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!
Great i got to try it this weekend
So glad you liked them!
Hello Beck this is wonderful thanks ! I will try it
For your chocolate gooey butter cookies…is that salted or unsalted butter?
I would use unsalted here. Hope you love them!
cool !
Soo Yummy! I’ll try this recipe as soon as possible :p :p <3
Great! Let me know if you try it!
Miam miam, très appétissant et esthétique
Becky! OMG! Best cookies ever! I wasnt sure if i should refridgerate but i did and they were even better cold. New Cookie for our cookie tray this christmas. Thanks for sharing:) Happy Holiday’s!
YAY! I’m so glad you loved them!! Made my day to hear that. And honestly I didn’t keep mine cold but I want to try them that way next time, that sounds delish!
What is the kosher salt for on the chocolate gooey butter cake cookies recipe?
So sorry about that, we had accidentally left the salt out of the instructions. So glad you caught that :)
Hi! I made these last week for a christmas cookie exchange and they tasted FANTASTIC…a big hit at the paRty! They came out pretty flat and delicate….is that normal or did I do something wrong? After the first batch came out flat, I refrigerated the already rolled up balls before baking but it didn’t make much difference. Not a big deal because they were yummy, but just wondering if theyw ere supposed to be flat and deliCate. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad they tasted great! Ours weren’t super flat or delicate, they were pretty substantial. I’m not sure what the problem could have been…I’ll ask my Mom what she thinks as well.
Yummy! mm i test it this weekend.
Hope you love the recipe <3
I’ve never made butter cake before, but it sound awesome. And who doesn’t love a gooey buttery chocolate cookie? these sound so amazing! the boyfriend is a big fan of chocolate, so i may just have to make these for him :-)
Hope you love them!
Very nice thanks !
Yummy! I’ve never heard of butter cake cookies before but they sound delish! I can’t wait to try these, pining them for later!
Yay! Hope you love them :) :)
Really very interesting !