Gooey Cake

A white cake mix gives a delicious vanilla flavor that would
be wonderful topped with sweetened sliced fruit or drizzled
with chocolate sauce.

1 Cake Mix (yellow is traditional, but pretty much any flavor will work)
1 cube butter (not margarine), melted
1 egg

Mix together to form a soft dough.  Press into a lightly greased 9X13 baking pan.

8 oz cream cheese, softened and broken into small pieces
2 eggs
4 cups powdered sugar
(you can add 2 Tbl cocoa powder if you are making a chocolate cake)

Beat together until smooth.  Spread evenly over dough in baking pan.  Bake 45-50 minutes or until just set in the center.  Cool before cutting.

I first tasted and got this recipe many years ago at an office pot luck.  The gentleman who brought it told us it was something he remembered his grandmother making when he'd spend summers with her on their farm as a child.  More recently, I've seen it in various places under names like Paula Deen's Gooey Butter Cake (but I've been making it longer than I even knew she existed!), Chess Squares and Texas Gold.  I'm guessing it's an old and widely common recipe so there's probably a whole bunch of other names, too.