Hey ya’ll! This week I am sharing one of my favorite, easy ,go-to desserts when I am having company. It’s a chocolate buttermilk cake and its delicious and simple! Here’s what you need:
2 sticks of butter
4 (maybe 6) tablespoons of cocoa
1 cup of water
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 cups of sugar
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
3/4 cup of buttermilk
Preheat your oven to 350 and grease a 9×13 pan. Then in a sauce pot melt the butter and add in the cocoa powder. The recipe says 4 tablespoons but I do heaping tablespoons because I like chocolate. Then add in the cup of water and bring it to a boil. While that is heating up, put the flour, sugar, and baking soda in a mixing bowl and stir it together. Once the mixture boils, pour it into your dry ingredients and mix it well. Then add your eggs one at a time and mix after each one. Then add in the buttermilk. Once it’s all combined pour it into your dish and bake for 45-50 minutes.
When it comes out of the oven make your icing.
2 sticks of butter
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons of cocoa powder
4 tablespoons of buttermilk
Heat all that together over medium heat until its all combined. Then pour it over the warm cake and top with pecans and you have a delicious chocolate cake!
I have had a lot of good devotions this week. I am not sure if you guys are like me but some weeks I feel like I am reading and searching and nothing is coming to my spirit. Other weeks I feel like every time I sit down to read God reveals something to me about the text. This has been one of those types of weeks (which are my favorite). It was hard to decide what to share but I decided to go with the idea of excellence.
Currently we (my brother, sis-in-law, myself) are in a series with our middle school students on excellence. Next week is my turn to share and in preparation I went and read 1 Peter chapter 2. I think if you are reading this you should pause and go read that entire chapter and come back because there were so many good things I couldn’t possibly share them all in one blog post. But I do want to high light a few verses here starting with 1 Peter 2:12 “Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.”
I feel like that is super self explanatory but I just want to note that we, as Christians, should be different from everybody else. We should strive for excellence in everything we do and through doing that others will see our deeds and glorify God. And I think most of us do that relatively well when things are going well, but lets take a look at verses 20-24:
“But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness: by his wounds you have been healed.”
It is so powerful to be able to display humility and love and grace when you are being treated unjustly and unfairly. Often times we feel like we have a right to “clap back” at people who are mistreating us. However, the Bible is clear here that we are called to suffer without retaliation. (Don’t read this if you are in an abusive situation and think I am telling you to stay that is NOT at all what this is about). But if you are doing God’s will and living in a way that portrays the love of Christ you will receive opposition and often insults. But if you continue to live in excellence, those who are watching will hopefully see that the love of Christ can endure all things. Because our hope is not in the things of this world. Our hope is in the rewards we are storing up in Heaven. So run this race with excellence! In everything remember our reward is not earthly but eternal. Love you guys!
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