Kura-Style Gooey Butter Cake
gooey butter cake baked as a tart, served cold
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
- 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.
- 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 / 180°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.