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 9x13 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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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. :D
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
this looks crazy easy. i think i'd use marshmallow fluff though.
I wouldnt mind if it was the new cupcake. Especially if it looked like this!
BTW- My party was a success. I was able to keep my cool and relax. Matter of fact I received a compliment that I was so easy going about having tons (well six) of people staying at my house and having a weekend long party (40 people). My ego just floated a little. Thanks party guru!
Pass me a mud sandwich please! Great idea.
Perhaps some inspiration from Jackson Pollock with all the swirls? It's a rich cake but an oh-so-satisfying cake.
Okay, truthfully? I'm not a chocolate cake eater but the frosting? I'm all about it!
~ingrid
Marshmallow Cream is a secret ingredient of mine... a weapon if you will... this cake looks terrific! I'll have to give it a try!
Just made it tonight. Thumbs way up!!! I'm already wondering if I could make the frosting with peanut butter chips.
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