Mississippi Mud Cake

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Chocolate and marshmallow.  A pretty amazing combination.

Because I am an overplanner and my biggest fear in life is running out of food, I decided that maybe the S’mores Bar, Italian Soda Bar and the Roasted Corn, Strawberry and Avocado Salsa I made for our Labor Day potluck BBQ might not be enough.  Never mind that there were 12 other families attending, all of them bringing something too!  Yeah, I have issues.  Anyone else have that issue?

I decided that a Mississippi Mud Cake was needed.  So I made one.  I think everyone at the party is glad I did.  You just can’t go wrong with chocolate and marshmallow.

The cake is made in a jelly roll pan so it makes a lot which is perfect for a potluck!  I also made half with nuts and half without.  I am a without nuts girl myself.  Love nuts, just not in my baked goods.

I spent quite a bit of time looking through my cake recipes.  I almost went with lemon but I kept coming back to chocolate and marshmallow.  So glad I did.

Recipe fromSouthern Living Our Best Ever Cakes & Pies

Mississippi Mud Cake

Printable Recipe

1 C butter

1 (4oz.) semisweet chocolate  baking bar, chopped

2 C sugar

1 1/2 C flour

1/2 C unsweetened c ocoa

4 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

3/4 tsp salt

1 (10.5 oz.) bag miniature marshmallows

1 C chopped pecans, optional

Preheat oven to 350.   Combine butter and semisweet chocolate into a microwave safe bowl and heat at high for 1 minute or until melted and smooth.  Stir at 30 second intervals.

Add sugar, flour, cocoa, eggs, vanilla and salt into chocolate mixture.  Pour batter into a greased 15 x 10 x 1 inch jelly roll pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.  Remove from oven and sprinkle with marshmallows.  Bake for an additional 8-10 minutes of until marshmallows begin to brown.  Remove from oven and drizzle warm cake with chocolate frosting (see below)

Chocolate Frosting

1/2 C butter

1/3  C milk

1/4 C unsweetened cocoa

1 -16 oz. package powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Melt butter in pan over medium heat.  Add in milk and cocoa, and bring mixture to a boil.  Stir constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add in powdered sugar and stir until smooth.  Add vanilla.  Use immediately.  If you need to thin it out add a little milk.  Sprinkle with chopped nuts