From Family Cookbook-Missippippi Mud Cake & Frosting

The family cookbook contains recipes, my Granny’s & Gramps used often and is the type of food I grew up on. Many with veggies and tomatoes from the garden. Good ole Southern food like my Gramps dumplings, to Grannies pecan pie.

This is a recipe my Granny cut out of the newspaper and it became a regular holiday dessert. I don’t know who to give credit for this most outstanding recipe.

What you need to make the cake

Four eggs

2 cups sugar

Two sticks of melted butter or margarine

1 1/2 cups sifted flour

1/3 cup cocoa

1 TSP vanilla

1 cup flaked coconut

1 cup pecans

1 small jar of marshmallow cream

How to make

Beat together eggs and sugar

In a separate bowl combine butter, flour, cocoa, vanilla, coconut, and sugar mixture

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes

Add marshmallow cream to hot cake

Frosting

1 stick melted butter

6 TBS milk

1/3 cup cocoa

1/3 TSP vanilla

1 cup pecans

1 box powdered sugar

Combine ingredients and frost the cake.

 This is a keeper! If I remember correctly this dessert can be made a day or two before mealtime. Use your gut.

 Melinda