THE Gooey Butter Cookies

Submitted by: lneuner09

Difficulty Rating: Moderate (only b/c they are time consuming)

Ingredients:

• 8 oz cream cheeese, softened 
• 1 stick butter, softened 
• 1 egg 
• 1 tbsp vanilla 
• 1 box yellow cake mix 
• 8 oz powdered sugar
  

Directions:

• Cream together cream cheese, butter, egg, and vanilla in stand mixer.*  Slowly add cake mix and blend well. Batter will the THICK. Chill for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350.  Put powedered sugar in a small bowl. Coat hands in powdered sugar (trust me). Take a rounded tablespoon of dough and knead in powdered sugar. Once kneaded, give dough one last roll in powdered sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet (I line with parchment paper).  Bake for 13-14 minutes. Refrigerate dough in between batches in the oven. Makes 3 dozen cookies.

* This can be done with a hand mixer, I'm sure. But I've busted 2 hand mixers with this recipe, I don't recommend it. Even the Kitchenaid had trouble with it.  The batter gets super thick and sticky, and has a way of ruining hand mixers. Just a heads up.

*posted by: michelle142*