Gooey Butter Cake Bars.”

These decadent Gooey Butter Cake Bars are also known as Neiman Marcus bars and are made with only 6 ingredients. These indulgent treat bars have a cake-like crust with a gooey center and a crinkle-crackly top

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If you couldn’t tell by the name, these ooey gooey butter bars are truly a rich dessert. They’re full of buttery goodness and sweet sugar- the recipe for a sinfully sweet treat. They’re almost as heavenly as these Caramel Apple Crumble Bars or my Apple Pie Bars. Consider this your warning that these Gooey Cake Bars are a real sweet, rich treat.

Why should I make these bars?

These simple Gooey Butter Cake Bars come together quickly in under an hour. 

They easily satisfy that sweet tooth and go incredibly well with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. 

I have found that since these are so, so easy to make, they have become one of our favorite desserts to enjoy any time of the year. 

Let’s Gather the Ingredients

• Yellow cake mix: Any brand will work.
• Dairy: melted butter and softened cream cheese
• Eggs:
• Vanilla extract:
• Confectioner’s sugar: also called powdered sugar.

How To Make Gooey Butter Cake Bars

• Step 1: In a large mixing bowl, add the box of yellow cake mix, the melted butter, and two eggs. Use a hand mixer to beat everything together until combined.
• Step 2: Line your baking dish with parchment paper or foil, and pour cake batter into the baking dish. Use a rubber spatula or the back of a spoon sprayed with nonstick cooking spray to smooth out the batter.

• Step 3: Add softened cream cheese with the other two eggs, vanilla and powdered sugar, in a separate medium bowl, and beat until smooth.
• Step 4: Pour the gooey cream cheese layer over the cake batter layer. Bake until the top cracks a bit and the buttery crust layer is finished baking. The middle layer may still be gooey. Be sure to let the cake cool completely before cutting into bars. 

Recipe Tips

• You could use other flavored cake mixes, but this would change the classic Gooey Butter Cake Bars flavor that you would originally have. Chocolate cake mix, white cake mix.
• I find room-temperature ingredients mix more easily than chilled ingredients. Like most cakes, this cake bakes best when on the middle oven rack.
• For a slight flavor profile change, swap the vanilla extract out for some almond extract.