Recipe and source notes

Mississippi Mud Cake

15 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter or margarine (2 sticks)
  • ½ cup cocoa
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt (omit if peanuts are salted)
  • 1½ cups chopped peanuts
  • 2 cups miniature marshmallows

Make it step by step

  1. In a large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add cocoa and stir until well blended. Remove from heat and add sugar, eggs and vanilla, mixing well.
  2. In a separate container. combine flour, salt and peanuts. Stir to coat peanuts. Add gradually (but quickly) to saucepan ingredients.
  3. Spoon batter into a greased 13" x 9" x 2" pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes (or until tester comes out clean). Spread marshmallows over warm cake.

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