Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies are light and pillowy and melt in your mouth! At only six ingredients, they just might be your new favorite cookie!
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GOOEY BUTTER COOKIES
Serve these Gooey Butter Cookies as part of a Christmas dessert spread with Christmas Brownies, Reindeer Cookies, and soft & chewy Ginger Snaps.
It’s no secret that I’m a cookie lover. Given the choice, I would bake daily and never have to make dinner again. These ooey gooey butter cookies are dangerously easy and pair perfectly with a glass of milk.
For some reason, I associate these chocolate gooey butter cookies with Christmas. Maybe because I’ve made them for cookie exchanges, but they really are perfect any time of year.
Normally, cake mix cookies aren’t my favorite and I prefer to bake from scratch, but these are amazing. Only six ingredients so they’re easy to prep and Julia was able to help.
The end result is a soft, gooey, airy cookie that I couldn’t stop inhaling.
CHOCOLATE GOOEY BUTTER COOKIES INGREDIENTS
- Cream Cheese – You’ll need one brick (8 oz) of cream cheese, at room temperature.
- Butter – One stick of butter, also at room temperature. They are ooey gooey butter cookies, after all.
- Egg – One large egg.
- Vanilla Extract – Try to use a high quality vanilla extract instead of imitation.
- Chocolate Cake Mix – One box of chocolate cake mix. I like Dark Chocolate Fudge but you can swap out your favorite flavor.
- Powdered Sugar – Or confectioners’ sugar is needed for rolling and dusting the cookies.
HOW TO MAKE GOOEY BUTTER COOKIES
First, in the bowl of your stand mixer, or a large mixing bowl, add the cream cheese and butter and cream until smooth.
Then, beat in the egg. Then, beat in the vanilla.
Next, add in the cake mix and beat until fully combined. It will be thick.
Then, you’ll cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it chill in the fridge for around 2 hours to firm up.
Once your dough is chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set them aside.
Pour about a half a cup of powdered sugar into a shallow bowl.
Use a large cookie scoop to portion out the dough into balls, then roll in your hands so they’re smooth. Next, roll the balls in the powdered sugar until lightly coated and place on your prepared cookie sheets, 12 to sheet, leaving about 2″ in between each.
Bake at 350 for 12 minutes – the cookies should still look soft & gooey when you take them out.
Let them cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Dust with more powdered sugar, if desired.
TOOLS FROM AMAZON THAT WILL HELP YOU:
- Mixing Bowls – I like the grippy bottoms of these bowls.
- Stand Mixer – This dough gets thick so either use a stand mixer or a strong hand mixer.
- Cookie Scoop – I have them in all sizes & love them.
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GOOEY BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE
Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 8 oz cream cheese at room temp
- 1 stick butter at room temp
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 15.25 oz box moist chocolate cake mix I like Dark Chocolate Fudge
- ½ cup Confectioners' sugar for rolling & dusting
Instructions
- In the bowl of your stand mixer (or a large bowl with your hand mixer), add the cream cheese and butter and cream until smooth.
- Beat in the egg.
- Beat in the vanilla extract.
- Add in the cake mix and beat until fully combined.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let chill for around 2 hours to firm up.
- Once chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper. Set aside.
- Pour about 1/2 cup of powered sugar into a small bowl.
- Use a cookie scoop (Tablespoon) portion out dough, then roll into balls, then roll them in the powdered sugar until lightly coated. Place 12 per cookie sheet, about 2" apart.
- Bake for 12 minutes - the cookies should still look soft and gooey when you take them out.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then move to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Dust with more powdered sugar, if desired.
Notes
Recipe from Paula Deen
Nutrition
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Originally published June 9, 2016
Other cookies to dunk in your milk…
Dark Chocolate Salted Cookies
Crisp Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies
Wow, I wish I had these in my life NOW. 🙂
YUMMMM. I love these kind of cookies! I need to make some ASAP.
I agree, you do! I hope all is well with you & the babe =)