{"id":211,"date":"2025-03-16T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/double-chocolate-gooey-butter-cakes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:36:26","slug":"double-chocolate-gooey-butter-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/double-chocolate-gooey-butter-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted, plus 8 more tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted, plus additional butter, for greasing pan<br \/>\n1 (18.25-ounce) package chocolate cake mix<br \/>\n1 egg, plus 2 eggs<br \/>\n1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened<br \/>\n3 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder<br \/>\n1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar<br \/>\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract<br \/>\n1 cup chopped nuts<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPreheat oven to 350 degrees F.<\/p>\n<p>Lightly grease a 13 by 9-inch baking pan.<\/p>\n<p>In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, 1 egg, and 1 stick melted butter, and stir until well blended. Pat mixture into prepared pan and set aside.<\/p>\n<p>In a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the remaining 2 eggs, and the cocoa powder. Lower the speed of the mixer, and add the powdered sugar. Continue beating until ingredients are well mixed. Slowly add the remaining 1 stick of melted butter, and the vanilla, continuing to beat the mixture until smooth. Stir in nuts with a rubber spatula. Spread filling over cake mixture in pan. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Be careful not to overcook the cake; the center should still be a little gooey when finished baking. Let cake partially cool on a wire rack before cutting into pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted, plus 8 more tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted, plus additional butter, for greasing pan 1 (18.25-ounce) package chocolate cake mix 1 egg, plus 2 eggs 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened 3 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup chopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dessert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}