Mississippi Mud Bars

Smooth chocolately moist bar topped with roasted marshmallows, toasted pecans and chocolate sauce…

Who wants to make their butt bigger??

I DO!! I DO!!

I finally got the camera back.. only after a month of nagging and complaining… I wonder if I nagged about the kitchen sink like that it would happen too..

Nagging takes energy.. after the first round of would you? Could you? Why didn’t you? It is so much easier to do it myself..or let it go and pretend it isn’t broken or missing or about to fall off the roof…

But back to back fat makers…

It doesn’t take a lot to make these.. just a little time

 Here we have …

Cocoa, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla, powdered sugar, mini marshmallows and pecans.. flour was forgotten.. like the diet I was going to start this week.

Mix your sugar, butter and vanilla  Add eggs one at a time

Until all are incorporated

In med size bowl add your flour, cocoa and salt

Add to buttereggvanillasugar mixture and beat well..

In a 9x13 pan line with foil that you butter or spray well.. don’t forget the sides like I did so your marshmallows don’t stick

Spread batter into pan and bake for 30 mins @ 350

Forget to take a picture before you put pan back in oven with your marshmallows on top..

Just give me a spoon and I will take it from here… let it bake for about 3 to 5 mins.. you want your marshmallows to be puffed up

Add your toasted pecans ( lazy? why yes I am!! I just haphazardly chopped the pecans if you’re a perfectionist with those things have at it.. and then I will hand you all my kids and see if you continue to make everything perfect) somewhere there is a picture of the pecans on the marshmallows.. but I just blame everything on the formentioned kids and carry on.

Now lets make the chocolate sauce..  powdered sugar and salt

Melt butter

Add cocoa and milk

Bring to a boil and then add to powdered sugar

Beat on high speed and then drizzle over pecans

Shove in fridge for a few hours so it can set up then cut into bars and try not to eat them all in one sitting..

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Recipe:

Mississippi Mud Bars

Brownie:

1 1/2 cups All-purpose Flour

4 Tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 teaspoons Salt

1 cup Butter

1 1/2 cup White Sugar

1 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract

4 Large Eggs



Toppings:

4 cup Mini Marshmallows

1 1/2 cup Chopped And Toasted Pecans

Glaze:

2 cup Confectioner's Sugar

⅛ teaspoon Salt

4 Tablespoon Butter

2 Tablespoon Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

¼ cup Milk

¼ teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 13x9  baking pan with  foil.  spray it with cooking spray.
In medium bowl, combine flour,cocoa powder, and salt. Set aside.
In large mixing bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Add the eggs one at a time. Stir dry ingredients into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan and spread evenly. Bake in preheated oven for 25-30 minutes.
When brownie layer is done baking, Sprinkle the brownies with marshmallows. Return to oven to bake for 3 more minutes, or until the marshmallows puff. Remove from oven and sprinkle puffed marshmallows with toasted pecans.
To make frosting, combine confectioners sugar and salt. In small saucepan,  butter over medium heat. When butter is melted, add the cocoa powder and milk and heat until the mixture begins to boil. Pour this mixture into confectioners sugar/salt mixture and beat on high speed with an electric mixer until smooth and glossy. If frosting is not pourable at this point, add  2 Tablespoons of milk, then pour evenly over puffed marshmallows and pecans.
Let cool completely in refrigerator for 1-2 hours. Cut into squares and enjoy!

Peering out from under this rock...

When I was younger I read a book about a boy who yawned with out covering his mouth and swallowed a fly.. he kept swallowing people and things in order to get rid of the fly he had swallowed… he swelled up to the size of a house… the moral of the story was if he just covered his mouth he wouldn’t have a fly in his belly… I thought of that story this morning when I woke up.. I must have left open the fly door because there is about 50 million flies in my house today..  as I walk through my kitchen I remind my self not to have my mouth hanging open.. once I find my flyswatter that was used for a weapon yesterday by Gabriel I should have some fun..  That and fly tape.. I thought for a second ( or two) that I could open the fly tape and just swing it around my head like a lasso and get several hundred that way…  then I remembered the time as a young child of getting one of those wrapped in my hair..  I still shudder thinking how I had sticky strands of hair with dead flies stuck in it… and a fly tape with several stands of my hair stuck to it.  I am sure when Mama went to brush my hair after that there was a conversation of WHAT? How in the WORLD did you do THIS??

There was a lot of those conversations growing up..

Being the youngest and with no one to play with I had a lot of time escaping chores to play.. And fly tape is pretty inviting until you get all tangled up in it.

That and Choke chains..  My ears still hurting thinking of Mama trying to get the collar off my neck..

After she calmed herself down from laughing.

I haven’t been in the mood to blog lately.. everything that I was inspired to blog about wasn’t Kosher nor what people would want to read..   Was sick for several weeks.. then the reason why I was sick was confirmed by a pregnancy test…  which God had different plans for the Baby and I lost it.. well I didn’t lose it I know where it is now.. just not with me. And who wants to read about depressing miscarriage stories?

One of the ways I deal with grief and loss is to cook..  to deal with anger I clean, to deal with depression I sit on my butt..

Something about cooking helps.. since I am such a control freak and when things get out of hand and I am unable to “control” them I turn to the one thing I can control.. bread, cookies, cakes, and dinner. I can make the cookies bake and turn out  how I want them.. If I could figure out how to put life on the stove I am pretty sure I could then control it.  

I haven’t been blogging about food because I lost custody of the camera..  I plan on nagging about it later today so I can get it back and then start taking pictures again of me burning something.

I should probably get angry about something today ( not hard since I am my Papa’s daughter) and get this house cleaned..