But if you hail from St. Louis, your go-to treat might just be the city's signature gooey butter cake. This cake isn't quite a cake. As former St. Louis resident and Taste of Home Associate Editor ...

If you live in St. Louis, visit St. Louis, or just know someone from St. Louis, then you’ve probably tasted gooey butter cake. Walk into any local bakery or grocery store and you’ll find squares of ...

Legend has it that gooey butter cake was created by accident, at some unspecified moment in the first half of the 20th century in St. Louis, in an unnamed bakery, with an unclear set of ingredients.