Name: Mississippi Mud Pie (B), Aka Muddy Mississippi Cake
Yield: Yield: one 9-inch Round Cake
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted; 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder; 6 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (60 to 70%), chopped; 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter; 16 ounces chocolate sandwich cookies such as Oreos (35 to 40 cookes), crushed; 4 large egg yolks; 2½ cups whole milk; ½ cup dark unsweetened cocoa powder (like Valrhona); ¼ cup cornstarch; 3 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (60 to 70%); Simple Whipped Cream; 3 tablespoons unsalted butter; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; ¼ cup strong coffee, at room temperature; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 cup sugar; ¾ cup sugar; 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract; 6 large eggs, separated, at room temperature

Preparation info

Yield:
one
9 inch Round Cake

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Baked Explorations

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

About

Though Mississippi mud pie was a staple of southern menus during my collegiate youth, there is no real indication that this dessert was created in Mississippi (or even the south). To further complicate matters, it seems that Mississippi mud pie (or cake) varies widely in interpretation and means many things to many people. If I had to identify the characteristics of a typical Mississippi mud, I’d say it is a very dense, very sweet chocolate cake. Fudgy comes to mind. It is also probably cov