Gooey Butter Cake

Weather for a perfect Labor Day weekend. We're celebrating Labor Day, but it wouldn't be right without a tasty spread. Kelly's catering is here joining us live in studio, and you've got a gooey butter cake recipe that will keep people coming back for more and more for those who may be having, you know, a holiday festivity at their home. Yeah, so this is a Saint Louis cake. It's called a gooey butter cake, so it's a cake bottom, which is like a cake mix. Two eggs, two sticks of butter. You put that on the bottom and then you take cream cheese and you mix that with powdered sugar. And two eggs and you pour it on top. The bottom is kind of sticky. It's hard to cut out of a pan, so it's better if you put parchment paper on it and then you can take it out and cut it. We didn't do that on that one. That's why these look a little messy. OK, so then you just put the cream cheese mixture on top of it. The bottom part is very sticky, so when you put it on you either need like butter on your spoon, or if you're using your fingers, whatever you're going to use. Cause it sticks a lot. What makes it gooey? The cream cheese and the cake. It's not like a full cake mix. It's more. It's thicker, kind of like a brownie. OK, so instead of following the cake mix on a box, you really just use two eggs and two sticks of butter and you mix it and pour it, spread it on the bottom. Then the cream cheese on the top. Which is not over. And then you bake it. So I change it. You know, I've used different cake mixes. I use you can start with the cake mix. You can start with the cake mix, so you start with whatever flavor cake mix you want. The original gooey butter is just a butter cake with this topping to change it up because everyone should make their own. You can use lemon. You can use chocolate. You can use a confetti cake. You can use butter pecan. My favorite is using the butter pecan base. And then I put a salted caramel apple pie mix. The pie filling and then this on top. So this is I'll pick up two good pieces. This is the lemon. And this is the play on a black forest. So it's the chocolate, the cherry pie filling, and then the cream cheese on top, which you want to try lemon. I'll take the lemon. You want to try that one? So there can I ask how this all started? I was visiting my friend Stacy in Saint Louis, and I took her a caramel cake. And she was like, can you give me your recipe? And I'm like, yeah. And she let me taste this. I'm like, can you give me that recipe? So she sent me she sent me this probably 20 years ago. And I told her, I said, you know, I made this my own because I feel I can't recreate or no one can recreate someone else's recipe. Because it's fantastic. You know, you don't use the same. I might not use the same butter. My oven cooks differently. I might mix it differently. So you cannot duplicate someone else's recipe. So instead of trying to match theirs, make it your own. And so that's what I do. And you take this to festivals. She's at Juneteenth. She's at festivals all over Milwaukee County, all over really the area. You were in Strawberry Fest. Yep. Tomorrow we're at the Greenfield Farmer's Market. And we're going to have some of these because I made a lot. So we're going to be at the Greenfield Farmer's Market tomorrow. It's on 51st and Layton and it's from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. So we'll have the lemon, the black forest, and we'll have the original. And I always try to gauge when I find the YouTube videos to teach me how to cook things in the kitchen. How would you rate? Is this easy? Oh, it's very easy. It's very because it starts with the cake mix. Sure. It's simple. It's very simple. The hardest part is the bottom because it's so sticky. Other than that. And I definitely suggest putting parchment paper down so you can pull it out and cut because it's a hard cut. It's not it's very it's gooey. So as you can see from the pieces, they get a little messed up trying to get it out of a cake pan. So definitely do it on parchment paper. Pull the parchment paper out and then cut it. OK, the messier, the better. I know I was going to say these don't look messy to me. I think that's how they should look. Yeah, yeah. But sometimes people are very much in the presentation. I'm often not, but I'm more focused on the taste. Yeah, but I know people say they're amazing on the presentation, use parchment paper and then pull it out and it's easier to cut. And how can people find you? Yeah, they want to. I have a website. It's kellycatering.com and it's K-E-L-L-I-E and catering with a K. OK, Kelly Catering. Thank you so much for being here. You're welcome. Thank you for having me. Of course. Just got to find a look at your forecast on the other side of the break.