Apple Coffeecake With Cinnamon

In one of his sermons, Spurgeon reminded his congregation about the doctrine of God’s electing some from the foundation of the world. But he noted that our task is to preach the gospel to every creature, not to find the elect. Spurgeon reportedly said that if God had painted a yellow strip down the back of each of the elect, he would run up and down the streets of London, lifting up shirttails, and preaching the gospel to the elect. But Spurgeon reminds us that God has not done so. Instead He has commanded us to “preach the gospel to every creature.” We must urgently appeal to everyone to come to Christ.

Jim Ehrhard

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Cakes, Cheesecakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	+ 2 Tbls. unsalted butter
		Softened
3/4	c	Sugar
1	t	Cinnamon
1		Egg
2	T	Sour cream
1	t	Vanilla
1	c	Flour
1/2	t	Baking powder
1/4	t	Baking soda
1/8	t	Salt
2		or 3 medium tart apples
		Jonathan Northern Spy or
		Granny Smith) peeled, thinly
		Sliced

INSTRUCTIONS

Put rack in center of oven & heat to 350. Butter 9" springform pan.
Mix 1/2 cup butter with 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, egg, sour
cream & vanilla with mixer or metal blade of food processor until
smooth & light. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda & salt & mix
just until combined. Transfer batter to pan.  Smooth out with  spatula.
Arrange apple slices, overlapping, in a circle around outer  edge,
filling in center with slices tucked attractively into place to  cover
batter. Dot with remaining butter. Combine remaining 1/4 cup  sugar &
1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Sprinkle over apples. Bake until well  browned &
wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, about 1  hour. Cool
in pan for 10 minutes. Use knife to loosen cake from sides  of pan &
remove sides of pan. Serve warm. Can be made a day ahead &
refrigerated once it is completely cooled, uncovered. Reheat,
uncovered, in 350 oven until barely warm, not hot, about 10 minutes.
File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmkah001.zip

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1173 Calories From Fat: 95 Total Fat: 10.7g Cholesterol: 198.5mg Sodium: 944mg Potassium: 257.5mg Carbohydrates: 249.7g Fiber: 4.8g Sugar: 151.5g Protein: 19.8g

It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.

James Denney