Recipe for "miss-mud-cake"

NAME

     MISS-MUD-CAKE - Mississippi mud cake

INGREDIENTS (Makes 1 large-pan cake)

     250 ml    margarine
     50 g      cocoa
     400 g     sugar
     4         eggs, slightly beaten
     5 ml      vanilla
     150 g     flour
     0.5 ml    salt
     240 g     chopped peanuts
     100 g     miniature marshmallows

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 175 deg. C.
          (2)  Melt the margarine in a saucepan.
          (3)  Add the cocoa, and stir until blended.
          (4)  Remove the saucepan from the heat, add the  sugar,
               eggs, vanilla, and mix them all together.
          (5)  Combine the flour, salt, and the nuts in  a  bowl,
               and  stir  so  that  the  nuts are coated with the
               flour.  Add this gradually to the mixture  in  the
               saucepan.
          (6)  Spoon this into a greased 33x22x5 cm pan and  bake
               for 35-40 minutes in the preheated oven.
          (7)  Spread the marshmallows on the warm cake.

NOTES

     When the cake cools, you will notice  the  reasoning  behind
     its  name.  It  may  not  look like much, but it sure tastes
     great.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time: 10 minutes preparation, 40  minutes
     cooking.  Precision: measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Arun Welch
     Ohio State University, CIS Dept., Columbus, Ohio
     welch@osu-eddie.UUCP