Looking for an easy dessert that will impress your family and friends? These decadent Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars are knock your socks off good and quick to put together with just six ingredients.
Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars
A mom of one of Barbara’s high school friends would make a version of these dessert bars, and when she ran across this recipe in her Glenwood (college cooperative) stash, she had to know if they were one in the same.
Her verdict? Barbara was pleasantly surprised to find out they were indeed just as delicious as the ones from her memories.
Recipes that start with a cake mix are the ultimate time savers. These Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars also use ingredients that most of us have on hand the majority of the time. That means this is one recipe we can whip up for a last minute dessert or afternoon snack for the kiddos.
You always have at least one package of cream cheese (or 4) in your refrigerator, right? Please tell us we aren’t the only ones that consider cream cheese a kitchen “staple”!
How to Make Gooey Bars with Cake Mix:
Instructions:
- Mix together cake mix, butter and eggs and press into bottom of 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Beat cream cheese, eggs and powdered sugar until smooth; spread over the crust layer.
- Bake at 350 degrees F around 35 minutes.
For the full recipe for cake mix gooey bars, scroll to the bottom of this post.
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Looking for an easy dessert that will impress your family and friends? These decadent Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars are knock your socks off good and quick to put together with just six ingredients.
- 1 16.5 oz. yellow cake mix
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 2 eggs
- 8 oz. cream cheese softened
- 2 eggs
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Mix cake mix, melted butter and 2 eggs together and press into a greased 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
- Beat cream cheese, 2 eggs and powdered sugar until well incorporated.
- Spread onto cake mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
Need some more ideas for those uninspiring boxed cake mixes in your pantry?
We have plenty of ideas for you:
For diabetic could I use splenda in place of powder sugar??? Thanks!😀
Deb – We have not tried anything other than powdered sugar in this recipe. Here’s a link to a blog post that talks about using a bit of corn starch with Splenda in a food processor to make a substitution for powdered sugar (https://www.thespruceeats.com/sugar-free-powdered-sugar-replacement-521019) but we haven’t tried it!
These all look delicious!!! How can you choose????
I made this the night before for Sunday school the next morning. Kept it in the fridge overnight. I stopped at 3 cups of sugar and omitted that last 1/2. They were plenty sweet enough. Except for a couple of cream cheese haters, this was a hit. Thanks so much for sharing this.
So glad they were a hit. Thank you for letting us know!
As if we hadn’t had enough sweets at Christmas, I saw these and thought they would be a perfect reward for taking down the tree tonight. Bit, was I right!! Thank you for sharing such a decadent treat! It’s definitely going into my recipe box!
Donna, thank you for the note. We love these too and they are the perfect reward!
Do these need to be refrigerated?
They don’t need to be refrigerated but you can if you’d like!
Can fruit be added to these? Like blueberries or strawberries?
We haven’t added fruit to the cake but you definitely could. Either drop them on the top and press down before baking. Maybe stir in strawberries into the top layer before adding to the pan. Good luck!
Can you use a white box mix? That is what I have on hand.
Julie-You should be able to use any type of cake mix. We haven’t made them with a white cake but we love a good white cake!