Chocolate Marble Gooey Butter Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 15
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 8 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 large egg
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temerature
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 tablespoons butter, melted
• 3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (6 oz.)

Recipe

• 1 place a rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
• 2 for the crust, mix the cake mix, melted butter and egg in bowl and blend on low speed 2 minutes. (if using a handheld mixer, you'll probably have to kick up the speed to medium).
• 3 pat the batter into an ungreased 9x13 pan smoothing it out so it's even.
• 4 for the filling: beat the cream cheese in the same bowl for 30 seconds until fluffy.
• 5 add eggs, vanilla and melted butter beating on medium speed for 1 minute.
• 6 slowly add the confectioners sugar until well blended. beat 1 minute more.
• 7 reserve 1 cup of cheese mixture. spread remaining mixture over the crust, smoothing till even.
• 8 melt chocolate chips in pan over boiling water, or melt in microwave 1 minute at a time making just until melted.
• 9 stir the chocolate (still hot) with the reserved cheese filling until well blended.
• 10 spoon chocolate over filling in pan and swirl with a knife for marbling effect.
• 11 bake 45 - 47 minutes until it is well browned, but the center still jiggles when you shake the pan.
• 12 remove pan and cool at least 30 minutes. before cutting into bars. store 4 days on counter, or 1 week in refrigerator. this can also be frozen up to 6 months.