Name: Ice-Cream Cakes
Ingredients: 6 Canned pear or peach halves; then spoon on Melba Sauce (page 93).

The invisibility of God is a great problem. It was already a problem to God’s people in Old Testament days. Their pagan neighbors would taunt them, saying, “Where Is now your God?” Their gods were visible and tangible, but Israel’s God was neither. Today in our scientific culture young people are taught not to believe in anything which is not open to empirical investigation. How then has God solved the problem of His own invisibility? The first answer is of course “in Christ.” Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. John 1:18: “No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son has made him known.” “That’s wonderful,” people say, “but it was 2,000 years ago. Is there no way by which the invisible God makes Himself visible today?” There is. We return to 1 John 4:12: “No one has ever seen God.” It is precisely the same introductory statement. But instead of continuing with reference to the Son of God, it continues: “If we love one another, God dwells in us.” In other words, the invisible God, who once made Himself visible in Christ, now makes Himself visible in Christians, if we love one another. It is a breathtaking claim. The local church cannot evangelize, proclaiming the gospel of love, if it is not itself a community of love.

John Stott

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Desserts	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

Canned pear or peach halves; then spoon on Melba Sauce (page 93).

INSTRUCTIONS

LUXURO CAXE: Split spongecake layer into 2 layers. Spread bottom cake layer
with favorite ice cream; top with second cake layer. Sprinkle with fruit
sugar and salted pecans or almonds. Pass chocolate sauce.
MELBA CAKE: Spoon 1 pt. ice cream onto spongecake layer or square; top with
PARTY ICE-CREAM CAKE: Two days ahead: Press 1 qt. vanilla ice cream into
waxed-paper-lined 9" layer pan; freeze. Day ahead: Whip 1 cup heavy cream.
Split 1 9" plain-cake layer into 2 layers- place 1 layer on waxed paper-
place ice-cream layer on top; spread with 1/4 cup jelly, jam, or drained
canned crushed pineapple; top with second cake layer. Now work quickly:
Spread sides of cake with whipped cream; on top, spread thin layer jelly;
then decorate cake with whipped cream in pastry tube. Freeze till cream is
set- freezer-wrap; freeze. To serve, thaw in refrigerator about 1 hr.
CHOCOLATE RIPPLE: Spoon 1 pt. pistachio ice cream onto chocolate-cake
layer; drizzle chocolate sauce over ice cream.
SWEETHEART CAKE: In 2 waxed paper lined heart-shaped layer pans, bake cake
made from cake mix. Cool- remove from pans. Press 1 qt. raspberry sherbet
into same waxed-paper-lined pans; freeze. Unmold each sherbet layer onto
one cake layer; set one on top of other. Freeze-wrap; freeze. To serve,
thaw in refrigerator about 1 hr.- then frost sides with 1 pt. heavy cream,
whipped.

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