Chess Squares

Submitted by Juenessa

"These are a very moist, buttery cookie bar."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 25mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Yields: 15 cookie bars

ingredients

• 1 box butter recipe cake mix
• 4 eggs
• 118.29 ml butter or 118.29 ml margarine, melted
• 9.85 ml vanilla, divided
• 226.79 g package cream cheese, softened
• 453.59 g box powdered sugar

directions

1. Combine cake mix, 1 egg, butter and 1 teaspoon vanilla and mix well.
2. Spread in a greased and floured 9 X 13 pan.
3. Batter will be very thick.
4. Combine remaining 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, cream cheese and powdered sugar and beat well with mixer.
5. Spread over cake mix mixture.
6. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour.
7. Refrigerate squares.

Reviews

[Epi Curious]

Made these today for Bunco and couldn't resist sampling to compare your recipe to mine. (The only difference is that you double the vanilla and also have vanilla in the crust). Yours wins! These rock! Anyone who likes chess pie or buttermilk pie will like these even more...more "solid", love the way the top puffs up. BTW, had to save some for my kids or they'd never speak to me again...GREAT, quick & easy recipe. Thanks so much!

 

[Loveda Yum]

Very easy to make. I surprised myself how quickly I put them together. Definitely bake the full hour. Took them to work and got rave reviews. Very sweet and rich so cut the squares small.

 

[cookin mimi]

I needed a sweet treat for a small meeting so I made just half a recipe. I only used half a cake mix, etc. It got raves!! thanks for a recipe for a quick tasty dessert.

 

[Josie-Jo]

These were soooo good. My grandmother has a very similar recipe that I find just as delicious. The batter is not pourable. It is more like a cookie dough and has to be "patted" out to fit a 9x13 inch pan. Mine definitely needed the full hour for the top of be solid. It kind of puffs up and then it's ready. Thankx for sharing.

 

[AngelaTN]

I don't like Chess Pie at all, but when my sister-in-law introduced me to these little gems, I could not stop eating them. These are SO delicious! Sweet, but gooey and with more "substance" to them than a regular chess pie. I am glad I finally have the recipe. Thank you!