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Let’s hear it.
Who ate enough turkey to pop the button on their jeans? Who tried every single pie at dinner? Who licked the bowl of mashed potatoes clean?
Oh, just me? Huh.
Hope y’all had a fabulous Thanksgiving. Mine was wonderful. Full of food and family and all that good stuff.
Then my husband and I immediately went and spent every single penny in our bank account on Christmas gifts. ‘Tis the season!
After all the hard shopping work we did, I made us some cookies. Not just any cookies, though. These cookies aren’t the least bit cakey or chewy. Gooey really is the best descriptor. Even though these are nothing like a traditional chocolate chip cookie, they still make as one of my top 3 favorite chocolate chip cookies.
These Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cookies are basically Gooey Butter Cake in cookie form with some chocolate chips tossed in.
Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box butter cake mix
- 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat together the cream cheese and butter until well combined. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Add the cake mix and beat until well combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until the top is set, but the center is still gooey.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition Information:
inspired by Paula Deen
Rebecca R says
If you do this with white cake mix and rainbow sprinkles instead, you get really awesome Confetti Cookies (: and I have a feeling that lemon cake mix with white chocolate chips and cranberries would also be fantastic
Karly says
That is BRILLIANT! 🙂
Shannon says
I’m such a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies- what a fun spin on them! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Danae says
Followed the directions exactly. These aren’t a winner in our house.
Karly says
Sorry to hear that!
Jenny says
Ok made these last night and only have 6 left! Discovered they are AMAZING dipped in coffee! Seriously they’re awesome!
Andrea says
These were a huge hit! My husband not a big cookie fan and ate nine of them! My two boys are hooked as well. Took me 5 minutes to throw it together, three ovens going and 12 minutes for warm cookies after dinner tonight.
Kim Stebbins says
Wow! Once, back in 1995, my bakery made 6000 ( I’m not lying) gooey butter cake squares for an event. Alas, The event went broke and the check they wrote me bounced. I haven’t eaten ooey gooey butter cake since. But. THIS recipe may be the one to bring me back!Thank you for sharing!
Kathleen R says
How many cookies does it make? This sounds great for the holidays, but I need to know how many batches to make to get the # I need. LOL
Karly says
@Kathleen R,
It’ll make around 2 dozen, depending on the size you make them. I used my 2 tablespoon cookie scoop for right around 2 dozen cookies.
Jami says
Would a butter cake be the same as a yellow cake mix, or is there a separate butter cake mix? Thanks!
Karly says
@Jami,
You can use a yellow cake mix, but they do make butter cake mixes. 🙂 Either one would work fine, but I always opt for more butter. Haha!
Ashley @ Wishes and Dishes says
No matter how stuffed I am full of turkey there will always be room for these cookies….because they look beyond amazing!
Crafty grandma says
Yummy!! I will definitely have to make this – too bad the grand-children and son-in-law are allergic to cheese so they don’t know what they are missing. Reading the above comments made me LOL…I am well-ahead of you all, living in Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving at the beginning of October so I already worked off the extra pounds and getting ‘fit’ for Christmas dinner. Yummy! Who needs a fancy dress, my elastized granny pants will work well, good excuse to sit on the floor with the grand-kids to play games.
Krysten says
Tasted every pie? Check. Licked the bowl of mashed potatoes clean? Check. Scraped the bottom of the green bean casserole dish? Check. The turkey…eh. I’m a carb fiend.
And these cookies are happening very, very soon.
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings says
YUM! I need to make these 🙂
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl says
OMG. These look amazing! I need , something quick, easy and FABULOUS to take to a teacher’s luncheon on Friday…I think I just found it!
Joanne says
“gooey” is how I always want my chocolate chip cookies to be!! These sound perfectional!
sally @ sallys baking addiction says
my sister lives in st louis so gooey butter cake is only a HUGE tradition for us this time of year. putting all that into COOKIES. oh my god. karly. you are my idol. these are fat free, right?! 😉