Robb + Jessie Married & in the Badger State
There’s a hole in the middle of it!
After a lovely day spent in the snow and relaxing watching a great film, I made this cake. It is simply delicious. Quite moist and flavourful. As I am not much of a fan of super-sweet desserts, this cake does the trick. Plenty of applesauce and spices create a homey and winter-y treat.
Applesauce Spice Cake
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Ingredients:
2 cups cake flour
1 cup ground oats
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 tsp. nutmeg
3/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
3 whole eggs + 2 egg whites
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2-1/2 cup natural applesauce
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a bunt pan.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ground ginger.
- In a medium bolw, mix together the whole eggs and egg whites, mix in the sugar, vegetable oil, applesauce, and vanilla.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients and stir together until just mixed (don’t over mix).
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
It is decided:
We are going to France.
And I feel safe, so safe.
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, “Courage, dear heart,” and the voice, she felt sure was Aslan’s, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
In a few moments the darkness turned into a greyness ahead, and then, almost before they dared to begin hoping, they had shot out into the sunlight and were in the warm, blue world again.The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
Brilliant.
saturday ramblings
i want to apologize for not writing as much as i should. i really don’t have any excuse for sharing my thoughts and feelings so rarely. but i have been handwriting more often, which is a blessing in itself.some good news for today: mark driscoll, the teaching pastor at my church, has finally gotten a blog. a lot of people in the christian blog community have been wondering when he would get around to writing and joining the ranks of the other contemporary leaders on the web. the first few posts have been really good. one can already tell the site will focus a lot of it’s effort to studying and evaluating the emerging church. i feel that is a very good move on their part as the EC continues to grow and share the cultural stage. make sure to bookmark theresurgence.com as it continues to be developed into a fully working portal for good articles and information.
i’ve been pondering this post by dan kimball, pastor of vintage faith church down in santa cruz. it tells the story of dan meeting a young man wearing a rather offensive but “christian”-oriented t-shirt and his thoughts from the encounter. obviously, i feel that offensive t-shirts are not the best way to share the love of jesus with another person. i truly believe that each person would be much better off if only they knew jesus, the real jesus, but i have not personally known one person who came to christ from seeing a t-shirt or a hat or a bumper sticker or a movie. would jesus really have paraded around judea wearing a shirt saying “gays go to hell”? truthfully, it illustrates a larger problem within the church. we have become so disconnected with the culture around us, that the only interaction on a spiritual level occurs through provocative clothing slogans and witty church bulletin boards. if you get a chance to read the post, contemplate dan’s questions and think how you can better serve the culture around you:
- Who are non-Christians that right now you pray for by name on a regular basis?
- Who are non-Christians that you have been building friendships with and hanging out with socially? When is the last time you went to dinner, or a movie with a non-Christian?
- Do you even think about those outside the faith, or just your friends who are already Christians?
- How will others know that the guy on the plane is not a normal Christian, if we are spending our time all consumed with Christian-things and Christian community rather than also building relationships with those outside the faith?
