Mississippi Mud Pie (B), Aka Muddy Mississippi Cake

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    9 inch Round Cake
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

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