything else, butter is to be consumed in moderation. It is a wonderful product. But it also contains a significant percentage of fat. Consuming too many rich-in-fat foods can lead to weight gain and serious health troubles.

How is Butter Made?

The dairy product produced from churning milk or cream is called butter. The process of churning separates the solids (the butterfat) from the liquids (the buttermilk).

Butter is the product you get when you’ve achieved approximately 80% of butterfat. At room temperature, it is semi-liquid and easy to spread. It is also great to use in cooking for frying, sauces, baking, etc.

It’s usually pale yellow in color. However, it can range to deep yellow, depending on what the animal’s been eating, before giving milk. Most often, we buy butter made from cow’s milk from the store.

But butter could be made from the milk of:

• Sheep
• Goat
• Yak
• Buffalo
• even Camel
• Donkey
• or Moose (commercially available in stores in Russia and Sweden!!)

Historical evidence point butter’s been around since at least 2000 BC, and we know there’s a good reason why. (It’s SO good!)

DIY Homemade Butter for your Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Yes, you actually can make your own butter at home! However, I am not a huge fan of the process. But you can try it and decide for yourself – is it worth the effort to make your own butter.

Here’s a video you can check out about how to make your own butter at home:

What’s a Butter Cake?

Butter cakes are my favorite type of cake. Wanna know why? Because they’re usually hard to mess up!

Another name in the US you can find butter cakes under is pound cakes. They are full of flavor and light in texture.

Butter cakes are a part of American cuisine. Their original pound cake is believed to have been baked in England. The American version of this cake is said to be a variation of its main formula.

Butter cakes make a big part of our favorite birthday and wedding cakes. They are moist and yet hard enough to be covered in a variety of frostings and toppings. 

Tell me you’re not drooling already…

Luckily, nowadays butter now comes in a soft, creamy yellow, and we can make Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake so it will look like this:

How To Make Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake?

The base recipe for all butter cakes is pretty much the same. It includes flour, eggs, butter, sugar, sometimes salt, and a chemical leavening pair.

Paula’s recipe is even simpler – she uses a store-bought cake mix. So this is a great way to simplify your cake baking process, too.

Trying different kinds of cake mixes allows you to experiment with the taste. You can effortlessly come up with your own version of an ooey gooey butter cake!

What Ingredients Do You Need?

For the Cake:

• 1 18 1/4-ounce package of yellow cake mix
• 1 egg
• 16 tablespoons melted butter (divided)

For the Filling:

• 8-ounce package of cream cheese (softened)
• 2 eggs
• 1 16-ounce box powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

How to prepare Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake?

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees Celsius).
• Combine the cake mix with the egg and 8 tablespoons of butter (about half a stick). Mix well with an electric mixer until all ingredients are well combined. The mixture needs to be completely homogenous.
• Grease a 9×13 baking pan. Press the mixture into the bottom of the pan.
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until it’s smooth.
• Add the eggs, 8 tablespoons of butter (about half a stick), and vanilla. Beat them together until they’re fully incorporated.
• When the mixture is ready, add the powdered sugar and mix well.
• Spread over cake batter.
• Bake for 40 to 50 minutes.
  Important notice: Make sure not to overbake your cake. The center should be a little gooey.

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Paula Deen's Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

Course Dessert

Author Paula Deen

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1 18 1/4- ounce package yellow cake mix
• 1 egg
• 16 tablespoons melted butter divided
• Filling:
• 1 8- ounce package cream cheese softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 16- ounce box powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the cake mix, egg, and 8 TBL butter and mix well with an electric mixer. Press the mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 9x13 baking pan.
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs, 8 TBL butter and vanilla and beat together.
• Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well. Spread over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make sure not to over bake as the center should be a little gooey.

I must issue a warning here if you haven’t already figured it out on your own. This cake is super rich, and a little goes a long way.

When I made this for my family, I cut the pieces as big as a regular piece of cake and no one was able to finish it. However, every one of them LOVED the cake.

So Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake is not only one of the most delicious butter cakes you’ll ever try. It also makes a dessert that the grandkids enjoy for more than one day! If this didn’t convince you to try this recipe, I don’t know what will. 

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