St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Sometimes a recipe is so intriguing, so mysteriously alluring, so strange that there's nothing you can do but make it to see what it tastes like. That's precisely what happened when I saw this St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake on what's becoming my #1 favorite internet recipe resource, Smitten Kitchen. I'm friends with Deb--we ate noodles together a few weeks ago--so I hope she doesn't mind the fact that I'm cooking her entire ouvere here on my blog. I feel ok about it, though, because she...