Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

Thursday
Jan242008

Chocolate Sheet Cake

exps17147_CW10224C31B.jpgThis is a yummy and easy crowd-pleasing dessert. It yields 16-20 pieces, so if my crowd were a real crowd, I’d double the recipe.

Cake 

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 1/4 cup baking cocoa
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  1. In a large bowl, combine the first four ingredients.
  2. In a small saucepan, bring butter, cocoa and water to a boil. Add to dry ingredients (step 1) and mix well.
  3. In a small bowl, beat eggs. Add buttermilk and vanilla; mix well. Stir into cocoa mixture.
  4. Pour into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan.
  5. Bake at 375F for 20-22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean.

 
Frosting

  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 1/4 cup baking cocoa
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 2 cups icing (or confectioner’s) sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  1. While cake is baking,  bring butter, cocoa and milk to a boil in a saucepan, stirring constantly.
  2. Remove pan from heat; add sugar and vanilla. Mix well.
  3. When cake is done, spread frosting over hot cake.
  4. Cool frosted cake on a wire rack. 
Recipe adapted from this recipe found in Taste of Home.
Thursday
Jan242008

Nag, Nag, Nag

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Don’t forget.

Recipe Round Up

and 

Pensieve’s Snackalicious Super Dishes

Together in one super-duper carnival of delicious food

Tomorrow, January 25

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And why are you running off already? I’m not through yet.

Tomorrow (January 25) is also the second to the last chance to have your weather post linked. Yep, next Tuesday will be our last weather post and then (mercifully!) January is done. You might want to be working on a weather post, too, or before you know it, your chance for 15 minutes of weather fame will be over and you’ll have missed it. And it’ll be no one’s fault but your own.

Thursday
Jan242008

What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?

Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant of works,[1] so as thereby they are neither justified [2] nor condemned;[3] yet, besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men, it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ for his fulfilling it, and enduring the curse thereof in their stead, and for their good;[4] and thereby to provoke them to more thankfulness,[5] and to express the same in their greater care to conform themselves thereunto as the rule of their obedience.[6]

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