Steadfast Faith in Christ: Trouble

Elder Freeman's latest offering:

"Everything is going great. It really has been a fun week. We work with so many people and they're all very different. It's like a kaleidoscope that keeps changing. There are plenty of friendly, open-minded people who recognize [as false]much of the misrepresentations of what we believe. Richard is one of these fine individuals whose mother or grandmother converted to the Church in her old age, and he seems frustrated when he hears ministers of other religions slinging mud. He said he wants to hear our side and he's great to talk to. (more)"

Recipe of the Week: Chocolate-covered Helping Hands Cake

Scott's Dutch Oven Delight

This looked like such a fabulous recipe, I determined as soon as I read it to post it as the next Recipe of the Week. Unfortunately, I forgot all about it in my customary addlepation. Be that as it may, this looks like such a fabulous recipe and a ready-made Family Home Evening or Family Day activity, that I just had to post it despite my earlier offering.

The provenance proceeds as follows: the dutch oven competition at our recent annual BFO (Big Family Outing), a camp-out at Fish Lake, became the topic of conversation on my family list. The consensus was that my sister-in-law won the competition hands-down in the particulars of scrumptiousness, participation, entertainment, and finger-licking goodness. More to the point, no other dish included the unbeatable combination of chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. It was, ultimately, my brother's recipe, and he posted to the list as follows:

• 2 chocolate fudge cake mixes
• 2 (20 oz.) cans cherry pie filling
• 2 (8 oz.) bricks cream cheese
• 6 eggs (just those required by the boxed mixes)
• 1 cup oil
• 3 cups water
• 6 Tabs sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla

1. Dump the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and 1 egg in a large zip lock bag, seal it, and invite every little kid in camp to help squish the contents together by hand. Watch closely, and stop as soon as somebody squeezes one time too many and a hole appears. Licking the mixture off their fingers is their bonus.
2. In another zip lock mix up the cake mixes, the rest of the eggs, oil, and water. Repeat the cooperative squishing/mixing process. Have a grownup make sure of the corners, as dry pockets can happen.
3. Pam a 14” pot.
4. Cut the corner of the bag of delicious brown chocolate go and squeeze it into the pot. More bonus finger licking ensues.
5. Spoon in glop’s of cherry pie filling.
6. Squeeze in randomly-placed golf-ball-sized glop’s of cream cheese. More finger licking.
7. 10 briquettes on the bottom and 16 on the top for 1 hour, or until a knife poked to the bottom comes out clean.
8. Serve warm with whipped cream.

As a variation, a dutch-oven non-devotee could perhaps use a 10x13" pan, reducing the ingredients by half, then bake at 350F for 45-50 minutes. However, I haven't yet had the opportunity to try this, so you may be required be fluid in your settings the first go-round.

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