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Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • To make the Cake:
  • Heat oven to 350° F
  • Butter a 13x9x2-inch baking pan, set aside
  • Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a small bowl,
  • set aside
  • In a large bowl cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together
  • Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
  • Add flour mixture into butter mixture, add pecans
  • Spread batter into prepared pan
  • Bake cake until top springs back when touched in the center,
  • about 15 to 18 minutes
  • Remove from oven and place marshmallows evenly over top of cake
  • Return cake to oven until marshmallows are soft, about 2 to 3
  • minutes
  • Gently spread marshmallows over cake; immediately spread
  • frosting over marshmallow layer
  • Cool completely before cutting cake into squares
  • To Make The Frosting:
  • Cream the butter in a small bowl
  • Add confectioners' sugar and cocoa alternately with buttermilk
  • Mix to a spreading consistency adding additional buttermilk as
  • needed, add vanilla, cover and set aside
  • Makes about 2 cups frosting

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    " It was excellent "
    zena824 ate it and said...
    Great recipe.. i make these.....delicious...
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