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Gooey butter cake is a dense, flat coffee cake with a sticky butter-and-sugar top, somewhere between a cake and a custard bar. It is a St. Louis bakery staple eaten any time of day.
The cake is a St. Louis invention, most often dated to a German-American bakery in the 1930s where a baker reportedly reversed the proportions of butter and flour by mistake. Rather than throw it out, the bakery sold the dense, gooey result, and it caught on across the city's German bakeries. Today every St. Louis bakery makes a version, some with cream cheese and powdered sugar, others, like Federhofer's, without either, and Park Avenue Coffee turns out more than 70 flavours.
3 editor picks for Gooey butter cake in St. Louis, ranked by editorial score. All St. Louis signature dishes · Gooey butter cake across every city.
Missouri Baking Company ★ 4.4
the-hill · 2027 Edwards St, St. Louis, MO 63110
A family-run Italian-American bakery on The Hill, Missouri Baking Company is famous for cookies by the pound and a dense, almond-paste gooey butter cake.
Park Avenue Coffee ★ 4.2
lafayette-square · 1919 Park Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104
Park Avenue Coffee bakes more than 70 varieties of gooey butter cake, the dessert invented here, served with house-roasted coffee in Lafayette Square.
Federhofer's Bakery ★ 4.1
affton · 9005 Gravois Rd, St. Louis, MO 63123
A decades-old Affton bakery, Federhofer's makes a distinctive gooey butter cake without cream cheese or powdered sugar, plus full cases of cakes and cookies.
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