Flavorful Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe
You’re going to love the flavor of this Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe. Not only does the melted chocolate make you crave more but it’s really a moist and simple cake to make. Add some extra mini marshmallows on top for a true treat! Check out my Over 20 Valentine Cake Recipes You’ll Love!
You can call this a Mississippi mud pie or a sheet cake or whatever you want but be certain to bake this up asap!
I love that it’s full of chocolate flavor and topped with such a sweet treat. This recipe is one that I’ve made a zillion times and I never get tired of it. Check out my other simple cake recipes as well.
Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe
Cocoa powder and dark chocolate are always a winning combination. When it comes to prepping a cake in less than 30 minutes, you’re going to find out that this recipe is fast and easy to do. Just make certain to let it cool completely before adding on the icing or whipped cream.
This is one recipe that everyone in the house loves and I can’t blame them. It’s a simple way to get a dessert that everyone will love.
Why is it called Mississippi mud cake?
It’s one of those names that just kinda started. More than likely this cake was invented in Mississippi and the cake tends to look like the mud there, which is where the name came from.
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Reminder, not all ingredients in the Mississippi Chocolate Cake Recipe are linked above, just the ones that may be a bit difficult to find or that you might be unsure of what to look for
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Refreshing Drink: Cotton Candy Mocktail
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What is the difference between mud cake and chocolate cake?
You’ll find that mud cake often has unsweetened chocolate or even cocoa powder in it as well. It’s a tad less sweet cake than a regular chocolate cake mix recipe.
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Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- ⦁ 1½ cup of softened butter
- ⦁ 1 cup of granulated sugar
- ⦁ 1½ cup of firmly packed light brown sugar
- ⦁ 3 ounces of melted unsweetened chocolate
- ⦁ ¼ cup of heavy cream
- ⦁ 2 tsp of vanilla extract
- ⦁ 6 eggs
- ⦁ 2¼ cups of all-purpose flour
- ⦁ ½ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⦁ ½ tsp of baking soda
- ⦁ 1 bag of mini marshmallows
- ⦁ 2 c cups of hopped pecans
Icing
- ⦁ 1 cup of firmly packed light brown sugar
- ⦁ 1 cup of heavy cream
- ⦁ ½ cup of butter cut into pieces
- ⦁ 5 ounces of small pieces of unsweetened chocolate
- ⦁ 3 oz of chopped semi-sweet chocolate
- ⦁ 2 T dark corn syrup
- ⦁ 1 tsp of vanilla extract
Instructions
- To make the Cake
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Like two cake pans sized 9X9X2 with foil. The foil should hang over the edge.
- Spray the foil with nonstick spray and then add flour as well.
- Put the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and butter in a mixing bowl and beat until fluffy. Mix in the vanilla, cream, and melted chocolate.
- Add the eggs in one at a time and mix each time.
- Grab a different bowl and mix in baking soda, cocoa, and flour.
- Put the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix.
- Pour the batter evenly between the two pans and bake on the center rack for about 25 minutes. Toothpick should come out clean to show the cakes are done.
- Take out of the oven and put on 1/2 the bag of marshmallows. Pour 1 cup of chopped pecans on each cake, too.
- Put back in the oven and bake long enough to melt the marshmallows.
- Take out of the oven and cool on a cooling pack in the pans.
To Make the Icing - Mix the sugar and cream in a saucepan. Put on medium high heat and stir until the sugar is smooth. Cook until a candy thermometer shows a temperature of 220 degrees. Take off the heat and whisk in the chocolate melts and the frosting.
- Put in the fridge for 1.5 hours and let it thicken.
- Take the cake layers out of the pans and take the foil off, too. Put one layer of the cake on a platter with the marshmallow side up. Put 1.5 cups of frosting on top.
- Put the other layer on top with the same marshmallow side facing up.
- Ice the sides of the cake well. Put 1/2 cup of the icing in the microwave in very short segments to warm it up enough so that it is thin.
- Drizzle over the top of the cake.
Nutrition
Do you call this Mississippi Mud Cake or something else?
