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Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

Source of Recipe

Paula Deen


Recipe Introduction

Linda Wargo Cookie Swap December 2010

Recipe Link: recipecircus.com/recipes/wargofive/

List of Ingredients

1 (8-oz) cream cheese, room temperature
1 stick butter, at room temperature
1 egg
1 t vanilla extract
1 (18-oz) box moist chocolate cake mix
(I used a Red Velvet Cake Mix)
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in the egg. Then beat in the vanilla extract. Beat in the cake mix. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours to firm up so that you can roll the batter into balls. Roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in confectioner's sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2" apart. Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain soft and "gooey." Cool completely and sprinkle with more confectioners' sugar, if desired. Makes 24 cookies.