Name: Ooey Gooey Butter Cake
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 pound (455 g) confectioners’ sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 8 ounces (225 g) cream cheese; 3 eggs; 1 recipe cream cheese ice cream; Butter for the baking pan; 1 cup (240 g) unsalted butter; 1 vanilla bean; 1 package yellow cake mix

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ample Hills Creamery

By Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna

Published 2014

About

This flavor is second only to Salted Crack Caramel in popularity. Nothing is sweeter, more sinful, or more of a guilty pleasure than Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. It’s exactly the indulgence you need to mend a broken heart. Originally a St. Louis tradition, the cake is something Brian first had during summers at Trout Lake in upstate New York. Hilda, the grand matron of Trout Lake, made the cakes for potluck dinners. Brian asked her for the recipe, but she said