# Ooey Gooey Lemon Butter Bars

An easy-to-make, gooey, melt-in-your-mouth delicious lemon dessert, a lemon version of the Neiman Marcus bar dessert.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 box lemon cake mix
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 3.5 cups powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 block softened cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla
- non-stick cooking spray

## Instructions

1. Drop a box of lemon cake mix into a mixing bowl.
2. Add two whole eggs and one stick of melted butter.
3. Mix all ingredients together with a hand mixer.
4. Set the mixture aside.
5. Grab a 9x13 baking dish and line the bottom with parchment paper.
6. Ploop the lemon cake mix mixture into the baking dish.
7. Spread the mixture out evenly in the baking dish, using a spreading tool sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
8. Set the baking dish aside and grab another mixing bowl.
9. Add three and a half cups of powdered sugar, two more eggs, one block of softened cream cheese, and about a teaspoon of vanilla.
10. Mix until all ingredients are beautifully combined with a hand mixer.
11. Ploop this mixture on top of the lemon cake mix layer in the baking dish.
12. Spread this second layer out evenly, edge to edge.
13. Bake the whole thing in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
14. Once out of the oven, allow it to cool off completely as it will be molten lava hot.
15. Once cooled, grab the parchment paper and lift the dessert out of the baking dish.
16. Grab a knife and cut them into bars.

## Equipment

- mixing bowl
- hand mixer
- 9x13 baking dish
- parchment paper
- knife
- oven

## Tips

- Spray your spreading tool with non-stick cooking spray for easier spreading of the thick cake mix.
- The bars are even better the next day.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BwW9woonU/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/20fa0c27-c8e5-449d-83ec-2aff260bf7ff
- Extracted: 2026-05-23

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