I make gooey butter cookies, along with stained glass cookies, Grinch cookies and peppermint bark cookies, every year around the holidays. They’re great for cookie exchanges and take just minutes to put together. You can’t stop at just one cookie!
Gooey Butter Cookies Ingredients
For these gooey butter cookies make sure you have cream cheese, butter, an egg, vanilla extract, cake mix and sprinkles. These cookies are some of my favorites for Christmas. If you make these for Christmas, take a look at some of my other favorite Christmas recipes like Christmas cookie dough dip, chocolate spritz cookies and eggnog cookies!
How Do You Make Gooey Butter Cookies?
This gooey butter cookies recipe starts with beating cream cheese and butter together with a stand mixer or an electric mixer in a large bowl. Add an egg, vanilla and white cake mix to the bowl and mix everything together. You will get a soft and sticky dough. Chill the dough until firm and make 1 inch balls out of the dough. Roll the balls in colorful sprinkles. Place them on a sheet pan or baking sheet and bake them. Place them on a wire rack to cool and enjoy the cookies!
Tips For The Perfect Cookies
Your cookies will form some cracks as they bake. This is normal and part of the charm of these rustic looking cookies. Don’t over bake your gooey butter cookies! They’re meant to be soft and gooey. If you have any issues with the dough sticking to your hands, you can coat your hands in a little cooking spray to make the process go smoother. If you feel like your balls of dough are too soft after you’ve rolled them, you can always put them back in the fridge to chill before you add the sprinkles.
Gooey Butter Cookie Flavor Variations
This gooey butter cookie recipe makes delicious, soft cookies as written. However, you can change the flavors to fit your taste.
Cake Mix: I use white cake mix, but yellow cake mix or chocolate cake mix would also be great options. Powdered Sugar: Try rolling your cookies in confectioners’ sugar instead of sprinkles. Flavoring: Try a little peppermint extract, rum extract or almond extract for more flavor! Sprinkles: Use any color sprinkles that you like for any holidays or any time of the year.
Gooey butter cookies are a super unique treat and they’re great for parties, holiday cookie exchanges and gift giving. I like to package up gooey butter cookies in gift tins and pass them out to family, friends and teachers during the holidays. Everyone is always so pleased to have a homemade gift. It is one of my most requested cookie recipes.
