Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake is a delicious and easy summery dessert.
We stayed in a lovely beach house on the Massachusetts coast a couple of weeks ago. It’s a place we go every summer, and we enjoy it so much. It’s something we look forward to all year long. Everyone should have something like that!
I’m always amazed by the blueberries that I am able to find in Massachusetts. They’re infinitely more perfect and plump than anything I can ever find on the West coast. So I pretty much go blueberry-crazy whenever I’m in Massachusetts in the summer. I added some of those delightful blueberries to the infamous gooey butter cake to create a Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake. It was a very good idea, I must say!
I used a base recipe for Gooey Butter Cake (good all on its own). And I simply added a boatload of fresh blueberries on top. Yes, this recipe begins with a yellow cake mix from a box. Do I care? No, because sometimes I use the boxed mixes anyways. It’s a super good cake. And it’s a totally easy and impressive recipe to serve to guests. I did just that.
I served it to beach house neighbor guests who we hosted for dinner. They ate every last bite of this dessert, and I heard lots of Mmmm’s and Ahhh’s. I’d say it was a hit. And no one suspected it began with a boxed cake mix!
So be inspired to try out this dessert sometime this summer, especially if you can find a couple of handfuls of wonderful, fresh, plump blueberries!
Here are a few more fruit-themed cake recipes you might enjoy:
- Strawberry Layer Cake with Cheesecake Frosting
- Fresh Peach Cake
- Strawberry Cheesecake Cake
- Easy Blackberry Pound Cake
- Lemon and Blueberry Upside Down Cake
- Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake
- Raspberry Cheesecake Cake
Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake
Ingredients
- One 15.25-ounce box yellow cake mix
- 3 large eggs, divided
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter (divided), melt each stick in a separate bowl
- One 8-ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 16 ounces powdered sugar
- 1½ to 2 cups fresh blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13x9-inch pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the cake mix, 1 egg and 1 stick of melted butter until well combined. Pat the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- In a separate large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add 2 eggs, vanilla and remaining 1 stick of butter (melted) and beat to combine. Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well. Spoon this mixture over the cake batter and use the spoon to spread to create an even layer. Sprinkle the fresh blueberries on top. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes- just until the cake seems set but is a little gooey in the center.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi there I am making this dessert for the 1st time. When you say Powdered Sugar, do you mean Icing Sugar? This looks like a delicious cake. I’m excited to prepare it.
Yes, powdered sugar is also known as confectioner’s sugar.
Should I put sugar on the blueberries before placing the, on top of the mixture?
No need to sugar the blueberries!
I can’t have cream cheese, what can I use to substitute.
I haven’t tried any substitutes in this recipe, but here are some substitution suggestions for cream cheese in baking (from Google): 8 oz lower fat cottage cheese plus 1/4 cup butter OR Equal amounts of lower fat (Neufchatel) cream cheese OR Equal parts of ricotta cheese plus plain yogurt. Good luck!
Great recipe. At Christmas, I used a Lemon cake mix and it’s awesome!!! I used frozen blueberries and they worked fine; no goopy issues. Made it with the Lemon cake mix.for my family reunion tomorrow. I think it will go over pretty well.
How many cups is 16 oz
Powdered sugar is usually sold in 16-ounce (1 pound) bags or boxes. In general: 1 pound = 3 1/2 to 4 cups unsifted powdered sugar.
Can frozen blueberries be used?
Probably!
Should this yummy and beautiful dessert be refrigerated?
It doesn’t need to be refrigerated, but you can certainly do so if you prefer.
Wish there was a made-from-scratch recipe for this – or I’ll just have to find a yellow cake mix that is Non-GMO with organic wheat. I won’t touch flour made from conventional wheat!
I was wondering if a little lemon juice would be good with the blueberries?
Maybe!
Hi, I have a question, it says to use 18 and 1/4 oz box of yellow cake mix but I can’t find that in the store the highest I can find is 16.5 Oz how did you measure 18 1/4 ounce box? Thanks, Rebecca
Go ahead and use the smaller size. The manufacturers have messed with the cake mix sizes, but the smaller size still works!
You can use the size that you found. The companies have changed the sizes slightly over the years, but the slightly smaller size works just fine.