MISSISSIPPI MUD CAKE

Ingredients

2 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Butter or Oleo, Softened
4 Eggs
1-1/2 Cups Flour
1/3 Cup Cocoa
1-1/4 Tsp. Salt
3 Tsp. Vanilla
½ Cup Nuts, Chopped
1 Small Package Marshmallows
Icing:
1-1/2 Sticks Butter or Oleo, Melted
1/3 Cup Cocoa
1 Box Powdered Sugar; Sifted
½ Cup Evaporated Milk
1 Tsp. Vanilla
1/2 Cup Nuts

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.  Grease and flour a 9×13 cake pan. NOTE:  This cake is served from the pan it is baked in. 
  2. Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat until well mixed. 
  3. Sift flour, cocoa and salt, and add to cream mixture a little at a time.
  4. Add vanilla and mix. 
  5. Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
  6. Bake for 30 minutes.
  7. Remove cake from oven and immediately spread marshmallows over the top of cake.  Return to oven and melt marshmallows, approximately 10 minutes.
  8. Remove cake from oven and let cool prior to icing.  Make sure the cake is cooled so icing sets properly.

Icing:

  1. In a sauce pot, melt butter or oleo.  Sift sugar and cocoa together and add to sauce pot.   Next, add milk, vanilla and nuts.  Mix well and spread on cake.

RECIPE OF MY MOM, JEWEL – OCTOBER 1972