Recently I saw a recipe called Mississippi Mud Cake and I had to try it. Afterall, who wouldn’t like Mississippi Mud? But the “mud†is chocolate, and everybody likes chocolate, so I baked the cake. However, instead of baking a chocolate cake base from scratch, I used a mix – Betty Crocker’s Devils Food Cake. Betty knows how to make cakes, so I let her do the hard part.
About 4 minutes before Betty said the cake would be done, I dumped a package of Mini-Marshmallows on top, which proceeded to melt and brown a bit by the time I took the cake out. Let the cake cool completely, then add the chocolate frosting, which is also pretty easy.
Melt a stick of unsalted butter in a small saucepan then add 2 ½ C powdered sugar, 1/3 C milk, ¼ C cocoa powder, ¼ t salt, 2 t vanilla and stir thoroughly When it is well blended, simply drizzle the frosting over the cake and marshmallows, let it cool and then dig into some oooey, gooey and extremely yummy Mississippi Mud Cake.
Mississippi Mud Cake
Cake Mix
1 Box Devil’s Food Cake Mix (plus ½ C vegetable oil, 3 eggs and 1 C water or as directed)
Frosting
1 stick unsalted butter
1/3 c milk
1/4 C cocoa powder
2 t vanilla 1/4 t salt
2 1/2 C powdered sugar