Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies are the perfect combination of gooey butter cake, chocolate brownies, and soft cookies! Being from St. Louis, we are big fans of gooey butter cake. It’s even better when you add chocolate and make it into cookie form! Chocolate Cake Cookies just got an upgrade. This Chocolate version of the Gooey Butter Cookies Recipe is one of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes!
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Easy Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies Recipe
Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies are a must-make for any Gooey Butter Cake lover!
Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies had me at hello. Here in STL, we have a favorite dessert, ooey Gooey Butter Cake! We served it at our wedding and some out-of-town friends were so blown away I had to ship them some a few months later.
These Gooey Butter Cookies are ooey, gooey, buttery (yep…the title works), and just oh so addicting. I love it, but I wanted to see if I loved it just as much with chocolate and in cookie form. Spoiler alert, I DO!
This CHOCOLATE GOOEY BUTTER COOKIES RECIPE is out of this world and the perfect easy (Hello, they’re made from cake mix!) baking recipe for the holidays. You can make a batch to take to work, one to take to family Christmas, and a couple to keep at home and chip away little by little.
If you’re a fan of gooey butter cake, then you’re gonna LOVE these Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies!
Be sure to also try our Gooey Butter Cookies, Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake, and Gooey Butter Cake Martinis!
Chocolate cookies with gooey texture
These gooey butter cookies have the same great texture as Saint Louis Gooey Butter Cake, but with CHOCOLATE! I’m a huge fan of chocolate and if I have my choice, that’s what I’ll always pick. Slightly crispy outside and (you guessed it) gooey inside. Are these the ultimate Christmas cookie?! Just maybe! And they’re a great Valentine’s Day dessert too!
If you make a dozen of these for Santa I do believe you’ll get all your heart desires this year. No one making these lands on the naughty list. These cookies can win over anyone and everyone.
Chocolate Cake Cookies – Cake Mix Cookies
Chocolate Cake Cookies are an awesome Cake Mix Cookie Recipe to make for Christmas or any celebration.
Pat and I polished off more of these than I care to admit in less time than I care to admit. Hey, we are chasing around a crawling baby. A very fast crawling baby. My iPhone step counter doesn’t account for scooting across the floor at the speed of light. LOTS of calories burned around here.
I love that these Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies are made from CAKE MIX! Our Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies are one of my favorite backing hack recipes and these are just as easy and unique. A cake mix cookie recipe takes a lot of the measuring out of the equation which is great for new bakers. I want these cookies as fool-proof as possible. We are just learning around here!
Christmas Baking doesn’t have to be intimidating…it’s definitely possible to create AMAZING holiday desserts while still saving time and without being a pastry chef. I like to keep things EASY around here. I’m here to make holiday entertaining simple and still very delicious. We want to impress with the least amount of effort possible!
Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies are the type of cookie recipe that could make you famous. I hope generations from now my great great grandkids are talking about Grandma Becky’s famous Chocolate Cake Cookies! I have a feeling they will be. Brownie meets cookie meets cake. What on Earth could be better?!
Looking for more chocolate recipes?
- Chocolate Truffles
- Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Homemade Brownies from Scratch
- Easy French Silk Pie
- Easy S’more Cookies
- Oreo Poke Cake
- Chocolate Sugar Cookies
- Turtle Brownie Cake
Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake Cookies
Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
- Fine Mesh Sieve (optional)
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese 227 grams, room temperature (1 brick)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter 113 grams, room temperature (1 stick)
- 1 large egg 50 grams, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 grams
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 15.25 ounces Dark Chocolate Fudge Moist Chocolate Cake Mix 432 grams (1 box)
- 1 cup powdered sugar 113 grams (SEE NOTE)
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth, approximately 3 minutes.8 ounces cream cheese, 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Mix in the egg and vanilla extract.1 large egg, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Add the salt and cake mix and beat on medium until smooth, about 1½ minutes.15.25 ounces Dark Chocolate Fudge Moist Chocolate Cake Mix, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours, or until batter is firm enough to roll into balls.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the powdered sugar in a shallow bowl.1 cup powdered sugar
- Roll the chilled dough into 1-tablespoon-sized balls and roll the balls in the powdered sugar. Place the cookies 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheet.
- Once the oven has fully preheated, bake the cookies for 12 minutes (no longer). The cookies will look and feel a little wobbly and soft.
- Place tray on a cooling rack to cool for 2 minutes, and dust the cookies with more powdered sugar (I use a mesh sieve).
- Transfer individual cookies to the cooling rack to completely cool.
- Dust with more powdered sugar, if desired.
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Becky’s Tips
- NOTE: If a more intense chocolate flavor is desired, mix ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder with ½ cup powdered sugar for the powdered sugar coating.
- Originally, this recipe called for an 18-ounce box of cake mix. As 18-ounce boxes are harder to come by, the recipe has been adapted for a 15.25-ounce box of cake mix. You can use either size box in this recipe!
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this? Leave a comment!
I hate to rate before I make the recipe. I don’t have chocolate cake mix. Can I use the yellow and add cocoa to it? The regular gooey butter version is a hit. Being raised in the Lou we would get this after mass at Heimberger’s Bakery.
Yes, that should work! Add about 1/4 cup to turn your cake mix chocolate. You may need to add a bit more liquid to the mix to get the right consistency, though!
Most box cakes are now 15.8 oz and not the 18 oz most recipes call for. Will that make a difference when making the cookies.
It’ll still work!
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Yummy! These cookies were easy to make and taste awesome. It made 24 cookies. My son saw these when we were searching for cookies for his birthday. Happy we made them.
Thanks for sharing, Nikki!
I’m very familiar with gooey butter cake but these cookies are nothing like it. Not sure why they are called that. There is nothing gooey about them. They taste like and have the consistency of a piece of cake but let flavor.
I am sorry they weren’t to your taste, Kathy!
I think I may know why this happened – I made mine in batches, using the same batter. My first batch came out looking fluffy and perfect, but I’d left them in about 12 minutes instead of 10 as I got distracted and they ended up tasting like cake but a little bland. My second and third batches were in for exactly 10 minutes (I was careful), and they didn’t look as fluffy/perfect but they tasted amazing – still gooey and flavorful even hours later after they cooled. So that 10 minutes is critical, and may even need to be a little less depending on the size of the cookie.
Excuse me I mistyped – I meant 2 minutes extra – so 14 minutes was too long, not 12 :)
I bought fudge brownies by mistake can I use instead of cake mix
It may alter the recipe slightly, but that’s the fun in baking!
That looks realy yummy !! I would defenetly try making them
definitely*
Thanks Cesar!
yummy look delicious
Thank you!
Can I make half a batch and freeze the rest for future? How?
Ive been making these like crazy! My son loves the confetti Cake we use for the recipe! Can I freeze the batter to make individually and if so what’s baking times? Do I thaw?