{"id":80764,"date":"2025-12-12T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dessertfortwo.com\/?p=80764"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:20:06","slug":"christmas-ooey-gooey-butter-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dessertfortwo.com\/christmas-ooey-gooey-butter-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fans of butter cake need to lean into these Christmas Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies<\/strong>. The dough is made with more cream cheese than butter, and the results are meltingly soft tender chewy little cookies that you can bake with your favorite sprinkles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though I’m an LA girl now, I lived in St Louis for a few years. And thank god I did, because I would not have learned about gooey butter cake otherwise! I quickly fell in love with all things ooey gooey butter! My donut gooey butter cake<\/a><\/span> is my official homage to the midwestern recipe, and I make it for birthdays frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quickly turned that recipe into a small bite-sized version in the form of my gooey butter cake cookies<\/a><\/span>. (Please do not miss my chocolate gooey butter cake cookies<\/a><\/span> if you can!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding Christmas sprinkles to these crinkly, soft and chewy little cookies feels right! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve never had anything gooey butter, you need to know a few things:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. It’s usually made with cake mix. I don’t use cake mix for obvious reasons. In my opinion, cake mix tastes like an entire jar of artificial vanilla and nothing else. It’s so one-note and boring. My homemade version of ooey gooey butter cake contains real vanilla extract and the exact amount of eggs and egg yolks needed to get the classic chewy gooey texture. (It looks months to perfect that part, by the way!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Gooey butter recipes are gooey because they use cream cheese in addition to butter! This brings the best tang and density to the dough that you just cannot get in a simple cookie. You have to try it just once!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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