Any seasoned cook will tell you – there are essential tools in the kitchen that make cooking an absolute pleasure. Right at the very top of this list for those that bake is the iconic KitchenAid mixer. It’s not just a stand mixer, it’s a KitchenAid. There’s a difference. We were approached by KitchenAid last year to review and give away their gorgeous, top of the line 7 quart kitchen mixer. We received ours, and it quickly became one of our favorite pieces of equipment in the kitchen. Even when it’s not in use, it sits there – a quiet, calm, serene piece of candy apple colored sculpture. When you need to mix something, there is no substitute. Here is the Strawberry Shortcake recipe we made with it:
KitchenAid is a sponsor of the Senior PGA Championship every year, which is being held at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, MO. They asked us to work with them again, and make a recipe that would showcase our gorgeous 7qt mixer and also tie into the regional cuisine. Our knowledge of St. Louis food was limited to BBQ, so we were a bit stumped on that one. How in the world were we going to do that? Then, after some internet sleuthing, we found out that “Gooey Butter Cake” is a sweet staple in the area, and we set out to make a grain-free version.
We decided to make this new recipe to share with everyone who could make it out to celebrate the release of Gather. We took the basic idea of the St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake, and sort of flew with the idea to come up with our own recipe. This ended up being a deliciously moist vanilla cake with a smooth, creamy, and of course gooey layer of sweet cream cheese topping. We are sure this recipe is not exactly as the original, but it was quite a hit. We are lucky we got a bite before the party because by the time we were done signing books it was completely gone!
St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake
Serves: 24
Serves: 24
Ingredients
- 1 cup 1 cup 1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened
- 1 cup 1 cup 1 cup Maple Sugar, or coconut sugar
- 3 3 3 Pastured Eggs
- 1 cup 1 cup 1 cup Coconut Milk
- 1 tsp 1 tsp 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/2 cup 2 1/2 cup 2 1/2 cup Blanched Almond Flour
- 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup Arrowroot Flour
- 4 tsp 4 tsp 4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp Salt
- 16 oz 16 oz 16 oz Full Fat Cream Cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 365 Organic Powdered Sugar, maple sugar, or coconut sugar
Process
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- In a KitchenAid mixer, cream the butter and maple sugar.
- Add the eggs one at a time, combining with the butter and sugar in the KitchenAid mixer.
- Add the coconut milk and the first teaspoon of vanilla extract, and continue to mix until the wet ingredients are combined.
- Slowly add the almond flour, one cup at a time, and continue to blend.
- Slowly add the arrowroot flour to the batter, and combine.
- Add the baking powder, and salt to the batter, and continue to combine until smooth.
- Line a 9x13 inch baking dish with parchment paper, and pour the batter into the dish. Smooth the batter until it is in an even layer.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees, and then turn the oven down to 350 degrees. Continue to bake for a remaining 10-15 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean when tested.
- Give your kitchen mixer a good wash, to prepare for making the topping.
- While the cake is baking, add the cream cheese, powdered sugar (or your choice of sweetener), and the second teaspoon of vanilla extract to the KitchenAid mixer, and blend until smooth.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool slightly.
- Top the cake with the cream cheese mixture, and carefully smooth to cover as much as the cake as possible.
- Place the cake back in the oven and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Remove from oven and smooth the gooey topping over the entire cake evenly.
- Allow cake to cool, dust with additional powdered sugar if desired, and slice into small squares.
The Giveaway:
To celebrate the Senior PGA Championship and the release of our new cookbook Gather, we’ve teamed up with KitchenAid to give away a 7 quart stand mixer to one lucky winner!
The Grand Prize: The KitchenAid® Pro Line® Series 7-Qt Bowl Lift Stand Mixer in Candy Apple Red
3 Runners Up: Each runner up will receive a signed copy of our new cookbook, Gather – The Art of Paleo Entertaining
Enter below.
I love to bake, but my little mixer just can’t keep up very well!
I have always wanted one of these. What a nice giveaway!!
Love this recipe and the mixer!
Love you cookbooks and site. You guys rock!!@
NEED a Kitchen Aid mixer!!!
This color just makes me smile. I have a 14 year old (boring white, reconditioned, still going strong) Kitchen Aid mixer that I would love to give to my daughter if I’m lucky enough to win this one. Fingers are crossed.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have this mixer to make all those yummy recipes in your books!
I’ve only made one gooey butter recipe before. I brought it into work and watched everyone’s eyes roll, it was so good. I’m going to have to try this one too!
I’d love to win this!
Well, this is rather ironic as I am right now making a gooey butter cake for my son’s 15th birthday in my KA mixer that is older than him. I would LOVE to win this mixer and mix up this much healthier version of this recipe for my family, as it is one of their favorites AND I could actually justify a eating a piece of it! 😉
this looks sooooo amazing
Would LOVE one of these.. and the St. Louie Ooey Gooey Berry Butter Cake my mom made growing up had blueberries and raspberries and sometimes blackberries backed into the topping 🙂 YUM!!
I believe this is the dessert recipe that I will make for our Mothers Day picnic! Oh to have a red KitchenAid to make it with……:)
What an amazing color!! This would be awesome to win! Or any of the other prizes! Can’t wait to make gooey butter cake!
I would love to win this Kitchen Aid Mixer! It’s been on my wish list for a long time!
I would LOVE to have this machine!
I would love to win this mixer – apple red just makes it perfect for my kitchen!
Can’t wait to try this. Amazing giveaway!
The cake looks delicious…and the mixers not bad either!
Yum! Would love to win!
Thank you for the fantastic recipes and blog content.
I’m from St. Louis and am so excited to try this grain-free version of gooey butter cake! Hopefully with my new Kitchen Aid!!!
I can only imagine the fabulous recipes I could create with this mixer! And I’d start with all of them from your wonderful site!
What a great color of Kitchen Aid! The cake looks delicious!
Red = Awesome 🙂
Can’t wait to try this cake recipe. And that red KitchenAid has been on my wishlist for a very long time.
What a gorgeous mixer…sigh…and the recipe looks pretty good too. I have been meaning to try some primal recipes (other than simple fruit things.).
Gorgeous red mixer…and I have GOT to own your cookbook. Between the section on Chinese food and this butter cake…I might be able to “convert” some family who thinks what we eat is strange and boring. (It’s just all that white flour talkin’)
would love to give this as a wedding gift to my daughter!
I only first heard of St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake after I had gone grain free, and thought, no way! But hey, here’s a way! It looks fantastic, and I may have to make that for my Mother’s Day treat – and making it in the future with a wonderful, beautiful Kitchen Aid mixer would be even better!!
This cake looks heavenly! Can’t wait to make it!
That cake looks absolutely delicious! I would love to win the KA mixer, as I’m moving into my first apartment and would love to christen it with this fancy mixer! Getting my hands on “Gather” would be awesome, too! Thanks for the opportunity!
I have always wanted one of these mixers:) We have a few bakers in the house so it would be well used. Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
That cake looks awesome…but not as awesome as that mixer!
How cool would it be to win a killer KitchenAID?!?
A Kitchen Aid would complete my kitchen!
I have heard Gather is fantastic, and am planning to order it!
KitchenAid makes the most beautiful kitchen gadgets. I would love to win this mixer so I don’t have to whisk my eggwhites to stiff peaks by hand haha.
Awesome giveaway! 🙂
I love that it is red.
It would be one of the best days of my life if I won this!
What a fantastic opportunity to win a kitchen aid mixer. Thank you so much, I hope I am lucky enough to try out this recipe in my new kitchen aid mixer!
I want the book AND the cake! I’d take the mixer too. 😉
I desperately need one of these!
Hello Red, you would look great in my kitchen. And I have to laugh, I brought my copy of Gather into work, and coworkers weren’t interested in that Paleo cr-p until I started reading off the recipes. 🙂
Yumm! Just in time for mother’s day!
Would love to own one! And the cake looks so yummy! Anything with cream cheese is always good!
What a great prize! Would love to win! (My husband would love it, too, lol)
Great giveaway! Can’t wait to try the recipe, the mixer would be a great help!
Oooh… I would LOVE LOVE LOVE this! Right now I do everything by hand or with a cheap food processor from the 80’s that I bought for $1 at a garage sale. I’ve been dreaming of a Kitchen Aid for a while… 🙂
Standing mixers can make wonderfully fluffy cakes and cookies!