Name: Chocolate Banana Split Cake
Ingredients: 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour; 1/2 c Cocoa; 1/4 c Cornstarch; 1 ts Baking powder; 1/2 ts Baking soda; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 1/4 c Sugar; 1/2 c Water; 3 Egg whites; 1/2 c Light or dark corn syrup; 1 c Mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium); 6 Ripe; medium bananas, sliced; Chocolate sauce (recipe follows); Whipped topping (optional; recipe follows); 12 Maraschino cherries (optional)

God delights to give His children “every good…and every perfect gift” (Jas. 1:17), but if the physical blessings we desire were always and immediately given at our request, God would become nothing more than a big slot machine in the sky, and our prayers would become meaningless tokens mechanically fed into an apparatus as a means to achieve our whims with which we have no relationship. God would receive no glory, and we would pray our souls into a black hole. Whether God answers our prayers with a “no” or “not yet” or “yes,” His goal is to draw us closer to Himself in a relationship so that we might view Him as our ultimate reward.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Desserts	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	c	Cocoa
1/4	c	Cornstarch
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt
1 1/4	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Water
3		Egg whites
1/2	c	Light or dark corn syrup
1	c	Mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium)
6		Ripe; medium bananas, sliced
		Chocolate sauce (recipe follows)
		Whipped topping (optional; recipe follows)
12		Maraschino cherries (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 13x9x2-inch baking pan with vegetable
cooking spray. In large bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, cornstarch,
baking powder, baking soda and salt. In medium bowl, with wire whisk, stir
sugar and water. Add egg whites and corn syrup; beat with whisk until
blended. Gradually add liquid mixture to flour mixture, stirring with whisk
until smooth. Stir in mashed banana. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30
to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool
in pan on wire rack. Cut cake into 12 squares; slice each square in half
horizontally. Place sliced bananas between cake layers. Top each piece with
1 tablespoon Chocolate Sauce. Garnish with whipped topping and cherry, if
desired.
Makes 12 servings.
Recipe by: BestRecipes (April, 1993)
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #894 by "Eugene Johnston"
<ejohnston@mailexcite.com> on Nov 09, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“The biblical concept of love says no to acts of selfishness within marital and other human relationships. #R. C. Sproul”

In considering the conflict between the sovereignty of God in election and the human responsibility, J.I. Packer writes: What is an antinomy? The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines it as ';”a contradiction between conclusions which seem equally logical, reasonable or necessary.” For our purposes, however, this definition is not quite accurate; the opening words should read “an appearance of contradiction.” For the whole point of an antinomy – in theology, at any rate – is that it is not a real contradiction, though it looks like one. It is an apparent incompatibility between two apparent truths. An antinomy exists when a pair of principles stand side by side, seemingly irreconcilable, yet both undeniable.

J.I. Packer