Gooey Butter Cookies

Hey Otis, you're ready for the picnic to start, aren't you buddy

You want a treat? Yeah. Y'all, the first recipe that I'm going to share with y'all today

is called a chocolate gooey butter cookie. And it's one of those recipes that you're going to love

because you start with just a chocolate moist cake mix. So, I mean, that's a great start to a delicious, easy dessert

And we're going to add a little something different, though, to our mix

We're going to start with an eight-ounce package of cream cheese and a stick of butter that's been brought to room temperature

And we're just going to beat that until it's creamy. Aren't we, Otis

Aren't we? Uh-oh, and here comes your brother Cody. He heard the word treat, too

Okay. I've got this creamed nice and smooth together. Now I'm going to add an egg and give it another quick, quick beat

Okay now I gonna add a teaspoon of vanilla and I going to add the cake mix

Now, if y'all remember, if y'all are a big fan of the gooey butter cakes, this is mainly

the ingredients that go in the gooey butter cakes. We've got the cream cheese, we've got the butter, we've got the vanilla, we've got the

cake mix, but it's just the way that these are incorporated. They're incorporated all together rather than the different

layers of the normal gooey butter cake. And you can use any kind of chocolate cake mix

You can use a mocha or you can use even the devil's food cake

You know, as long as it's chocolate. Okay. You can see how stiff our battery is

but it's still not quite stiff enough. We want to make sure that when we put our cookie in the oven

it's not going to spread all over our cookie sheet. So I'm going to cover this and stick it in the refrigerator

and let it sit for about two hours until it nice and chilled And I got some that already ready in the refrigerator

And you can see how chilled that one is. So, Otis! All right, now we're going to just take our dough

and we're going to roll it into a ball a little smaller than a walnut

it. And then I'm going to take it and I'm going to roll it in powdered sugar. So this

is kind of going to give it a little crackled look after they're done. They're going to

be real chewy when we bite into them. Now we're going to bake these in a 350 degree

oven for about 10 minutes so it's not going to be long before we're all eating cookies

guys. Are y'all, are y'all missing another dog? Another dog named Gertie. Well, I was so sad the

other morning. I came into the kitchen and I found a note. Gertie told me that he just could not stand

being around all these other dogs anymore. So an agent had contacted him about getting his own show

So Gertie laughed And we miss her so very much don we guys So if I see Gertie again I tell her that y all ask about her and said hello

She's a very special girl. Okay, these are ready to go. So in the oven for 10 minutes

I think they're ready. Oh, and they are. They look just like I told you they were going to look

Because of rolling them in the powdered sugar, it gave them a crackled look

I don't like a real, real hot cookie, so these are nice and cool

and I'm just giving them an extra little sprinkle of powdered sugar

and they're just beautiful. They're a beautiful, beautiful cookie. They've got so much texture because we rolled them in that powdered sugar

Ooh. Mmm. Oh, my goodness, they're delicious. They're moist and almost chewy

Mmm. Really, really good