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Cake Mix Butter Cake

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Posted:11/10/20
Updated:4/26/22
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Moist ooey gooey Butter Cake recipe made with cake mix and 4 other ingredients. This easy recipe has a cream cheese crust over a cake mix layer.

baking dish filled with butter cake with one slice missing

Cake Mix Butter Cake Recipe

This Butter Cake recipe is delicious and easy to make. It’s made with a box of cake mix and 4 other ingredients (butter, eggs, cream cheese, powdered sugar). It only takes about 10 minutes to put together before it goes into the oven to bake.

The bottom layer is the cake layer, while the top layer is that ooey gooey cream cheese layer which will definitely be everyone’s favorite.

ingredients on table, cake mix, eggs, butter, sugar and cream cheese

What Makes it so Ooey Gooey?

When you bake this you might think it’s not done after the 45 minutes of baking time, but trust me it is. This cake is extremely moist and ooey gooey, and that’s because of the top layer of cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar.

After you remove the cake from the oven, allow to cool before cutting slices. As you can see, the cake will hold it’s shape and doesn’t fall apart while still being super ooey gooey!

a fork going into a slice of cake mix butter cake

How to Make

First, make sure to spray a 13×9 baking dish with nonstick spray to prevent the cake from sticking.

Make the bottom layer by mixing the cake mix, butter and eggs with a hand mixer and then pour into the baking dish. You can use either yellow cake mix or butter cake mix.

a pink electric hand mixer mixing ingredients together in white bowl

Make the top layer by mixing cream cheese, powdered sugar and eggs together and then spreading on top.

cream cheese frosting being poured into baking dish on top of cake layer

Bake for 45 minutes. Allow to cool before cutting into it as this will prevent it from falling apart when you serve.

golden brown crusty butter cake in white baking dish

You can cut this cake into however amount of slices you want. I usually do 9 or 12, but you can even do more as a little slice goes a long way.

square slice of butter cake on white plate

Variations

Love Chocolate? Make my Gooey Chocolate Butter Cake.

Want to make it festive? You can easily dress up this cake for the holidays by adding colorful sprinkles. You can even turn this into a Confetti Birthday Butter Cake by adding rainbow sprinkles to the batter.

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New York Cheesecake
Easy Strawberry Pie
Mini Birthday Cake
Baked Strawberry Donuts
Confetti Cake Batter Brownies
Blueberry Buckle Crumble Cake
Sprinkle Birthday Cake Muffins
Chewy Confetti Cookies

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Moist ooey gooey Butter Cake recipe made with cake mix and 4 other ingredients.  This easy recipe has a cream cheese crust over a cake mix layer.
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Moist ooey gooey Butter Cake recipe made with cake mix and 4 other ingredients. This easy recipe has a cream cheese crust over a cake mix layer.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
serves 12

Ingredients

  • 1 15.25 ounce box yellow cake mix or butter cake mix
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 4 eggs
  • 8 ounce cream cheese
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (equals a 16 oz box)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13×9 baking dish with nonstick spray.
  • Cream cake mix and butter together in a large bowl using a hand mixer. Add 2 eggs and continue mixing. Pour mixture into the bottom of the pan.
  • In the same bowl mix together cream cheese, powdered sugar and remaining 2 eggs. Spread this mixture on top of the first mixture.
  • Bake for 45 minutes. Allow to cool before cutting and serving.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
Keyword:cake mix butter cake
Did you make this?I love seeing what you’ve made! Tag me on Instagram at @BrooklynFarmGirl and don’t forget to leave a comment & rating below.

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  1. Linda says

    August 10, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    I have all the ingredients that I need thank you for making this simple I cannot wait to make this

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  2. L.A. Hill says

    February 13, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    We Halfed the cream cheese filing/icing and it turned out Great!!! The cream cheese filing melted and baked into the cake batter perfectly😃

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    • Pamela says

      January 20, 2022 at 4:37 pm

      Glad to hear you liked the butter cake – thanks for commenting! 🙂

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