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Mississippi Mud Cake

October 30, 2020 By Gretchen 9 Comments

Hands down Mississippi Mud cake is my favorite chocolate cake of my entire lifetime.

I know I know, I say that about all my cakes, but no! Wait! Hear me out!

I acquired this recipe way back when I worked as a pastry chef for a catering company, oh I don’t know, circa 1997?

This recipe was already in play and was a great success.

Once I tried it, I knew why it was their signature cake and it was at every catering event in the entire Princeton New Jersey area.

Super rich, dense chocolate bundt cake that borders on brownie-like.

Mississippi Mud Cake

The deep chocolate is pronounced by the addition of coffee, and the whiskey takes this recipe to a level you have never experienced!

I know what some people are going to ask and that is, “can I leave out the whiskey? And the coffee?”

Well, yes, you can.

But don’t blame me if your experience with this cake is just “Eh”

I really recommend to follow the ingredients as listed, but I get it, some of you don’t do alcohol in any way shape or form.

So you can replace the whiskey with more coffee, and if you don’t do coffee either? Ay ay ay, just use water 🙁

Another question I know I’ll get is, “What can I use instead of bourbon?” Because let’s face it, not everyone has a bottle of Jameson laying around.

Rum, Kahlua or Frangelico are suitable substitutions here, but again I really recommend the whiskey.

Now as you can see I’ve decorated my finished cake with a sugar glaze in the colors of fall.

I’m still not sure, as I write this post if I am loving it.

It sort of got to me after a while.

It reminds me of the days in the bakery when I would spend hours decorating a wedding cake or special event cake and after half a day I couldn’t stand to look at it anymore.

Maybe (hopefully) I’ll feel differently tomorrow and love the look of this cake.

It’s definitely fall though, and actually once I put it on my old turkey platter with those whiskey truffles and spritz cookies, I started to like it a lot more.

I was wishing it was Thanksgiving tomorrow because well, my dessert platter is ready!

Mississippi Mud Cake

The sugar glaze is optional of course, as the original recipe actually used just ganache

Well anyway like the look or not, you are going to love the moistness of this cake and the fact that it can be stored at room temperature for at least 4 days is a plus in my book when it comes to holiday gatherings and parties where you don’t want to be worrying about your dessert, and refrigeration and all that jazz when you just want to enjoy your family and friends!

I do think this cake gets better after day 1 and it is best served room temperature, however I have stored it in the refrigerator for longer and I have to say I was not hating the cold texture of this cake!

It reminded me a a thick dense fudge brownie!

Ok enough of me gabbing about this cake, just make it!


5.0 from 2 reviews
Mississippi Mud Cake
 
Print
Prep time
20 mins
Bake time
35 mins
Total time
55 mins
 
Generously grease and lightly cocoa powder your 6 cup capacity non stick bundt pan and preheat the oven to 375° F
For the chocolate glaze combine 4 Tbs coconut oil witih 5 Tbs cocoa powder and 1½ Tbs agave, heat stirring constantly over a low heat

For the colored glaze: 2 cups of confectioners sugar with 2-3 Tablespoons of almond milk makes a very pourable glaze (just be sure the cake is 100% cooled before you do it) add color to your liking
Serves: 1 6 cup capacity bundt pan
Ingredients
  • Vegan Butter or Coconut Oil 8Tablespoons (113g)
  • Vegan Semi Sweet Chocolate 3ounces (85g)
  • Unsweetened Applesauce 2 Tablespoons
  • Light Brown Sugar ½ cup (105g)
  • Granulated Sugar ½ cup (100g)
  • Flax Meal 2 Tablespoons (16g)
  • Warm Water 5 Tablespoons (75ml)
  • Vanilla Extract 2 teaspoons (10ml)
  • Whiskey 2 Tablespoons (30ml)
  • Strong Brewed Coffee ½ cup (120ml)
  • *Or do what I did and use 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules and hot water
  • All Purpose Flour 1 cup + 1 Tablespoon (133g)
  • Natural Cocoa Powder 3 Tablespoons (30g)
  • Baking Soda ½ teaspoon
  • Baking Powder ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt ¼ teaspoon
Instructions
  1. Combine the flax meal with the warm water and let stand to thicken about 10 minutes
  2. Melt the vegan butter or coconut oil with the chocolate over a low heat stirring constantly
  3. Sift together half of the sugar(s) with the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder
  4. In a mixing bowl combine the other half of the sugar(s) with the flax paste, applesauce, vanilla extract, coffee and whiskey, mix well.
  5. Add the melted chocolate and butter and mix well.
  6. Add the sifted dry ingredients a heaping spoonful at a time while mixing on low until it is all incorporated
  7. Pour into the prepared bundt pan and bake in a preheated 375° F oven for 15 minutes then turn the oven temperature down to 350°F for another 20 minutes
  8. The cake will rise a lot and then fall slightly as it nears the end of bake time and when you insert a a toothpick into the center it will come out clean, you will know it's done
  9. Cool completely and then ice with sugar glaze as I mentioned in the above text.
Notes
Mud cake can be stored at room temperature for up to 5 days in an airtight container.

For longer storage refrigerate for up to 10 days wrapped well or freeze (un-iced) for up to 2 months
3.5.3226

UPDATE: I have to admit that I had a lot of disasters with this recipe.

First it wouldn’t come out of the pan because #1 Bundt pans are impossible and #2 I was lazy and didn’t make a batch of my Professional Bakery Pan Grease which ensures I will have a great release every time, and I used coconut oil spray instead. Dumb dumb dumb.

That was completely my fault and then on the second attempt my math was off and I had a major explosion in the oven.

So after cleaning the entire oven and a third attempt, I got it right.

But I always try to make my failures into successes and with my stupid stuck broken cake, the Whiskey Mud Ball was born!

A perfect way to fill up the center of my bundt cake and the presentation just went from ‘Wow!” to “WHOA!!!!”

Of course I’m hoping you won’t have a major fail like me, but that also means you won’t have any whiskey balls to fill up your center! LOL

Whisky Truffles

 

So if you want to make the bourbon balls anyway, here is the recipe!

Use any chocolate cake of your choice, or just make this Mississippi Mud Cake again

5.0 from 2 reviews
Whiskey Mud Balls
 
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Prep time
30 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
If you are not a fan of whiskey balls (LOL) or you want to make this kid friendly, just make traditional cake pops (stick optional) and use a half recipe of buttercream or vegan cream cheese icing instead
Serves: 3 dz Balls
Ingredients
  • 1 destroyed cake that didn't come out of the pan! 🙁
  • *I used mine which was from a 6-cup capacity bundt pan and about ¾ of it was salvageable
  • Whiskey or Rum 2-3 tablespoons or to taste
  • Vegan White Chocolate 8 ounces (226g)
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, break up the destroyed cake more than it already is!
  2. Add the alcohol while mixing to form a "dough" like consistency that is firm and scoop-able but not super liquid and falling apart. You may have to adjust the amount of alcohol you are adding to get a good consistency. Traditional rum balls are not wet, but dense like a fudge brownie
  3. Scoop them into balls and then roll the balls to form a nicer round shape.
  4. Dip them in melted Vegan White Chocolate
Notes
Whiskey balls can be stored at room temperature for up to 1 week
3.5.3226

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Kim

    October 26, 2017 at 3:06 am

    Hi. If I want to make this with eggs, how many would I need?

    Reply
    • Gretchen

      October 26, 2017 at 1:33 pm

      Hi Kim the original recipes are still at GretchensBakery.com

      Reply
      • Kim

        October 31, 2017 at 4:33 am

        Thanks so much! 🙂

        Reply
  2. Lucie

    December 5, 2017 at 1:15 am

    Hello Gretchen! Firstly I wanted to thank you for your amazing vegan recipes. I commented recently on YouTube and you were so kind to reply about me being in the same situation you were on the fence. I create bespoke Wedding Cakes and do veggie and vegan. I was veggie for 21 years before becoming vegan and now really don’t like using eggs and butter however haven’t got the vegan client base to change as I do equally have to provide a roof over my head. It’s a really confusing situation for me! My focus for 2018 is to experiment with new flavours and really push the vegan cakes and attend vegan fairs etc to gain more vegan customers.
    Anyway my best selling chocolate mud/fudge type cake I am struggling to veganize it. Every other chocolate cake recipe I seem to find is just a cocoa sponge and so this has given me a bit of hope and will try this recipe soon!! I hope I can someone how veganize my current cake but it’s proving hard with the amount of eggs! 🙁 I can easily change the butter to marg and it has sour cream in it too so thought maybe just swap for soya yogurt but the eggs is a bummer especially when needing to bake 12″ rounds!! Looking forward to seeing more of your vegan recipes and good luck xxxx

    Reply
    • Gretchen

      December 5, 2017 at 1:18 am

      Hi Lucie, yes I remember our conversation 🙂
      I think you will like this vegan mud cake, it is a direct spin off from my original recipe, it is very dense almost fudgy and the vegan version was almost identical!

      Reply
  3. Holly

    February 18, 2020 at 1:30 am

    Hi Gretchen,
    Love your website! I notice this recipe lists exactly the same quantities as your chocolate bundt cake for Valentine’s day but that cake calls for a 12 cup capacity pan and this one a six cup. Is this correct?
    Do you have any advice about turning this into a round layer cake? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Gretchen

      February 18, 2020 at 2:27 am

      Yikes thank you for catching that! It is a 6 cup recipe! You can definitely bake into cake layers, No matter what size pan you use, just fill pans half full (with parchment paper & pan grease) bake same temp 350F check at around 20 minutes to gauge how much longer

      Reply
  4. Holly

    February 22, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    For a birthday cake…I doubled the recipe and made a two layer cake. Frosted with your fudge icing and drizzled chocolate ganache on the top. Very sweet, moist and delish.Fiance claims it’s the best cake he’s ever tasted.
    Thanks so much for sharing your talent and expertise, Gretchen.

    Reply
  5. Helan

    January 6, 2021 at 7:44 am

    Thanks For Sharing this Amazing Recipe. My Family Loved It. I will be sharing this Recipe with my Friends. Hope They will like it.

    Reply

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