Mississippi Mud Bars

	1 cup butter or oleo
	1 ½ cups flour
	2 cups granulated sugar
	2 Tblsps Cocoa
	4 eggs
	1 Tsp. Vanilla
	1 cup chopped pecans Cream sugar and oleo mixing well Then add eggs, vanilla, flour, cocoa and pecans, mixing all these ingredients well Turn out into a greased jelly roll pan (12 x 9 x 2) Bake for 25 minutes at 350º Remove from oven and top with a small package of miniature pastel-colored marshmallows Then return to oven until the marshmallows start to melt Remove from oven and drizzle top of marshmallows with frosting as follows: FROSTING (To be prepared while bars are baking) 1 cup butter or oleo 1 Box Powdered Sugar 1 Tsp. Vanilla 2 Tblsps. Cocoa ¼ cup milk Mix these ingredients together and heat slightly Beat with wire whisk until of spreading consistency Then drizzle over top of marshmallows as soon as they come out of the oven, as stated above

Comment:   My daughter, Becky, won 1st Place on these in 1982 in the Tulsa County 4-H Pecan Food Contest at the Tulsa County Fair.

From The Kitchen Of:    Jean Roe  ~  Tyler Church of Christ, Tyler, TX