A St. Louis Original! If you’re not from St. Louis then chances are you aren't familiar with Gooey Butter Cakes.
Gooey Butter Cake starts out with a yellow cake mix as the base (the crust) and it is filled with a mixture of powered sugar, butter and cream cheese. Typically it is served at breakfast, like a coffee cake, but, it's a great dessert treat as well.
There are several legends on how the Gooey Butter Cake first came about. The most common that it originated by mistake in Saint Louis the 1930s. According to legend, when a German baker added the wrong proportions of ingredients into a deep butter cake (similar to a pound cake) he was making, it baked to have a gooey filling. His wife then tasted the “mistake” and said, “It’s good, but it sure is gooey.” This led to its name Gooey Butter Cake.
Gooey Butter Cakes are sold in nearly every bakery in St. Louis and now, you can serve it to your family and friends with the world's only Gooey Butter Cake mix!
