Paula Deen Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies Recipe
Baking cookies brings comfort, joy, and sweet memories. These cookies feel rich, soft, and deeply chocolatey. Fans love Southern-style desserts with bold flavors.
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter softened
- Cream cheese softened
- Granulated sugar
- Large eggs
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth.
- Add sugar and mix until fluffy.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt.
- Slowly combine dry ingredients with wet.
- Chill dough for thirty minutes.
- Scoop dough and roll lightly.
- Coat dough balls with powdered sugar.
- Bake cookies for twelve minutes.
- Cool cookies completely before serving.
Notes
- Use room temperature ingredients always.
- Chill dough for best texture.
- Do not overbake cookies.
- Use quality cocoa powder.
- Space cookies evenly while baking.