Making this cake did bring out my inner van Gogh. In all those swirls one might find Starry Night or The Scream. Mississippi Mud is a classic dessert that is supposed to mirror the mud of Mississippi. This is some fine looking mud. I do not care for the cloyingly sweet, thick, ultra gooey Missi Muds I have had in my past but I do go for that topping; marshmallowy, chocolatey good stuff. So I have lightened the load by simply baking a Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake and topping it with a super easy, super quick Mississippi Mud-type Frosting. This way you can eat a piece without feeling so sick.
Mississippi Mud Cake
One chocolate cake mix baked in a 9×13 inch baking pan
one jar Jet-puffed Marshmallow Cream
1 stick butter
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup toasted chopped pecans- optional
Top your favorite still hot-out-of-the-oven chocolate cake with Marshmallow Cream. Let sit a few minutes to melt then spread evenly over the entire cake. In a small sauce pan, melt butter and add semi-sweet chocolate chips, stir until smooth. Pour over marshmallow cream and swirl. If you want “rocks” in your mud swirl in pecans. Serves about 12.
Lunch Packing Tip
Before placing a piece of cake in plastic wrap or a small container, cut the bottom off the piece and place it over the frosting, turning your cake into a cake sandwich. All or most of the frosting will stay on the cake and not its wrapper. Will the cake sandwich be the new cupcake?
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Robin Sue
32 Comments
I love the lunch packing tip. This would be a great summer camp theme cake as it is so much like smores, but better!
Thanks for a fun and easy recipe! Looks like a keeper.
Also – what an ingenious way to keep the frosting from sticking – I'll use that idea on other cakes I bake.
Sis– The Scream isn't by van Gogh, it's by Edvard Munch, or alternatively, Howard Dean.
See you tonight!
Oh, heaven help me…. that looks so good.
The lunch packing tip is ingenius!!!
Rob- yeah I have a degree in nursing not art. Ha at least someone caught my blunder!!! See you tonight. I think I'll leave it and see if anyone else notices…
Ummm…I can do a cake sandwich!
Love the frosting, that's my favorite part!
Even if you didn't get all the credits right, you did get the concept!
I like Mississippi Mud Cake and even make it gluten free easily (he he, but true). But, I've never seen the icing made with marshmallow cream–yuuuuummmmmmm. And, I love the look.
I've read that lunch tip before and never remember to do it. Maybe this time it will stick … or not.
Thanks, Robin Sue!
Shirley
The layer of marshmallow cream looks amazing!
I am a total marshmallow fiend, I must try this! Great tip on packing too.
I bet you knew I would make an appearance after seeing this super cake, oh man I would love a slice!
Now that you mention it I do see that Starry Night connection. For sure, no one can ever have too many ways to present a chocolate cake!
Marshmallow in a jar, I haven't had those for a while…yummie…such a nice combination…looks so moist and yummie. Nice pictures!
You're a genius!
Coming off making brioche I swore anything that was fattening I could not touch. Now I am staring at your pictures drooling and comparing it to my sherbet. Unfortunately there is no comparison
Looks amazing!!!
If muds are like that I would always be playing with mud..
oh my sweet heavenly goodness. That oozing frosting is too much to handle. I'm saving this one!
cake sandwich, eh? i like it. of course i like it. i really like this frosting, too–marshmallow creme is entirely underrated.
van gogh looks good on ya, robin sue.
Yummo–yup, right up my alley. I didn't know you were a nurse….I'm currently making the first lifestyle magazine for nurses. Launch issue November 15, then three more in 2010.
This looks just like a Texas sheet cake a former co-worker would always bring in for pot luck – I never asked for the recipe, but now I don't have to!
Thanks!
I bet you're going to start a revolution, with the sandwich-cake.
Gorg! I immediately thought marshmallows when I saw that frosting!
I am craving chocolate now!! Looks so good!
YUM! I love mississippi mud, but you are right – it is very, very sweet. Your version looks delicious and easy. I will have to try it some time very soon!
oh youre killing me with this cake. Love your packing tip. Even if the cake is all messed up in a Tupperware box, I think I'd still be liking all the goodness lol