Chocolate Marble Gooey Butter Cake
- Crust
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- 8 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 large egg
- Filling
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temerature
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (6 oz.)
- Place a rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
- For the crust, mix the cake mix, melted butter and egg in bowl and blend on low speed 2 minutes. (if using a handheld mixer, you'll probably have to kick up the speed to medium).
- Pat the batter into an ungreased 9x13 pan smoothing it out so it's even.
- For the filling: beat the cream cheese in the same bowl for 30 seconds until fluffy.
- Add eggs, vanilla and melted butter beating on medium speed for 1 minute.
- Slowly add the confectioners sugar until well blended. Beat 1 minute more.
- Reserve 1 cup of cheese mixture. Spread remaining mixture over the crust, smoothing till even.
- Melt chocolate chips in pan over boiling water, or melt in microwave 1 minute at a time making just until melted.
- Stir the chocolate (still hot) with the reserved cheese filling until well blended.
- Spoon chocolate over filling in pan and swirl with a knife for marbling effect.
- Bake 45 - 47 minutes until it is well browned, but the center still jiggles when you shake the pan.
- Remove pan and cool at least 30 minutes. before cutting into bars. Store 4 days on counter, or 1 week in refrigerator. This can also be frozen up to 6 months.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-marble-gooey-butter-cake-194093 (may not work)