Mississippi Mud - by Bob

**Updated with recipe and pictures below.

Bob's food memory
I am going to gain from this more than I contribute. I don't seem to have records of any recipe's. Though I do have lots of food memories to share.
One of my all time favorite Grandma C recipe's is the Mississippi mud cake! It is like a combination of fudge brownie, chocolate cake, and smores. It has been years since I've had one of these, and I think it's time!
I wish I could remember the first time I tried this cake, because I am sure it was a special moment :) I always requested this cake for my birthday. I can remember a birthday party at the lake. Stace made me the cake and the whole family was there. After water skiing and swimming, the cake was a delicious treat!

Who has the recipe?

Updated by Stace.
Here is the recipe Bob (pictures are from the cake I made for Mom's birthday-- Happy Birthday Mom):
Gather your cake ingredients:
1/3 cup of cocoa
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp soda
2 cups sugar
1/tsp salt
2 sticks melted butter
4 beaten egges
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups of pecans (or other nuts)
large marshmallows (or marshmallow creme)

Mix together dry ingredients:

add butter, eggs, vanilla and pecans

(I left out the pecans because my nieces and nephews don't like them)

Mix well

pour into greased 9x12 and cook for 45 min at 300 degrees

When cake is done, add marshmallows to top of hot cake and melt in oven for a few minutes (or top with marshmallow creme -- I prefer the toasted marshmallows).
When marshmallows are soft, spread them across cake (like icing) and allow to cool. When cake is completely cool, ice with this fudge icing.

1 box powdered sugar (16 oz)
1/3 cup cocoa
1 stick melted oleo (or butter)
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
mix until creamy and add to cake

Enjoy!

Fig cake - by Momma Katie (Grandma (Mom) Collins)

Momma Katie memories: I remember as a kid thinking 'Fig cake - gross', but was pleasantly surprised when I tried it. I would slice a piece, put it in a toaster oven to warm and then add butter to it. As a young wife, I would make this cake, an apple cake and banana bread; slice them into individual pieces and freeze them. I would put a different one in your dad's lunch everyday.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sour milk (or 1/2 tsp vinegar to sweet milk)
1 tsp. soda (dissolved in the milk)
1 1/2 cup fig preserves (1 pint jar juice and all)
3 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamin
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup nuts (optional)

If you have sour milk, put the soda in cake mix. If not, mix milk, vinegar and soda before mixing cake so that it can rise.

Mix and bake at 350 degrees. Test several spots with a toothpick because the figs will make the toothpick come out gooey in places. Again, I don't seem to have the cooking time.

The fig preserves were picked at your Grandpa Werth's house and Mom Collins and I preserved them. The figs were still whole pieces and we would chop them up for the cake. I have found fig preserves like this at that barbeque place that is halfway between FW and BC.

posted by: Momma Katie

Homemade Waffles - by Stace

Momma Katie's waffle memory: This recipe started with my mom. I am not sure where she got it. I never remember not eating them, so she had to have used this recipe from the time I was very young. All that tried them loved them. I remember the smell of them cooking on her large square heavily used chrome waffle iron. She always melted the butter and heated the syrup to go on the waffles.

Stace's waffle memory: I remember mom making us homemade waffles for breakfast and sometimes dinner (a recipe passed down from her mother, that I now use every Saturday); she would stand above the waffle iron, passing out waffles to grabbing children below; we went back for seconds and thirds before she even sat down with her first. I always ate mine plain with butter—no syrup. They were that good.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
3 T sugar
3 t baking powder
1 t salt
4 T butter (melted)
2 eggs (separate yolks from whites)
1 ½ cups milk

Directions:

• Combine dry ingredients in large mixing bowl, sift together or mix thoroughly
• Add wet ingredients (butter, egg yolks and milk) and stir (batter will be lumpy)
• Beat egg whites until fluffy
• Fold into waffle mix right before pouring
• Pour about a ½ cup of mix onto waffle iron and cook
• Top waffles with just butter or load them up with peanut butter, syrup and bananas. Some of our kids like them with chocolate chips, strawberries and whipped cream.

posted by Stacey