Method in the Madness

Are you a sweets person? I love sweets and love to bake them. In my "Search for Everything" project, I plan to bake my way through a cook book - doesn't that sound fun and yum?? Anyway, I began to think of cooking as very similar to life and God's will. Hang with me on this one.

Think about your favorite dessert that you've ever made. Did it require raw eggs? Maybe some flour? Some cooking oil and a stick of butter? If I asked you to eat those things by themselves just the way they were required for the recipe, you would think I was crazy. Those ingredients by themselves are disgusting. However, when you put them together they make something delicious.

What if we began to think of God's plan that way? If we trusted the Lord and His ingredients. The lose of a job, a broken relationship, a disappointment, or even just a bad day are all awful things by themselves. When they are combined and God puts all the things He would have for us together, we get something beautiful. It may be tough sometimes to trust that all the yucky ingredients will make something wonderful, but if we trust in Him it will.

So, make time in the next few days to make something delicious. While you do it, laugh and smile knowing that you can trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5-6). He will make the awful ingredients blend together to make something beautiful. That beautiful thing will be your life.

I plan on baking a Buttercream Layered Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Icing!! What about you?

Ingredients:
LAYERED CAKE
6 eggs
150g golden caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
125g plain flour , sifted
3 tbsp unsalted butter , melted
2-3 tbsp raspberry or strawberry liqueur

STRAWBERRY BUTTERCREAM
125g unsalted butter , softened
500g icing sugar
4 strawberries , hulled and chopped
strawberries and red currants, to decorate Icing

Hope you have a lovely Thursday! Happy Baking and Much Love!!