Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

• 1 (8-ounce) brick cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 stick butter, at room temperature
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (18-ounce) box moist chocolate cake mix
• 1 cup of Confectioners' sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 350u0b0
2. Beat the cream cheese and butter in a mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
3. Add the cake mix then beat until well incorporated.
4. Cover with a saran wrap then store in the fridge to chill for 2 hours. This will firm up the batter which would make it easier to form into balls.
5. After chilling for 2 hours, pick a tablespoon batter and roll into a ball.
6. Place the confectionery sugar into a flat container/pie plate. Roll the balls into the powdered sugar.
7. Place the cookie balls in a cookie sheet. Bake them in the oven for 10 minutes. Do this in batches.
8. Cool the cookies in a wire rack completely. Sprinkle more powdered sugar if you want to. Like I said, slightly crunchy on the outside but soft, buttery, and moist on the inside.

brick cream cheese, butter, egg, vanilla, chocolate cake, sugar

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/chocolate-gooey-butter-cookies-50103657 (may not work)