Mississippi Mud Cupcakes!

October 07, 2019

Mississippi Mud Cupcakes!

My Mother-n-law gave me a recipe years ago for Mississippi Mud Cake. Well over the top with richness that most everyone loves in a chocolatey cake. I made it when my kids were younger and of course they loved it, especially our middle son. So with a birthday coming up and for his son, I thought why not MMC!!

I decided cupcakes would be great without having to deal with cutting and serving since this delicious moist cake is messy. For those of you who have had this cake or have made it yourself you understand. Mom's original recipe I didn't have with me so I'll have to post that later, I will say it would have been one made in the 70's - I did find a lady on YouTube that reminded me of her and the recipe was very close to the original. Posted at bottom. So I needed to look up a good close for cupcakes which I found posted here however, I would have needed to double the recipe and with the ingredients used I changed my mind, lots of butter (one batch yes). The batter I decided on was one I posted before; the Perfectly Good Chocolate Cake from my Hershey cookbook. The recipe is that rich chocolate flavor you'd want and a very moist cake using buttermilk I had on hand, making a total of 32 muffins. I used the Marshmallow and Chocolate Icing recipe from the Spicy Southern Kitchen. For original cake recipe the Marshmallow Cream is exactly that using the cream or making your own melting marshmallows. For icing you are using the Marshmallow Cream added to powdered sugar etc. making an icing. It makes it more stable, isn't as messy still having the flavor as with the Mud Cake.

This recipe made 32 cupcakes baking at 350 for 20 minutes. For the Marshmallow Icing I could have made the recipe plus 1/2 more and will again when I make them next.

YouTube - Mississippi Mud Cake from Phyllis Stokes - though she added marshmallows because she likes them. Watching this made me think and miss Mom B.

I wanted to make a couple of cupcake stands I'd made in the past but was having a hard time finding the plates I wanted to use. I thought maybe out of wood since there is equipment we could use so I did some googling and found one that you can make to. Posted at bottom.