Bread Company (original name: St. Louis Bread Company) makes a Danish with a gooey butter filling for the St. Louis market. More recently, Walgreens sells wrapped, individual slices of a version of St. Louis gooey butter cake as a snack alongside muffins, brownies, and cookies. Gooey butter cake is now widely available outside of the St. Louis area, as Walmart has been marketing a version called Paula Deen Baked Goods Original Gooey Butter Cake. While Walmart still sells a gooey butter cake, they dropped the Paula Deen version. Gooey butter cake ("butter cake") is also widely popular in German-style bakeries throughout the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, as well as down the Jersey Shore. Wawa has started selling different flavors of individually-wrapped gooey butter cakes. Modern versions of this confection, originally sold as a breakfast pastry or "coffee cake", have shown up on upscale restaurant menus across the Midwest and even the West coast. In popular culture On the SyFy television series Defiance, Nolan and Rafe discuss gooey butter cake while in Old St. Louis in the episode "Down In the Ground Where the Dead Men Go". It was featured on an episode of Pizza Masters titled "Leave Me in St. Louis". See also Butter cake Butterkuchen, the yeasted, German coffeecake that is topped with flecks of butter Chess pie, a similar dessert in the form of a pie Coffee cake Kuchen, the German name for cakes, the coffee cake style which may be similar to the base cake that Gooey butter cake developed from Philadelphia Butter Cake, a North Philadelphia cake similar to Gooey Butter cake Smearcase, a Baltimore cheesecake served in bar form that resembles Gooey Butter Cake St. Louis cuisine References External links (with recipe) Controversy over a television cook laying claim to Gooey butter cake described Cuisine of St. Louis Cuisine of the Midwestern United States American cakes Butter cakes