Name: White Cake Supreme
Ingredients: 3/4 c Shortening; 1 1/2 c Sugar; 2 1/4 c Sifted cake flour; 3 tb Baking powder; 3/4 ts Salt; 1 c Milk; 1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract; 5 Egg whites

Excellence is, in fact, a relationship. There is only One is truly and perfectly excellent. He alone is the sum and definition of what excellence is and does. So the one who is excellence, in His grace, came to you when you were in a state of anything but excellence, and by grace offered you the promise of actually becoming a partaker of His divine nature. He then connects you to purposes and goals way higher, way grander and more glorious than you would every have sought for yourself... Your hope of ever being excellent in His eyes and doing what is excellent in His sight is found in your relationship to Him and in His grace that not only forgives and accepts but radically transforms. And He calls and empowers you to display His excellency and the excellency of His grace. It is only this excellency that has the power to free us from the false excellency of human pride and the mediocrity that results when we are okay with ourselves and our world just the way they are.

Paul David Tripp

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Cakes &, Frostings	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3/4	c	Shortening
1 1/2	c	Sugar
2 1/4	c	Sifted cake flour
3	tb	Baking powder
3/4	ts	Salt
1	c	Milk
1 1/2	ts	Vanilla extract
5		Egg whites

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an
electric mixer.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately
with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each
addition. Stir in vanilla.
Beat egg whites (at room temperature) until stiff peaks form. Gently fold
into batter.
Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans. Bake at 350°F
for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out
clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely
on wire racks. Frost as desired.
Yield: one 2-layer cake.
White Cupcakes: Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin pans, filling each cup
two-thirds full. Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes. Remove from pans, and let
cool on wire racks. Frost as desired.
Yield: 26 cupcakes.
Busted by Gail Shermeyer <4paws@netrax.net>
Recipe by: The Southern Living Cookbook, 1987, 8487-0709-5
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest by Gail Shermeyer <4paws@netrax.net> on Apr
13, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“The entire universe was created by Jesus and for Jesus”

The same Greek word can be translated “temptation” and “test.” They are a world apart and context determines which translation to use. Satan is the one who tempts us to sin. God is the one who tests us to righteousness. Satan wants to destroy us. He wants to weaken our faith. He wants us to spiritually fail. On the other hand, our Lord is forever testing us. His goal though tests, often in the form of trials, is to make us spiritually stronger, refine our character and increase our faith. Part of the test at times is overcoming the temptation. It is the Lord in His sovereignty who sends test. “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Mt. 4:1). However, it is during these tests that Satan finds His greatest opportunity to tempt us. So when the heat in life is turned up, will we trust God and walk by faith in His commandments or will we listen to the “father of lies” and sin? The prayer here is that the Lord will help us pursue righteous actions as we emerge from the test spiritually victorious.

Randy Smith