The Best Ever Gooey Butter Cookies

5.0(9)

I like this recipe because you make the dough one day and bake the next. After you frig it over night the dough is easier to work with. I got this recipe from my sister, she's the one that told me to frig the dough overnight.

by Coffee lover·published 2008-10-17

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Servings

(24–36)

Total time

20 min

prep 10 min

Calories / serving

201 kcal

Ingredients (6)

serves

1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softenedmargarine
8 ounces cream cheese (soften)cream
1/4 teaspoon vanillavanilla
1 eggegg
1 (18 1/2 ounce) box butter recipe cake mixbutter
8 ounces powdered sugarsugar

Instructions (13 steps)

01Mix the butter ( I melt it in the microwave) and cream cheese ( I mix by hand with a wooden spoon, but any spoon would work).
02Add vanilla and the egg mix together.
03Add the Butter flavor cake mix.
04Put in the frig overnight.
05The next day.
06Preheat oven to 350.
07Spray cookie sheet very lightly ( if you use parchment paper don't spray cookie sheet, I prefer the parchment paper).

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