Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

Prepared by Tanya Kreter

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Prep Time: 15 min

Inactive Prep Time: 2 hr 0 min

Cook Time: 12 min(I cooked for 10 min)

Level: Easy

Serves: 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

* 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 (I used Ghirardelli Dark

Chocolate brownie mix and 1/2 cup of flour)

* Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter

until smooth. Beat in the egg. Then beat in the vanilla extract. Beat in the

cake mix. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours to firm up so that you can roll

the batter into balls. Roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls

and then roll them in confectioner's sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie

sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain soft and

"gooey." Cool completely and sprinkle with more confectioners' sugar, if

desired.