It was stiff so wet that Sean scooped up a handful of the dirt and molded it into a ball like a child's mud cake.

A dense mud cake is a red-white-and-chocolate delight.

Scratchers use metal wires to scrape mud cake off permeable zones to help obtain a solid cement column.

Also on the dessert list are chocolate mud cake and hot fudge ice cream sundae.

"I can see my grandma on the porch, and me as a little girl playing in the dirt with mud cakes."

She began to make mud cakes.

A dark dense mud cake and a creamy New York-style cheesecake took top honors.

If you must, the fudge-like mud cake and the equally rich flourless chocolate cake are the way to go.

"I guess the mud cake was good today, right?"

She'd found a mud-puddle and was happily playing in it, splashing around and making some sort of mud cakes.