Kura-Style Gooey Butter Cake

gooey butter cake baked as a tart, served cold

Makes 2 cakes · 323 kcal per serving

Ingredients

• 240 g All Purpose Flour
• 200 g White Sugar
• 9.1 g Baking Powder
• 3.1 g Salt
• 100 g Egg
• 113 g Butter
• 4.3 g Vanilla Extract

Method

1. Cake: Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, then mix in the eggs, melted butter, and vanilla until smooth. Press in 8 in / 20 cm parchment-lined pans.
2. Gooey layer: Beat the powdered sugar, vanilla, eggs, and softened cream cheese to a runny batter, then spread it over the cake layer in pans. Bake at 350°F / 175°C for ~34 min, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a rack before cutting. Chilling firms it toward a fudge bar, and it freezes well.

Notes

The linked video builds the crust from a boxed yellow cake mix; this makes that layer from scratch instead.