St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake
St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake recipe comes from Rozanek's Bakery, St. Louis, Missouri. This bakery has been in business for over 60 years.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- Confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Cake: In a mixing bowl, combine 1 cup flour and 3 tablespoons sugar.
- Cut in 1/3 cup butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling.
- Use a flat bottom measuring cup to pat into the bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan.
- Filling: In the mixing bowl, beat the 1 1/4 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter
or butter until combined.
- Beat in the corn syrup and egg until just combined.
- Add the 1 cup flour and evaporated milk alternately to the mixing bowl, beating until just combined (batter will appear slightly curdled).
- Pour into crust-lined baking pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 35 minutes or until cake is nearly firm when you shake it. It should jiggle slightly in the center
- Let cool in pan on wire rack.
- Remove to serving plate.
- Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.