Gooey Butter Cookies start with a cake mix and can be made up quickly. These pillow like cookies are soft, fluffy, light and so flavorful. Enjoy this classic cake mix cookie!
These Gooey Butter Cookies is Gooey Butter Cake in a cookie form. It starts with a cake mix and only has 5 ingredients! The simplicity of these cookies are an added bonus. They have a great taste AND they are easy to make!
Whenever I take it to a family gathering or potluck, it quickly disappears. In fact, I took these Gooey Butter Cookies to church last night and was again complimented on them. They also would be great for a Christmas cookie tray or exchange. Make these cookies with Gooey Strawberry Cookies or Christmas Cake Mix Cookies and you would have a complete cookie set!
Ingredients
- yellow cake mix - any brand will work. I used Betty Crocker for this recipe.
- egg
- cream cheese - any brand will work. I used Philadelphia for this recipe.
- butter - can use margarine
- vanilla extract
There are only 5 ingredients to this cookie and one of them is a yellow cake mix. There is no measuring flour or no messing around with baking soda. It is all neatly packaged in the cake mix.
Using a mixer
If you don't have a hand mixer or a stand mixer, these cookies can be mixed by hand. However, it is much easier to use a mixer. The mixer will make the dough blend together quickly as the cake mix can make the batter thicker than a normal cookie.
Rolling out the dough
The thing with these cookies is the dough is pretty sticky when you try to roll them into balls. A great tip for making these cake mix cookies is after you roll out the dough, roll them in powdered sugar, then flatten them slightly with the back of a spatula or bottom of a glass. Make sure the spatula or glass has a coating of powdered sugar on it so the dough won't stick.
Bake
After you flatten the cookies, pop them in oven and bake in a 350 degree oven. The cookies will bake quickly, so about 9 -12 minutes is what is needed. What you have is a delicious cookie that is soft, practically melts in your mouth and will be the talk of the table.
📖 Recipe
Gooey Butter Cookies
Print PinEquipment
- 1 Hand Mixer or stand mixer
Ingredients
- ½ cup margarine softened
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 13.25 oz yellow cake mix
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Mix together softened margarine and softened cream cheese using a hand mixer or stand mixer on low speed. You can mix by hand if needed, it will just take a little longer to mix together.
- Mix in egg and vanilla until blended.
- Blend in cake mix starting on low speed and increasing to medium speed until all incorporated together.
- Place powdered sugar in a small bowl. Roll dough into balls and roll into powdered sugar.
- Place dough on ungreased cookie sheet and flatten dough balls slightly using bottom of glass or spatula, coated with powdered sugar.
- Bake at 350℉ for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are firm.
- Place on cooling rack to cool. Serve.
Rica says
So soft, easy, and pretty!
Kim says
Thank you! They taste amazing too!!