When I was newly married I fell in LOVE with the Food Network. I watched it all the time! I remember when Paula Deen first started, she was like my new hero! She has some of the best recipes. One of my favorites is for her Gooey Butter Cakes! I think I love it so much because you can adapt the recipe to almost any flavor! I have made the Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cakes and I don’t think that they lasted very long in my house! You can find the base Gooey Butter Cake Recipe on the Food Network Website, or just from a web search, but these Strawberries & Cream Gooey Butter Cakes are simply perfection!

Being a Florida girl, I love strawberries. It is Strawberry season in Central Florida, and I am finding Strawberries everywhere. These strawberries and cream gooey butter cakes are one of my favorite Gooey Butter Cakes that I adapted from Paula’s Recipe! I hope you guys enjoy them as much as we do!

Prep Time:15

Cook Time:40

Total Time:55

Ingredients

Cake

1 box Strawberry Cake Mix
1 egg
1/2 cup butter melted

Filling

8 oz. package cream cheese softened
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
16 oz. powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter melted

Instructions

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Lightly grease a 13x9 baking dish
In a bowl mix cake mix, eggs, and melted butter until dough forms.
Pat mixture into the bottom of the 13x9 pan; set aside.
Use your mixer and beat cream cheese until smooth; add eggs and vanilla. (6) Dump in confectioners’ sugar and beat well.
Reduce speed and slowly pour in butter.
Pour the finished filling onto the cake mixture and spread evenly.
Bake for 40 minutes. Cool and cut into bars. Make 20 to 24 bars

Servings: servings

Author: Amanda@AFewShortCuts.com

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4 Comments

Have you thought of how to make this recipe GF? I wondered if you could make a yellow/white cake mix recipe and add some strawberry jello to it… would that equate to a strawberry cake mix that is in the recipe. I would love your thoughts on this one.

Amanda @ A Few Short Cuts says:

September 2, 2010 at 10:51 pm

Jennifer, You are way ahead of me in the thought process! 🙂 I guess I have too much going on to think about it, but now you have me intrigued. I will have to play with the recipe and see what I can do.

I will let you know what I find out! 🙂

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These are awesome and everyone loved them. I have discovered that if you make them the day before and refrigerate them overnight they are even better! Thanks for the recipe:)

I added fresh strawberries OMG so good

Strawberries and Cream Gooey Butter Cakes