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Mississippi Mud Cake

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Mississippi Mud Cake 3It didn’t take me long to learn how to spell Mississippi when we moved here.  Okay, I already knew how to spell it, but it took some time to stop me from reciting “M-I-crooked letter, crooked letter, I-crooked letter, crooked letter, I-humpback, humpback, I.”  And, I’m not talking about some silly rap song.  This is the way I was taught to spell Mississippi in elementary school.  How about you?

Anyhow, when I saw this recipe listed in my new Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible, I knew it had to be one of the first recipes I tried.  I’ve always heard of Mississippi Mud Cake (and Pie) but never experienced tasting one.  Plus, what a more fitting title?

Mississippi Mud Cake 4This is a great party or pot luck cake.  It doesn’t take much effort to throw together, and it serves a crowd, depending on the sizes of the serving slices.  You can serve it completely cooled to room temperature, or throw each slice into the microwave, like I do, for 15 seconds.  Paula suggests the completely cooled route, but I’m such a sucker for melt-in-your mouth warm chocolaty cake.

Mississippi Mud CakeOh, and to cut the pieces into circles as pictured, no fancy tools are needed. Just grab a round glass and dig away! 🙂

This week, you have seen three recipes from Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible and now I’m giving you the chance to win your own copy!  Smithfield is giving one of you the opportunity to dig into Paula’s book for free, so you can try out hundreds of other of her recipes for fabulous Southern cuisine.  She covers everything from Sweet Potato Balls, to Hot Pimiento Cheese Dip, to Southern Brown Rice, to Cheesy Mac, to The Real Deal Gumbo and a bunch of lickin’ your lips desserts!  She adds in some tips and illustrations to help give you visuals of some of the more difficult steps, too.

If you would like to win a copy of Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible, please leave a comment attached to this post telling me your favorite southern dish.  Only one entry per person, please, and open only to residents in the United States.  The contest will close on Sunday, February 26 at 9:00 PM EST.  The winner will be picked randomly and announced next week.  Good luck!

Full Disclosure:  This giveaway is sponsored by Smithfield, but the opinions expressed of Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible are my own.

Mississippi Mud Cake 2

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Mississippi Mud Cake
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
For the cake:
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder , sifted
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 8 Tablespoons butter , melted
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups mini marshmallows
For the glaze and topping:
  • 1 cup pecan halves
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup light corn syrup
  • 1/2 cup chopped semisweet chocolate
  • 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13- by 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
For the cake:
  1. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla. Using a rubber spatula, fold the milk mixture into the flour mixture just until combined. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and the cake is firm to the touch, 30 to 40 minutes.
  2. Remove the cake from the oven and evenly scatter the marshmallows over top. Return to the oven for 5 minutes to melt the marshmallows.
For the glaze:
  1. Reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Spread the pecans on a baking sheet and bake until fragrant, about 10 minutes. When cool enough to handle, coarsely chop the pecans.
  2. In a medium saucepan, combine the cream, corn syrup, and chocolate. Stir over medium-low heat until the chocolate is melted. Pour the chocolate mixture over the top of the cake. Top with the pecans and coconut. Let cool completely before serving. (Or, serve warm if you're so inclined...) 🙂
  3. Source: Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible

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  4. I am a sucker for Red Velvet – whether it be in cupcake, cake, or brownie form. This looks delicious, and I love your idea of using the glass!

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  11. I am so excited to try this recipe! It looks yummy! What a great idea of cutting it with a glass! I LOVE Paula Deen!!!!! I have been wanting this book for a while now and would love to win!!! My favorite southern dish would have to be collard greens with lots of pepper vinegar!!!!! Yummy!

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  21. For as long as I can remember, the holidays are linked with my Mamaw’s (southern-ese for Grandmother) cornbread stuffing. I’m from Arkansas and just the thought of this makes me drool. Sigh. She also makes a mean pecan pie!

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  22. My favorite southern dish is none other than a comfy mac n cheese!! Yum. I could have some for breakfast right now. lol

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    • I love a crawfish boil and especially the potatoes and other veggies that are cooked in it! Paula’s book looks like so much fun.

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  25. Oh My……..a ‘fresh from the Gulf’ Oyster Po-Boy! Of course I wouldn’t turn my nose up to a big chunk of this Mississippi Mud cake to chase that Po-Boy down with!

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  27. Fried catfish and hushpuppies…and gooey butter cake…and pimento cheese sandwiches…and cornbread dressing…too many favorites to name just one.

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  31. my favorite southern dish is some hot fresh fried chicken, with fried squash, mashed potatoes and gravy, yeast rolls and some sweet tea! And we can’t forget some caramel cake for dessert!

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  33. I haven’t really tried that much southern food. Just the green beans that some places make. but i did make a paula deen pound cake before and it was delish so that was my fav. 🙂

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  34. Hi! I was so happy to read your post. I too am from Mississippi and have lived there all my life. How we learned to spell MS in elementary school is soooo true. I was just telling my husband that a few days ago and he laughed at me. I am from Oxford, MS. Where are you from?

    My favorite southern dish is from a local restaruant called Ajax that serves the best country fried steak with fried okra and chicken and dumplings. It cannot get better than that!

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  37. Biscuits and gravy, stewed tomatoes, bacon, cheesy scrambled eggs. Home fries or hash browns. I love me a good old country breakfast.

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  43. Southern fried chicken for Sunday dinner is a favorite memory of mine. Haven’t had it for a long time. I need to remedy that 🙂

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    • I agree! It is hard to beat extra crispy fried chicken with honey and hot biscuits! A plate of fresh peas cooked with a slice of ham, turnip greens with chunks of turnips and ham hocks, fried pork chops with mashed sweet potatoes, hot water cornbread and lots of sweet tea. Dessert? Homemade ice cream on peach cobbler! A couple hours later, of course! LOL

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  47. That’s REALLY hard to narrow down, I’d have to say fresh, sweet cream corn in the middle of summer served with black eyed peas (cooked with salt pork) and cornbread (cooked with bacon grease). It’s good we had a short winter here in MS, I think I’ll be eating this earlier than usual this year!

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  49. Being from Michigan and my husband being from the South, I tried (for the first time!) melt in your mouth fried turkey this past Thanksgiving at his family reunion in Baton Rouge–fell in love with it!!!

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  50. My favorite southern dish is fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and creamed corn…cooked in bacon grease of course! Thanks for this giveaway. How cool!

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  51. My husband and I love almost any Southern dish but our fave has to be Red Beans and Rice…and he makes a killer version!

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  52. It’s hard choosing just one favorite southern dish…. but I think it would be my uncle’s mac & cheese. I know eeryone has a mac & cheese recipe, but this one is definitely very southern & very yummy 🙂

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  54. Red Velvet Cake!!!! Whatever form its in – cupcake, regular cake, cake ball – I just cannot pass it up! Thanks for the Giveaway and delicious looking recipe.

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  71. I am from MS as well & love Paula’s Mac & cheese that my sister makes along so some good ol’ fried chicken. would love to have this book for some good ol’ Sunday lunch get togethers after church.

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  72. I’m live far from the south, but have been there several times and 1 thing I notice is they FRY EVERYTHING. So my answer is anything. fried. j/k Fried chicken anyone? 😉

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  73. Ooooh that cake looks delish!

    My favorite southern dish is greens – collard, mustard, turnip..doesn’t matter which one – slow cooked with bacon and turnips in it and cornbread on the side.(can you say run-on sentence?) My Grannie made this all the time and I was the only grandkid who would eat “that green stuff”! I’ve tried to recreate her recipe and I’m getting close. I wish I had asked her and written down her recipes. I miss my Grannie!!!

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  74. I dunno – is keylime pie a southern food? I would love to win this book – I love Paula Deen’s cookin…..BUTTER – that is a southern food – I LOVE BUTTER!!!!

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  75. I absolutely adore Paula Dean!!! As far as favorite southern dishes….I have to say collards cooked with ham hocks…you absolutely cannot beat that! Even my 16 year old son loves collards and has since he was 5 years old!!! Love them!!!

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  76. I absolutely adore Paula Dean!!! She is the best! Favorite southern food. Why of course, collards cooked with ham hocks! There is nothing better!

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  79. hash browns… (being from jersey) we only get home fries, totally not the same…
    love me some hash browns…. yum……

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  81. I’m a Tennessee girl, and I can’t pick just one… But, I’m a fool for anything sweet, and being a native of Chattanooga, the land of the Coca Cola Bottling Co., I have to say Coca Cola Cake is very high on my list (as well as the list of all of my fourth graders who are the recipients of my baking endeavors).

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  86. I have to admit Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes w/ Gravy, and Wilted Lettuce have it for me. Unless you want to go sweets and then look out! 😉

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  88. I may be a northerner but I love Biscuits & Gravy and Country Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy. I learned a really good side from a wonderful Southern cook of fried green beans in a little bacon fat and some sugar topped with some bacon. Thanks for the chance to enter.

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  95. Red Velvet cake for sure but jalepeno corn pudding takes a close second. This cake looks fantastic though, I’m going to have to try it!

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  97. My favorite meal of all time is southern fried chicken, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, hot biscuits, and green beans flavored with bacon. I get this special meal for my birthday every year made by my momma! yummy:)

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  99. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hushpuppies…but in all honesty, I haven’t tried a lot of Southern foods! I would love to try more and this cake is maybe the first one that I’ll try!!!

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  106. Wow, this cake looks wonderful! I don’t really have a lot of experience with Southern food, but I love Paula Deen. If I had a chance to eat something Southern that she made, it’d have to be fried chicken.

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  107. Pecan Pie! And stiilll trying to perfect it after about 5 years…I think that’s why it’s my favorite. I have yet to get it exaclty right!

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  109. I looooove Banana Pudding! My recipe is a mixture of Paula Deen’s “Not you’re momma’s banana pudding” recipe and a few secrets of my own 😉

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  112. Being that I was born and raised in Mississippi I have to say its a tie for southern cornbread dressing and collard greens

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  113. I have learned to love okra. It is so good in soup, first time I had it was driving through the south on the way to Florida. It is an unknown vegetable in most cookbooks and a rarity to find fresh in my grocery store.

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  115. Oh my goodness that is the same way I learned to spell
    Miss-iss-ipp-i!
    My Aunt was raised in Mississippi and my Uncle was from Florida so when we would go to there home to visit you knew you would be eating something with a southern flair. 40 years later…
    The meal I remember when we visited them was Breakfast, grits with a fried egg on top.
    To this day I have not been able to get my kids to try it…even with a drop of maple syrup on top.
    Silly kids.

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  117. Well I’m a southern girl born, bred, and in my heart so to pick just one is impossible. I definitely love pecan pie, anything red velvet, and pretty much all sweets lol. I love proper southern fried potatoes. Greens with some apple cider vinegar. Oh I know! I don’t know if its considered southern but I love true Carolina style pulled pork bbq. And Brunswick stew. Oh boy I could go on for days lol

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  123. Biscuits and gravy! My dad used to make it with bacon fat…yummy! He died several years ago, and I just recently tried my hand at it…mine was good, but not as good as Dad’s!

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  125. Oh my gosh, what a choice. I guess it has to be a dessert for me – pecan pie! love it. As well as Mississippi pie also, I’ll surely be trying your rendition.

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  128. fried pickles!
    And I learned to spell Mississippi – M-I salt, salt, I salt, salt, I pepper, pepper, I! But I’ve heard your way too 🙂

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  137. When I was a little girl, every Saturday morning, my neighbor would fry bread dough in lard, and then we would dip it in fresh churned butter and syrup. I still think about those days…how am I still alive?!!

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  139. When I was a little girl, my neighbor would take part of the bread dough that was rising, fry it in lard, and then we dipped it in fresh churned butter mixed wit,h syrup. I ate that nearly every Saturday morning growing up…How am I still alive?!!

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  140. Hands down, any time, any where, I want pecan pie. When I was growing up, we had a pecan tree in the yard (Temple TX) and my dad would pick pecans and have my mom make pecan pie. That dessert is one of my favorites!!!

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  142. Since I live in Louisiana, my favorite Southern recipes are seafood recipes, Shrimp Creole, Crawfish Etouffe, Eggplant Casserole with Shrimp, etc., but my all time favorite is a shrimp stew that i adapted from a cookbook called LaBouche Creole.

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  143. That cake looks DELISH! I would have to say my favorite southern food would be fried chicken, collards, mac & cheese and red velvet cake.

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  148. So hard to pick just *one*, so I’m going with a trifecta of love: my mama’s fried chicken, her fried okra, and my grandmother’s pound cake! If we’re talkin’ snacks, be sure to include boiled peanuts! But please, don’t make me choose just one.

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  149. My favorite southern dish would have to be biscuits. Perhaps a simple choice, but biscuits aren’t always done right. However, when you get a perfect flaky biscuit, one that’s buttery and fluffy, it’s heavenly.

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  152. I live in south Mississippi, close to the state border with Louisiana, so my favorite southern recipe would HAVE to be seafood gumbo! I’m always beggin my stepdaddy to make it, haha

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  156. So many…hard to decide. But I would have to say Chicken & Rice, sliced tomoatoes, and zipper peas (seasoned with bacon drippings of course). And don’t forget the biscuits with butter.

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  158. I’m a GA girl and my Nanny’s dressing at Thanksgiving was one of my favorite things ever to eat. I’ve never been able to replicate it, but I sure do try every year!

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  173. I love Paula Deen’s twice baked potato casserole – yum! And I hope Alexa and Judah learn to share their trikes soon. 🙂
    Karen C

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  174. I love anything made with apples, pecan pie and make Missippi Mud Bars — love them! Too many yummy Southern recipes and food to name…

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  177. I would have to say fried oysters are my favorite southern food. We have them down here in East Texas and they are amazing!

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  181. Hello! my absolute favorite southern dish is gumbo. So far, my favorite gumbo is served at Blue Bayou at Disneyland – Still haven’t tried making my own yet!

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  182. Fried okra, homegrown tomatoes, buttermilk with cornbread, chess pie, caught it myself fried catfish….
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  183. My favorite southern dish I’ve had was at Lambert’s ten years ago. They made this side dish of macaroni noodles, stewed (I think) tomatoes and some sugar. It may not sound all that great, but it was totally addictive!

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  184. Nikki, your photos of this cake are just gorgeous. And I am so with you on the warm, gooey cake. Delish! I grew up with lots of Southern foods, so choosing just one is quite tough. I just can’t decide, it’s either got to be red velvet cake or fried okra. What a combination!

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  188. my favorite southern recipe is deep fried southern chicken w/ some chicken gravy on the side along with buttermilk biscuits and sweet tea 🙂

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  194. One of my favorite and most memorable southern foods is thin, crispy fried cornbread (I believe Paula calls then “hoecakes”) served with a healthy drizzle of molasses for dipping. My grandmother used to make it just about every Saturday when I was young (I’m 25 now), served with fatback and stewed potatoes (cooked with a respectable size spoonful of bacon grease….bacon grease makes EVERYTHING taste better!) Even my boyfriend who was born and raised in Malaysia loves the stuff!

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  200. I know this is “last minute”, Nikki, but my favorite southern dish has everything to do with corn: piping hot grits with butter and salt and pepper, cornbread the way I remember it from growing up in the south, moist and thick with that slight crunch, and corn on the cob, cooked just enough to be tender yet juicy and seasoned with a tad of butter and generous sprinkling of salt!

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  208. I love most all southern dishes but I believe my favorite is good old fashioned hot corn bread slathered with pure butter.

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  209. I love the recipe for Mississippi Mud Cake. It is awesome,I hope I am lucky enough to win Paula Deen’s book I am looking forward to try all of her dishes !

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  210. I have always lived in the South, but have traveled all over, and I’m always glad to get home to our GREAT Southern food, the best in the world, and our Paula Deen is Queen of Southern food. TOO many favorites, but cheese grits with jalapeños go with any meat or seafood, and you can change the cheese for variety (I like Fontina or Extra Sharp cheddar). Everybody loves it and I serve it often.

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