dierbergs gooey butter cake recipe

I HAVE to make this now! Regular corn syrup is a great tool in home baking and candy making. Always. Ive been looking for a recipe for butter-cake! (I nudged and stretched it, like I suggest in the recipe.) Despite my incompetence, thank you for posting yet another delicious-sounding recipe! I am a St. Louis native living in Vail, CO., and I used your recipe as a thank you gift for a fellow St. Louisan here. This was a terribly panicky bake. I even somewhere have a PUMPKIN gooey butter cake recipe. Ive made this twice, and it takes about 3.5 hours to rise both times (our kitchen is quite cool) but its definitely worth the wait. Great recipe, thanks as usual!!! Once you have a bite of this cake, you will forever love it. Two years ago: Big Crumb Coffee Cake Oh yes, also, I baked it for 30 min. Egg: used 1 eggs worth of flax goo (ground flaxseeds mixed with water to make a goop), And for the topping I, too, moved from St. Louis. THANK YOU, DEB! pretty photos of new york makes me wish i were still there That cake sounds and looks divine, but omg that baby is just staggeringly adorable! Im from St. Louis, so I am very familiar with how it should taste, texture and all. OH. Alice Im not sure. How is is the day after baking? I love your blog and when I saw that you posted the real deal I felt like a dummy for not checking here first. Baked mine in a 913.5 glass baking dish and it was perfect after 25 minutes (the exterior crust cracked under the gentle pressure of a fork, but immediately below it was still wonderfully gooey. Hmm. This cake looks yummy, and so do Jacobs cheeks! Thank you, cant wait to try yours. Good luck! Ive been searching Flickr for gooey butter cake for a close-up of its texture, and came up with this: Chuck Norris. Also thought it was unusual that you and several others served this as a dessert. Instructions Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease a 912" pan. Being from St. Louis, I am so happy to be able to share this experience with my daughters. Im excited to try this. Will attempt to keep yeast alive next time. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes. Love the Dr. Seuss references! Nighty-night! i remember reading about this recipe, thinking that i should make it, then promptly forgetting about it. Happy Holiday Campers. thanks! Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe, its definitely going into my repertoire! And the St. Louis Art Museum serves a good one, or is that Chess Pie? Another treat that is just as good for breakfast as it is for dessert :) Thanks so much! I dunno. Made this last night and it is delicious. I became all too familiar with this delicious dessert after living there for 6 years! I mixed 3 Tbs room temperature milk with 2 Tbs warm water (108 F). It sits less than five feet away from me now, cooling and tempting me with its sweet, buttery smell. Im now temped to make it again, but Im trying to drop some LBs. There goes the wedding diet. I scoffed at that remembering that you said the yeasted base makes all the difference. Actually, I think we had one from Schnucks in my house every other week when I was growing up. Its absolutely the best everyday cake I ever had. I mixed the cake portion by hand (sans kneading), then let it rest for about 10 minutes before I spread it into my buttered pan. Beat for three minutes with an electric mixer set on medium high speed, or until smooth with NO lumps. When weve finished the last of the Caramel-Pecan Sticky Buns I have a feeling this will be next. Maybe not even tomorrow because Thursdays are hecticbut it is leftover day tomorrow on my meal planI bet my family woulnt mind at all if I made this! guides can provide various views as well instructional on items like expressive shipment impressive writing goes. Because Im a doofus now and then. I recently started blogging too, check out taganskitchen.blogspot.com. My sister, a Baker, adds lots of seasonal flavoring to her gooey butter cake. Thoughts? Im definitely going to have to try this one! Katie, there are as many different formulations of St Louis-style gooey butter cake as there are bakers. Ive always associated butter cakes with the German heritage of Philadelphia, but then guess where Im from. Place cake mix, 1 egg, and stick of butter (melted) into bowl of mixer and beat for 1 minute until it becomes a soft dough. Sounds divine! Oh delicious! I make these all the time for catering jobs. WebIngredients 1 box (15.25 to 18.25 ounces) yellow cake mix 4 large Dierbergs eggs (divided) cup Dierbergs butter, melted 1 teaspoons lemon extract 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened 1 box (1 pound) powdered sugar (3 cups) 1 This recipe should be interesting. It is a flat and dense cake made with wheat cake flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, typically near an inch tall, and dusted with powdered sugar. gorgeous photos too! I wonder if thats where I went wrong. Im thinking about adding some apples between the layers,ike an apple cake next time. Cool in pan on wire rack before cutting into squares. I spent 8 weeks studying abroad this summer in Cortona, Italy (amazing) and my roommate was from St. Louis. Big orange things blanketed with white snow. I know I say this every time I comment, but I love your website. Webdierbergs gooey butter cake recipe. If anyone out there has direct access to that particular variant recipe, by all means, please share! I saw the original article by Melissa Clark in the NYT but was hesitant about making it until I came across your website. The recipe as youve made it is so much better! Did I overbake it? I love the idea, from a few comments above, of spreading the base with a brown sugar meringue! Mine dried out wickedly by the next day, despite being tupperwared. Very yummy but not as good as now defunct Lake Forest:( Would love it if anyone knew a recipe for chocolate drops I have successfully addicted my children to them too! It got a little sun, then the temp dropped, and it turned out perfectly. Yum! This sounds like a perfect thing to bring to a baby shower this Sunday, do you think I could make the base and let it rise in the fridge overnight and then finish? Bakery gooey butter cakes were always this version (yeast cake) I have some old recipes from STL bakeries that are very similar. This recipe is wonderful and worthy, but doesnt exactly meet the high standard imposed by memory of the Lake Forest Pastry Shop buttercake. I loved seeing the pictures of your little one enjoying the snow. Thank you for a great dinner! Gooey butter cake is definitely something I take for granted, because though I could buy it every time I go to the grocery store, I havent had it in years. I just made this today. Golden syrup can usually be swapped for corn syrup with no problems; honey will probably be just fine but I cant say for absolute certain having not tried it yet. Thanks for the great recipe and wonderful instructions! Otherwise the timing will be too hard and Ill be forced to make the amazing quatro leches cake from Savuer, oh such torturous decisions! Let us know how it went in the comments below! I was born and raised in (and still do live in) St. Louis and have grown up having gooey butter cake at all sorts of occasions but not one of those (and not one recipe I have found) was ever made without using a boxed cake mix. Also agree with the lightly buttered pan AND wet hands to spread the dough out in the pan. I think we were eleven and eight. i went to college in st louis and i remember when i discovered these little squares of heaven at kaldis coffeehouse sigh. Thanks! My cake hasnt risen! Nothing cures you of greyslushdisgust faster than views like these. Thanks for posting, Deb! Would this or the monkey bread work better? Oh, well. I also added a layer of apple slices beneath the gooey layer, and some cinnamon to the topping. satisfy will include a copy of your application and moreover jop application cover letter. My 2 year old just made a mess with cake all over his face saying MMMMMMM! Im sure that since you have your adorable Jacob, you can appreciate the joy I feel seeing my children so happy enjoying something I made for them. Can I use dark corn syrup instead of the light, do you think? Seriously wow. Ive heard about Gooey Butter Cake from friends in St. Louis, but every time I searched for it the recipes that came up were cake mix based and I wanted to try the real thing. Yum! I do this by heating the the microwave on low power for 30 seconds. Are you familiar with this kind of cake? (Yes, it CAN get better than this!). Toasted ravioli can be great. Just discovered this site a few days ago and I am just crazy about it. Allow the pan to cool in the refrigerator before serving with confectioners sugar. 1 teaspoon kosher salt Any ideas? I just discovered your blog and it is my new favorite blog. http://www.saveur.com/contest_bow.jsp?ID=1000011142 He cried so loud we could have used him for avalanche control. Let it sit to rise, after 3 hours it hadnt risen. So glad I found this recipe on Yummly!! It had already started to warm up. Add the Your version looks authentic and yummy. Love the photos of Central Park, and of the wee one with his parents;-), This did not work well for me. The burnt marshmallow/crme brle comparison is right on. Then Ill go to the home and take her a few slices for putting me on to this. It looked amazing and frankly mine did as well. Also the bottom was browned quite a bit and I found the bottom layer of cake to be a bit dry. Jacob, as always, was the life of the party a 5-month old social butterfly! I have just read your St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake posting. Unfortunately, when I dissolved the yeast into the milk mixture, it clumped. So fast forward a week and here you are with a gooey butter cake. Thoughts? I will make it as soon as my new Kitchenaid stand mixer arrives in the mail!! Thanks for the post, I cant wait to try! If water is being used only as a cooking agent, ie boiling pasta, bain marie, etc. The real secret is this: use more sugar and more butter than you think could ever be remotely desirable, and you will have the perfect gooey butter cake. It was a beautiful, (if difficult), storm, wasnt it? My friends Alton Brown brownies were totally ignored in favor of this. Make sure to cool completely before slicing. My in-laws are dyed-in-the-wool, multi-generational St. Louis city dwellers and I remember eating this cake while listening to memories about when our part of South City was all clay mines and St. Louis had a streetcar. I will try it the old fashioned way and not cheat with the cake mix. In same mixer bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Fabulous! My mother used to make this (using a cake mix) and called it Chess Cake I remember loving it, and may just have to try your homemade recipe instead! Deb, youll have to add St. Louis to your to visit list and hit up Park Avenue Coffee and Bakery, where they specialize in gooey butter 50+ flavors. Mixture should foam slightly. Im Julie, author of JulieBlanner.com! There isnt a grocery store you can visit on a Sunday morning in St. Louis and NOT find this cake. Cheers! Ill give you a food tour of the city :). The Olympics are over, so I have to say your post today was a Triple Crown im serving this at brunch tomorrow, so i hope i can figure out how to store it properly overnight to preserve these extraordinary textures. But I do not know how to say that in english. And the cake looks interesting too! The base of the Plum Kuchen looks almost as thick as the Gooey Butter Cake, and its baked in the smaller pan. St. Louis has so much history and its so close-knit its like a giant small town. Its almost laughable to think that so many people make it the lazy way boxed cake mix & cream cheese, and wind up thinking its somehow more delicious than this. Were I Proust, these would be my Madeleines. After a few minutes of mixing, however, it all came together nicely. In this situation, where youre creaming, can you use regular mixing attachments or something else that is more common? Put it in for 7 more and the result was dry and crumbly bottom with a tasty but slightly firm top. I am so excited to try this for my husbands birthday today! Deb, Im developing a crush on your recipes and writing. Jacob is such a sweety!!!! No sign of baby yet, but mama is feeling happier. (I waited the full 3 hours just in case. love this blog. :). Ive been meaning to make this for ages and just finally did AMAZING! Im really late to the party, but thought youd like to know that your recipe for the St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake is almost identical to one that was printed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in January, 2012, which was the original Lake Forest Bakery (sadly, no longer in business) recipe. Related: butter and eggs really do need to be at room temp. The recipe I use starts with a cake mix and cream cheese for the topping and can be adapted in many ways (different flavor cake, adding nuts or chips to the topping,etc.) I made it in a glass dish and Did you make this? I had the same problems using a metal 13 x 9 pan too brown on the bottom and way past the gooey stage. Now living in California, this recipe makes me long for a visit back home to St Louis. Much love to you, Alex, and Jacob. So I figured if I was going to make a gooey recipe I was wary of, Id go for this one instead. We DO eat it for breakfast as coffee cake, but I remember having it for afterschool snacking too. I LOVE that my daughters are teenagers (yes, really. Gooey Butter Cake ingredients include cake mix, eggs, butter--of course, cream cheese and powdered sugar. Pat mixture into a 9x13-inch dish. This was done a long time ago! A local bakery offers 64 different flavors! Although it was a huge hit, it was far too rich for my taste. Ive made the ones that start with a cake mix, and they are much easier. Thanks LOVE your work! Adapted, just barely, from Melissa Clark at the New York Times, who adapted it from Molly Killeen at the Park Slope Farmers Market. No burnt topping on the pan. Sign up for myfree recipe cluband have amazing recipes delivered directly to your inbox each week! I guess some families might have it as a dessert cake, but we never did. In fact, Park Avenue Coffee makes a myriad of flavors, and Ive never had one I didnt love. Of course, cupcakes would be faster Obviously I need to make cake this weekend! Ginny It might be. I need to find an occasion to make this, immediately! Not only can I grab the original awesomeness, but I can snag a Key Lime Gooey Butter Cake as well. Where has this cake been all my life? Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well. Sherry. I cant wait to try this!!!! I am making this tomorrowand I bought salted butter! The only pumpkin recipes I can find out there use the cream cheese version of the topping. And today I noticed that SK is nominated in Saveur magazine:)! In a stand mixer cream together thebutter and 3 Tbsp of sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. When I saw the title, I thought Oh no! We may earn commission from the links on this page. because it was dang goodbut you know that just doesnt sum it upits really more than that, it was dang, dang, dang, dang, dang good! I waited till the top was brown like in your picture, but maybe it was too long. People love them. Am I close with this idea? This looks so friggin amazing!! 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