Tuesday October 7, 2008

 

 

Chocolate Cake & Comedy

 

 After church on Sunday morning, the girls made Chocolate Mug Cake for dessert. 

 

 

Thanks for the recipe Cordy, it was delicious.  The chocolate chips made it especially good.  Gloria is missing because she is too young to go to the evening program for which we have tickets.  She went home with her parents following Sunday school and church.

 

Chocolate Mug Cake

1 Coffee mug – Make sure it is microwaveable and fairly large.
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips – Optional, but they add moisture.
A splash of vanilla extract

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.

The cake will rise over the top of the mug (the reason you need a fairly large mug) but don’t worry!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

Serves one or two

 

 Sunday Evening Laughter

We left the Memorial Service just before the conclusion, to pick up our grandson, Josh, then drove to Petra Christian Fellowship near New Holland.

 

 

Josh

 

 

We arrived at Petra about an hour and a quarter before the program began, and found good seats – about six rows from the front.  The first five rows were reserved. 

Talk about extremes.  We went from a memorial service to A Night of Comedy.

 

 

Just before the program began, I noticed that ushers were looking for fill-ins for the front rows, so told an usher that we had three granddaughters who would enjoy sitting up front if he needed someone to move forward.  This was a DVD taping – the reason it was good for front row seats to be filled. 

“Ask and you shall receive!”  They were given seats in the front row.

We could not take photos after the program started, so I will use photos from one of the  evening’s ads.

 

 

Tim Lovelace was first on the program.  He does a great job of mixing silly songs with great stories.

 

 

Ryan is a talented ventriloquist, who brings lots of laughter by telling stories with his main dummy, Jeffrey.  Grandpa and Grandma are a smaller part of his program.

I am encouraged that Ryan includes a clear gospel message in his presentations.  Most impressive is his analogy and demonstration of how empty and motionless Jeffrey is without the help of a human hand – comparing it to our helplessness without the hand of God. 

 

 

 Aaron Wilburn is another great, Christian comedian who brings lots of laughter with his humorous stories. 

 

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The grand finale brought the house down when Ryan used Aaron, Tim, and a lady from the audience as human dummies.  He gave Tim a lady’s voice; the lady was given a deep, man’s voice; and Aaron was a baby who mostly cried. 

I’ve seen Ryan do this several times, but this finale was the best ever!