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From : Dave Drum
Date : Mon Aug 12 2024 04:36:00

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     Title: Original St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake (Heimburger Bakery)
Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Dairy
     Yield: 9 Servings

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     1 c  A-P flour
     3 tb Sugar
   1/3 c  Butter; softened

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 1 1/4 c  Sugar
   3/4 c  Butter; softened
     1 lg Egg
     1 c  A-P flour
   2/3 c  Evaporated milk
   1/4 c  Light corn syrup (Karo)
     1 ts Vanilla
          Powdered sugar

 Set oven to 350oF/175oC.

 Grease or coat a 9" x 9" x 2" metal baking pan with
 cooking spray.

 TO PREPARE CRUST: In mixing bowl, combine flour and
 sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs
 and starts to cling. Pat into the bottom of the greased
 baking pan.

 TO PREPARE FILLING: In mixing bowl, beat sugar and butter
 until light and fluffy. Mix in egg until combined. Add
 alternately the flour and evaporated milk, mixing after
 each addition. Add corn syrup and vanilla. Mix at medium
 speed until well blended. Pour batter into crust-lined
 baking pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

 Bake at 350oF/175oC for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake
 is nearly set. Do not overcook. Cool in pan. Dust with
 additional powdered sugar.

 NOTES: Believe it or not, Gooey Butter Cake is not a
 Southern recipe nor is it originally a Paula Deen recipe
 even though it is featured as one of her recipes on Food
 Network and in her new cookbook, Southern Cooking Bible.

 Gooey Butter Cake originated in St. Louis, MO, in the
 1930s. The original bakery, owned by a John Hoffman,
 hired a new baker who accidentally inverted two
 ingredients resulting in a gooey cake that became a best
 seller in bakeries throughout the St. Louis area.

 I dusted prior to baking and again after cooling.

 TASTE TEST RESULTS: The Original Gooey Butter Cake is a
 denser and less sweet version from the ones most of us
 are used to eating. When I make this again, I would make
 sure not to cook it as long so that it remains gooey.
 Those who aren't big Gooey Butter Cake fans seemed to
 prefer this one.

 Serves 9

 Adapted from Heimburger Bakery and published on the
 Junior League of St. Louis website and in the St. Louis
 Post-Dispatch.

 RECIPE FROM: http://www.mamasemptynest.com

 Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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