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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 350°F/175°C.

  Grease or coat a 9x9x2" metal baking pan with cooking spray.

  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.

  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 350°F/175°C 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.

  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.

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

  Recipe FROM: Midwest Living, Oct 1994

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

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