Preheat the oven to 375. Butter the bottom and sides of an 8-inch round cake pan; line bottom with a parchment round. Butter parchment and dust all over with cocoa powder shaking out excess ...

I’d like to bring up the topic of gooey butter cake. It's a sugary exploration of textures, a fascinating study of human ingenuity, and a dessert ... between two 8-inch round cake pans.