Being the oldest of seven children my family holidays are always filled with laughter, memories, and tables piled high with great food. One of the dessert highlights for Christmas is Mississippi Mud. I got the recipe from my hubby’s side of the family and now, no Christmas is complete without it. It’s a dense brownie like caked covered with a thin layer of marshmallows and topped with a thick layer of the most awesome chocolate icing know to humankind. It’s quick and easy and should be made the day before it’s served.
Wishing you Happy Holidays!
Beverly
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Cake
2 C sugar 1 ½ c. flour
1/3 c cocoa 1 c. margarine or butter
¼ t. salt 4 eggs
½ pkg. 10 oz. marshmallows – the little ones
1 c nuts – chopped
1 t. vanilla.
Icing
1 – 1 lb. box confectioners’ sugar 1/3 c. milk
1 t. vanilla 1/3 c. cocoa.
1 c. chopped nuts 1 c. margarine – melted
Cake – Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. Sift together flour, cocoa and salt. Add dry ingredients to butter, sugar and egg mixture. Mix well. Add nuts and vanilla.
Pour into 13×9 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 mins. Remove from oven and cover surface of still hot cake with one layer of marshmallows ( you won’t need the whole 10oz bag). Place cake back into the 350 degree oven and bake another 10 mins, or until the marshmallows melt and become lightly tanned in color.
Icing
Sift sugar and cocoa and mix with melted margarine. Add milk, vanilla. Mix well and add nuts. Spread over cooled cake. Cover and let sit overnight so that cake will firm up. Store left over pieces in fridge.
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Chocolate, marshmallows and nuts. How can you go wrong. I can’t wait to make this cake. Thanks for the recipe Beverly. My must have dish at Christmas is homemade scalloped potatoes. Thanks for the giveaway.
e.balinski(at)att(dot)net
This is not so much of a holiday dish as it it a cookie. I absolutely have to have Krumkake, eay to make but wouldn’t be Christmas without it!!
My kids would love that Mississippi Mud Cake!
Happy Holidays!
mnjcarter@charter.net
This has to be one of the best desserts ever.
Merry Christmas!!!
koonie2888 at yahoo dot com
I’m not much of a dessert fan, but I do have a few favorites, egg custard pie, pumpkin pie, strawberry shortcakes and banana pudding.
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Thanks for sharing the Mississipi Mud Cake recipe Beverly I think it needs to be my must have dish for Christmas!!!!!
Mmm! Delicious dessert and delicious cover! Thanks for both! Happy Holidays 🙂 Definitely going on my TBR list 🙂
southernlady2323@yahoo.com
I don’t have a must-have Christmas dish but cakes would rate pretty highly as a Christmas treat. I like mine with lots of nuts and icing 🙂
OK, I just felt my hips broaden by reading that recipe. Tough, I’m going to make it, anyway! LOL
I really must have M and M cookies. My mother makes a batch for me each holiday.
Thanks,
Tracey D
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Hey ladies. Mississippi Mud. Yum! I hope you and your family enjoy it as much as mine does. Nothing like it. Thanks for the comments and yes, Mud’s as wonderful as the cover of Night Hawk. Happy Holiday season.
That looks awesome! My Stepmom used to make Tomato Soup Cake which sounds awful but is a wonderful spice cake with cream cheese icing! Happy Holidays!
I have to have homemade fudge for Christmas, I don’t have it all year- but I splurge at Christmas! Yum!
KatieL
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That looks really delicious. I think I’m going to gain a ton of weight with all these recipes!!!
I had a recipe for this at one time but had lost it. Now I have it again.
I have made this before and it is delicious 🙂 Our traditional Christmas breakfast is homemade candy cane pastries with raspberry jelly and powdered sugar glaze.
smaccall AT comcast.net
Sounds great….don’t know if I’ll make it for Christmas but I’m definitely making this!
I don’t have a must have, but if I feel up to it I do have several that I like to make. Depends on how busy I am. This recipe sounds really good. Thanks for sharing it.
We don’t have any must have dishes. We just love to eat good food!!!
Ruth
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There are many things I love at this time of year and feel are must have but my favorite is probably a lemon ice box pie. Thanks. lisagk
Ours would be must have some type of cookie. I have to say your Mississippi Mud Cake looks and sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing.Happy Holidays!
Beverly I have one word–YUM…
Looks and sounds delicious.Thanks for the recipe. I definitely have to have two Italian cookies my Grandmother and Aunts make every year. Italian Knots and Cucidatti (hope I spelled it right) 🙂 They are to die for.They are worth the spread. In my hips. 🙂
Happy Holidays.
Carol L
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One cookie that is only made at christmas time is the stay up all night cookie. It’s a merangie chocolate chip cookie that is all sugar. Husband loves them!
My favorite Christmas cookie, is the Snowball, also known as the Mexican Wedding Cookie. It just doesn’t seem like Christmas without them.
drainbamaged.gyzmo at gmail.com
It’s not actually a dish but I always have sparkling cider.
jepebATverizonDOTnet
Thanks for the recipe, Beverly -the chocaholics in the family will be happy!
A must have at Christms is gingerbread cake with an intense ginger flavor.
I don’t know what’s yummier,the book cover or the Mississippi Mud pic 🙂
A must have is my cranberry cheesecake bars.
elaing8(at)netscape(dot)net
My husband always has to make pecan pies for Christmas.
I haven’t tried Mississippi Mud Cake, but I love Mississppi Mud Pie, so I’m going to have to try Mississppi Mud Cake =)
Thanks for sharing with us Beverly!!!
My must have Christmas dish are my mom’s enchilada’s… But after a meal like that I gonna need some dessert and I think that Mississippi Mud might do the trick:) Thanks for the giveaway & Happy Holidays!!!
yadkny@hotmail.com
My mom always makes Turtle Cake at Christmas. It is a chocolate cake with a layer of caramel and nuts in the middle. It is so good! Christmas is the only time she makes it.
Mmmmm!!! This is definitely droolworthy! Thanks for sharing, Beverly!
Well, I was going to make a cookies and cream pavlova meringue with chocolate ceam, chocolate pieces and chocolate sauce. Now, I may make this instead. YUM!! Love the cover of your book by the way
Hmmm a must have. I guess anything nice and warm since its so cold. I think my must have hot out of the oven muffins in the morning on christmas.
My husband was just drooling over my shoulder asking me when I’m going to make those!
mconnolley@yahoo.com
My guys like pineapple upside down cake. Not sure why but they do. We have it for breakfast.
Thank you Beverly for sharing and thank you everyone for stopping by!!
Congratulations to KatieL you won Beverly’s Christmas Anthology. I will be contacting you via email.
I love Mississippi mud pie & cake not sure which one I like the best. Growing up my mom made the best whiskey balls….as kids we thought we could get drunk off of them but we learned that would not happen. Sure wish I would have gotten her receipe
Oh yummy candies!!! Thanks for the contest