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"OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
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"OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
My mother first introduced this little diet-breaker to our family Christmas in 1968. I inherited responsibility for making it in 1998. At first I was panicking that it would be way beyond my culinary non-expertise, but my mother was still healthy enough to talk me through my first endeavor.

I've experimented a couple of times, replacing the walnuts with macadamias one year (I had just returned from Hawaii) and using whole wheat flour (don't).

Anyway -- enjoy.

FRAN’S MISSISSIPPI MUD CAKE

Ingredients:
CAKE
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 sticks butter/margarine, melted
1 ½ cup sifted flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup angel flake coconut
1 to 2 cups walnuts or pecans, chopped
1 jar marshmallow crème

Beat eggs and sugar until they are thick. Combine melted butter/margarine, flour, cocoa and vanilla. Fold in nuts and coconut. Pour into greased and floured 13x9 inch pan and bake at 350° F for 30-35 minutes. Use toothpick to check for doneness.
Remove cake from oven, immediately spread marshmallow crème. Let cake set and cool just a bit before frosting. While frosting, allow chocolate frosting and marshmallow crème to combine slightly in swirls.

Frosting can be prepared while cake is baking.

FROSTING:
1 stick butter/margarine, melted
3 Tbls. milk
1/3 cup cocoa
1-1 lb box powdered sugar
1 to 2 cups chopped nuts (optional)

Combine dry ingredients, add butter/margarine, beat well (add nuts). Spread frosting over marshmallow crème (see note above).

Allow cake to cool thoroughly before serving. Keep covered.

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake CTgirl 12-24-09 1
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Maroonclown 12-26-09 2
   RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake qwertypie 12-26-09 3
       RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Molaholic 12-26-09 4
       RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Maroonclown 12-28-09 5
           RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Molaholic 12-28-09 6
               RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Maroonclown 12-30-09 12
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Seana 12-28-09 7
   RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake arkiegrl 12-28-09 8
       RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Seana 12-28-09 9
 Oh my ... Karchita 12-29-09 10
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake frodis 12-29-09 11
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Snidget 01-05-10 13
   RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake frodis 01-06-10 15
       RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Snidget 01-06-10 17
 RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake Ahtumbreez 01-06-10 14
   RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake weltek 01-06-10 16
 Yum Seana 01-13-10 18
   RE: Yum weltek 01-13-10 19
 Pictures weltek 01-29-10 20
 Better late than never!!!!!! qwertypie 02-27-10 21
   RE: Better late than never!!!!!! qwertypie 02-28-10 22
       RE: Better late than never!!!!!! weltek 02-28-10 23
       RE: Better late than never!!!!!! qwertypie 03-02-10 24

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1. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
That looks yummy! I'm glad that it doesn't have mocha in it. Usually mud in a recipe equals coffee and I don't like the flavor! I will save that recipe for sometime when I need to make a birthday cake.

Enjoy!


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2. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Oh gosh. I haven't made the braised short ribs yet.

I'm afraid I'll have to bow out on this one. I don't bake. It's not that I don't want to it's just I'm a miserable failure at it.

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3. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Oh let's be adventurous. I have the worst luck with cakes (with several ovens, pans, baking powders, flours, etc.). I will try this if you will!
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4. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
LAST EDITED ON 12-26-09 AT 03:58 PM (EST)

Just so you know -- the toughest part (for the novice chef) is the frosting. Don't be put off if it looks like a powdery, lumpy mess at first -- it takes some time to look reasonably like frosting (don't get antsy and add more milk right off -- but you can dribble a bit more if you really need to...)

Of course, you can always just buy a can of ready made -- just don't neglect the marshmallow creme!

Good Luck!

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5. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
M'kay, but I don't have a mixer. How hard is this to make by shear brute force?

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6. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
M'kay, but I don't have a mixer. How hard is this to make by shear brute force?

That may be a challenge, especially beating the eggs into the sugar -- unless you have an old hand cranker you're probably outta luck.

yes, I actually used the phrase "hand cranker"

So what other culinary apparatus are you lacking?


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12. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
unless you have an old hand cranker

*squint* Have you been talking to my husband?

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7. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Oh wow. This looks great, Mole! I haven't tried it yet; I'm saving it for my Tuesday night visit with my cousin. We often try new goodies.

Anyway, how much butter is in a stick? Do you think it would be OK if I left out the coconut? Neither Cousin nor I is a big coconut fan*.


Though I am a big Coconut fan.

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8. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
LAST EDITED ON 12-28-09 AT 10:21 PM (EST)

Googled this: (I knew it was 8 tablespoons, but didn't know the rest of the conversions)
1 stick of butter = 1/4 pound
1 stick of butter = 1/2 cup
1 stick of butter = 8 tablespoons
1 stick of butter = 4 ounces
1 stick of butter = 113 grams

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9. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Thanks arkie!

I thought it might be 1/2 a cup, but wasn't exactly certain.


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I think about 500 calories jumped me as I read this. It sounds absolutely wonderful, but I am going to have to save it for a special event.


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11. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
This looks really good. Very decadent. It also looks very sweet.

I'm currently trying to decide between making this or a cheesecake for NYE.



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13. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
so I combined this with something else I saw, so hopefully the lower fat of the one will counterbalance out some of the fat from this.

Took a devil's food cake box mix and combined it with a can of pumpkin. no water, eggs or oil. It does make a dense moist cake and well it's healthy now, right? It is a serving of veggies and fiber. I added the coconut and pecans to that.

Rest of it was done the same, but no nuts in the frosting.

Turned out really good.

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15. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
What size can of pumpkin did you use?

I'm always intrigued by these recipes where you combine cake mix with one other thing (like the pumpkin, or the diet 7-up recipe) but I've never tried it.

Does it taste. . . pumpkiney?

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17. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
The pumpkin flavor is drowned out by the chocolate so I can't really taste the pumpkin.

I used the 16 ounce can. At first it almost looked like not enough but it worked. The cake mix was a little thick, so I might add a bit of water or a bit of diet coke next time to make the batter pour.

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14. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Rob would love this, he's a marshmallow fluff freak. I'm not showing this until we've gotten our diet back on track. Maybe some individual little ones after a while.
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16. "RE: OTCC - Mississippi Mud Cake"
Same here. In February I am going to make this as a "treat." I'm thinking I'll allow myself to make a batch of cookies/cake/etc. at the start of each month, and do it full fat version. I love to bake, but get tired of the low cal/fat versions. It's not as satisfying to make those.


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Made this last night. My cousin and I weren't sure the Fluff added anything, but the cake was nice and moist. I may cut the sugar next time, though. And maybe add some peanut butter frosting instead of marshmallow fluff...or in addition to it...hmmm.


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Oooh, that sounds dangerous.

I'm looking forward to making this in a few weeks.


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20. "Pictures"
I made this last night-it was pretty quick and easy. I had forgotten that Mississippi Mud Cake wasn't a "traditional" tall and fluffy cake, and was almost more like a raised bar.

I cut a piece and shared some bites with Nolay this morning. It was very good and moist. Changes I made: I realized I didn't have any cocoa powder, so I cut the butter and substituted with unsweetened baking squares. I also didn't add nuts to the frosting. Nolay only marginally likes pecans in things and will barely tolerate coconut.

I agree with Seanna, it's very, very sweet and wonder if one could successfully cut 1/2 c. sugar out.

This would be great to bring to a potluck. Cut the pieces small! And don't have this for dessert after making one of the cream heavy recipes on OTCC.

Thanks, moley!


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21. "Better late than never!!!!!!"

I am making this for a potluck party we are invited to tonight.

We have some serious chocoholic/sweet tooths, so I am sure this will go over very well.


And yeah me! -- I have really bad luck with cakes, but I am getting over my cake anxiety and will make this recipe for the first time for the party tonight. No pressure, Moley!~

Pad Thai coming up soon, then just have to find a butcher since our safeway doesn't carry beef ribs and I will be all caught up.

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22. "RE: Better late than never!!!!!!"
Absolutely Heavenly. It was a big hit at the party. I hope you can forgive me, but littlest DD insisted it needed sprinkles. I'll be back to post a picture soon -- our camera seems to have walked off. Thanks Moley!
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23. "RE: Better late than never!!!!!!"
I agree with DD, I think everything is better with sprinkles.


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24. "RE: Better late than never!!!!!!"

And in honor of Mr. Molaholic's profession

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, I really liked this recipe and I learned alot.

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It was really good. Really, really good. We all loved the texture and the coconut. I didn't add nuts because of allergy concerns, so I threw in a handful of chocolate chips instead. And like I posted before, my daughter insisted that it needed sprinkles (I thought the confetti variety would be better, bcause the smaller kind would give a crunchiness that would detract from the luxuriousness).

I couldn't quite do the swirly marshmallow/chocolate icing thing, but it turned out really well keeping the layers separate.

Next time I make it for potluck, I will make it in a disposable aluminum pan. I made it in my pampered chef stoneware (and it turned out wonderfully!) but I had to transfer it because I was concerned that the stoneware would keep the cake too warm and continue to bake it and that if we had to leave early, it would be hard to get my pan back.

Other things I learned while making this
1. 1 TBSP of cocoa only has 20 Calories and 10% of your daily recommended allowance of iron. So this dessert is very, very healthy!
2. margarine, water and paper fibers from a Dr. Suess book are very effective at plugging the bathroom sink.
3. in an older house with wooden cabinetry, when said cabinetry gets flooded with water, the drawers can swell so much that they become impossible to open.
4. cantalopes don't bounce no matter how many times you try
5. an 11 year old can't be trusted to keep her brother out of trouble for 15 minutes if there are any Mediator books around.

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