Louisiana Chocolate Sheet Cake

Louisiana Chocolate Sheet Cake

(sometimes called Mississippi Mud Cake)

Step 1:

1/2 tsp. salt

2 cups sugar

2 cups plain flour

     Mix together and set aside.

Step 2:

1 cup water

4 T cocoa powder

2 sticks margarine (or butter)

     Mix together in a pot and bring to a boil.

Step 3:

2 eggs (beaten)

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 T white vinegar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking soda

     Mix together in order given and add (along with the boiled mixure) to the dry ingredients.  Mix well by hand and pour into a greased cookie sheet pan. 

     Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Step 4:

1 stick margarine (or butter)

4 T cocoa powder

6 T milk

     Bring to a boil and add:

1 lb. (1 box) powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla flavoring

1 cup chopped pecans

(optional - once you take the cake out of the oven, sprinkle it with small marshmallows before pouring the hot icing over it.  I don't add the marshmallows and it's just as good.)

From the kitchen of Juliette Gomilla Larpenter and Mary Jane Matthews Larpenter