1. Gooey Butter Cake Founded in 1930

2. John Hoffman was the owner of the bakery where the mistake was made. The real story is there are two types of butter "smears" used in a bakery: a gooey butter and a deep butter. The deep butter was used for deep butter coffee cakes. The gooey butter was used as an adhesive for things like Danish rolls. Danish rolls Hoffman hired a new baker that was supposed to make deep butter cakes, but got the two butter smears mixed up. The mistake wasn't caught until after the cakes came out of the proof box.. The new type of cake sold so well, Hoffman kept producing them and soon, so did the other bakers around St. Louis.proof box

3. EVOLUTION From 1930-1950 it was made as one single layer. 1950-1990 they started to put two layers on it. After 1990 they perfected it.

4. Facts this luscious dessert hasn't spread too far from it's roots in the last 70 years. Gooey Butter Cake was invented in St. Louis, Missouri in the late 1930's. It got its name from someone saying Its gooey.

5. John Hoffmman and Baker

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