Chocolate-covered Fruitcake Balls

Unbeknownst to the people of Moses’ day (it was a ‘mystery’), marriage was designed by God from the beginning to be a picture or parable of the relationship between Christ and the church. Back when God was planning what marriage would be like, He planned it for this great purpose: it would give a beautiful earthly picture of the relationship that would someday come about between Christ and His church. This was not known to people for many generations, and that is why Paul can call it a ‘mystery.’ But now in the New Testament age Paul reveals this mystery, and it is amazing. This means that when Paul wanted to tell the Ephesians about marriage, he did not just hunt around for a helpful analogy and suddenly think that “Christ and the church” might be a good teaching illustration. No, it was much more fundamental than that: Paul saw that when God designed the original marriage, He already had Christ and the church in mind. This is one of God’s great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever! (George Knight)

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits		December 19	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Crumbled fruitcake
7	oz	Fine-quality bittersweet
		chocolate cut into bits

INSTRUCTIONS

In a food processor grind the fruitcake until it forms a ball, scoop
up rounded teaspoons of it, and with dampened hands form them into
balls. Let the balls stand, uncovered, in a jelly-roll pan lined with
wax paper for 30 minutes. In a small metal bowl set in a saucepan of
barely simmering water melt the chocolate, stirring until it is
smooth, and remove the bowl from the pan. Balancing the fruitcake
balls, 1 at a time, on the tines of a fork, dip them into the
chocolate, letting the excess drip off, and transfer them to the wax
paper, reserving the remaining chocolate for another use. Chill the
balls for 30 minutes, or until the chocolate is hardened. The
fruitcake balls keep, covered and chilled, for 1 week.  Makes about 24
confections.  Gourmet December 1990  Converted by MC_Buster.  Converted
by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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