Gooey Butter Recipes from the Simple to the Sublime

Please share any of your own recipes you may have for gooey butter goodness.

Old Fashioned Gooey Butter Cake Cake: Topping: Heat over to 3350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan For the cake, combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. In another mixing bowl whisk together the sugar, melted butter and egg. Add in flour mixture then spread on bottom of the baking dish. For the topping, beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Reserve two tablespoons of confectioners sugar for finishing. Add remaining confectioners sugar to cream cheese mixture along with melted butter. Pour over top of cake dough, spreading evenly over the entire surface of cake. Bake for 40 – 45 minutes or until top is set and obtains a golden brown crust but is still …

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Secrets to St. Louis' Gooey Butter Goodness

Baked crisp or extra gooey. No matter the style or recipe St. Louis bakers know how to satisfy customers cravings for St Louis' favorite cake—the Gooey Butter.

St Louis’ gooey butter cake takes many forms. The classic recipe is built on a Danish-like coffee cake dough topped with a generous amount of chewy, vanilla buttery gooeyness. Other versions are built on everything from a shortbread crust to a dense cake that becomes the platform for the gooey filling. Which version is right?  It depends on what you grew up eating and how thick you like the filling. I grew up eating the coffee cake version with a 50/50 spilt of dough and filling that was baked by the Haas Bakery, an Affton commercial bakery that operated since 1925—and sadly closed last week. Thankfully, the gooey butter tradition in South County continues.  “You’re not a St Louis bakery if you don’t have a gooey butter cake,” said Slice …

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Affton's Haas Baking Co. Closes

The pastries distributor, specializing in gooey butter cake, has shuttered due to the bad economy.