Cookie Butter Pound Cake
Getting a Return on Failures
Genesis 39:20-23
Do you love Biscoff cookies and cookie butter? What about a whole CAKE that tastes like cookie butter! Enjoy this rich, moist pound cake and a devotion on learning from our failures based on Genesis 39:20-23.
Cookie Butter Pound Cake
3 sticks softened butter
3 cups sugar
½ cup cookie butter
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
Cookie Butter Icing:
¼ cup softened butter
4 oz softened cream cheese
¼ cup cookie butter
1 ½ -2 cups powdered sugar
4 tbsp milk (adjust for consistency)
Directions:
Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt. With a stand mixer, cream the butter to a mayonnaise consistency. Slowly add the sugar and beat for 4-5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, then the cookie butter. Alternate the flour mixture with buttermilk and mix just until well blended.
Bake on 325 for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick or bamboo skewer comes out clean.
For the glaze, blend the butter, cream cheese, and cookie butter until smooth. Add the sugar and milk, adjusting for your taste and consistency.
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Devotional:
Genesis 39:20-23
“And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined; he remained there in prison. But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love; he gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer. The chief jailer committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison, and whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. The chief jailer paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.”
I don’t know about you but, do you like making mistakes? I really am one of those people that beats myself up when I make a mistake. I think about all the ways I could have made different decisions. Why did I make this choice? Why didn’t I take that advice? Why did I believe them? Why didn’t I see this coming? Why did I go along with this? I think about all of the different decisions I could have made or how I could have gone in a different direction.
Then I turn around and daydream about how my life would be if I had not made that decision. Life would have been so much better if this had never happened. And I look back and think about all the time that I can’t get back, and all of the things that I can’t undo.
I just recently heard a podcast with John Maxwell, and he talked about getting a return on failure. Sometimes we make the wrong choice, or sometimes we made the best decision at the time, but bad things happened to us anyway. When we are in those situations when things have gon wrong, we have the opportunity to get a return on our failures.
The way I see it, we have two choices. We can sit there and throw the biggest pity party because we made the wrong choice, or we can say…how can I learn from this. How can I take this bad situation, this undesirable circumstance that I don’t want to be in, and have the spiritual maturity to learn from it.
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