Here’s the recipe from the simulcast.
Texas Sheet Cake
Grease a 9 x 13 sheet cake pan.
Sift:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
Bring to a boil:
2 sticks butter
1 cup water
4 tbsp. cocoa
Pour over dry mixture and mix in:
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
Bake at 400 degrees, 20-25 minutes.
Icing
Heat:
1 stick butter
4 tbsp. cocoa
6 tbsp. milk
Add anywhere from 1/2 to 1 box of powdered sugar to achieve desired consistency (Beth prefers close to 1 box) and 1 cup pecans. Spread on cake while it’s hot.
Thanks, I came home SO hungry!! Can't wait to "taste and see that the Lord is good!"
Robyn Wright
Attending the simulcast in Topeka, KS at Northland Christian Church
We LOVED Beth's message tonight at the simulcast! A perfect message for such a time as this!
Looking forward to experiencing what Jackson got so emotional over…Bibby's cccaakkee!
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Thanks for an awesome message tonight Beth and amazing music, Travis' team!! Can't wait for the morning!
Tonight was awesome!! You made me a tad homesick when you mentioned 105 degree temps in Houston. We are south of Atlanta and it's been too cold to swim for a week!!
Thank you for your recipe. I was raised on this cake!
o my…i think i just gained 5 lbs. while reading the recipe!
there goes my low carb/low sugar diet right out the window!!
i'll be making this when it's my turn to bring dessert for Bible study. 🙂 thanks for sharing the recipe. our hips & thighs will thank you, too!
Sounds like breakfast to me before another bit of Moore! 🙂
Yum!!! Thank you Beth! We'll be tasting a little bit of Texas this in Howard County, Maryland.
Enjoying the simulcast and definitely delighting in God's word!
For His Glory!
Grace Community Church
Fulton, MD
I'm imagining this cake is very similar to my Momma's. This Texas girl loves it!
Siesta Momma, I loved that chiastic structure on point #2! Thanks for teaching me that! Too fun! Looking forward to the morning. God is working! Glory to His Name!
I can't wait to make this cake tomorrow evening for my family and friends! The simulcast was fantastic – even torrential Houston area thunderstorms couldn't dampen our spirits.
Hey this is Pioneer Woman's sheet cake recipe…
this cake is pure bliss! the simulcast was incredible @ FBC in KY!! what a wonderful evening of worshiping and praising our Lord God!
A family fav — for sure!!
I'm currently on a "diet plan" that keeps track of numbers. Can't really use the name of the plan.
FYI: Each piece is the wonderful number of 6!! :-)!!!!!!
My husband made this cake for me for my birthday…DELICIOUS!!!
I needed that PURRRFECT word tonight. I pray my daughter will feel a huge relief from never being able to please me. Forgive me Lord, for trying to make up for my own failures through my precious (imperfect, but darling)child. Thank you, Sweet Beth. Praying for your annointing tomorrow. Loving you so.
I am attending the simulcast in Maryland Heights MO!! Beth, I LOVE Psalm 37 (Ps 37:4) has been my scripture that often was prayed over me.
Being a Houston person now living up here in St Louis area, I can so so connect with you cuz I know all about Houston and the HOT HOT HUMID weather!!!
I am planning on attending in June 2010 as you will be here with us all in St Louis area. God Bless you Beth and Bless your Family!!! All y'all totally Rock!!
God Bless you!!
Lynn
Just attended the simulcast in Saraland, AL – great, timely & purposeful. Thanks so much 7 Yay God!!
Oh, and we're all anxious to see how this Texas Sheet Cake stacks up to Mawmaw's Mississippi Mud Cake. :o)
Oh Ho! I saw the Simulcast at my church in Mechanicsburg, PA tonight! Eastern time so it was LIVE!
I love you Beth Moore! I did Breaking Free & A Woman's Heart workbooks.
We have been praying about this weekend and having meetings for weeks.
I prayed tonight that the women would feel BETH was speaking directly to them and that they would feel the Hand of God on their lives!
God bless you Beth! oH and thanks for the cake recipe. I can't wait to try it!
Beth, Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming to Green Bay, and for being obedient to God in your ministry. Every time I've heard you speak, it seems like the message has been prepared just for me, and I know that I'm not the only one who feels that way. We love you and the worship team so much, and are looking forward to a venti joy tomorrow morning.
Dear Friend,
I am so encouraged to hear how God is working in many around the country. Please pray for Clarksville, TN. The mood was one of spiritual deadness, some serious spiritual warfare going on. My heart is burdened, which causes me to consider the Father's heart and His hurt over our unfaithfulness.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your Kingdom work.
Thanks for the recipe sounds great! I was so moved tonight. God spoke to me….
I was with some ladies from our church…. and my daughter who just left for college a couple weeks ago (200 miles away) went to the Simulcast in Dothan, Ala. It was awesome to think that she was worshipping THERE and I was worshipping here…. I am so thankful for your ministry…
God is faithful!
blessings,
Teena
FBC~Hazlehurst, Ga.
Cant wait to try this recipe but mostly I cant wait to for tomorrow. The simulcast tonight was AWESOME. Watched it from Asbury Methodist in Madison, Al
Have to say I felt like God was right there speaking right to me through you Beth! Psalm 37 is a Psalm that I continue to go back to as my husband and I continue or struggle with infertility. Having another child is such a desire of my heart. It was just what I needed to hear tonight!! See you in the morning 🙂
~Jennifer
AWESOME! Beth speaks truth from God's word. Loved the simulcast tonight and look forward to Saturday morning at Gladeville Baptist Church, Gladeville, TN (host simulcast church). I can't wait to make the cake. I have a special occasion coming up in early September….our 5th grandchild.
AWESOME! Beth speaks truth straight from God's word. I enjoyed the simulcast tonight and look forward to Saturday morning at Gladeville Baptist Church, Gladeville, TN (host simulcast church). I also look forward to making this cake. I have a special occasion coming up…our 5th grandchild due in early September.
Where can I find the ABC's of scripture to memorize? I'd love to have it to memorize with my 2 daughters. Anyone know?
Thanks Beth for tonight. I let the tears roll for the first time in a long time tonight. They were such cleansing tears I let them go on down my cheeks, down my neck, and they literally reached my heart. I felt those tears softening my heart that has slowly become calloused over time.
Can't wait for tomorrow!
Thank you Beth for the amazing message tonight it touched my heart deeply I want so badly to be able to love God with all my heart and to know him more that is the desire of my heart.Thanks for the cake recipe I can't wait to make it right after the simulcast tomorrow. LOVE YA BETH
Beth tonight's event was amazing. Glory to God for the lives he will touch through your words this weekend. You have already touched me through your teaching tonight in many ways. My life has been an obstacle lately. I have not truly given my longings and desires to where they should be given. I have not given God the time. I have been impatient in many recent issues in my life and thanks tonight's scripture, I have new Perspective. I attended your event last year and helped on the team handling refreshments. This year I was more of a leader in helping coordinate the event at my church. Me and another woman of Faith worked diligently and planned and gathered a wonderful team and without the Spirit working in us the past six months I don't know if we would have had such a successful night tonight.
I am so looking forward to what tomorrow is going to bring. GOD HAS ROCKED MY WORLD TONIGHT!!!!!!! Thanks Girlfriend!!!
In our family of 5 this is the cake that is ALWAYS requested for birthdays. Yum Yum!!
Beth,
Not having a clue about what you were going to talk about, I gathered 11 sweet women of God and we made our way to your simulcast. And there you were…on Psalms 37:4. The same place the Lord has been bringing me back to for quite some time.
God's waiting room can be very uncomfortable, but it seems to be my current training ground.
Thanks for echoing with that Texas twang what He has been whispering to my heart.
Eternally His
Stephanie
Phil 3:7-14
God truely spoke through Beth tonight. Tonight, you said there there is one of us who is the one in 500,000 who's hope has been lost and has now pulled up a chair to the Throne. I lost my 13 year old to suicide 2 years ago. My faith has never been stronger, because it is what gets me though every day. But now what? I am praying for God to push past the emptiness and give me some kind of desire back in my heart.
Alright now Beth… you asked us to close our eyes and picture the desire of our heart..mine was a trim, healthy, "fabulous", body…..how am I ever gonna get there with temptations like this? I would seriously eat the WHOLE THING:):):)
Alright now Beth… you asked us to close our eyes and picture the desire of our heart,something that has stood the test of time..mine was a trim, healthy, "fabulous", body…..how am I ever gonna get there with temptations like this? I would seriously eat the WHOLE THING:):):)
I am so blessed to have been able to experience this tonight. I have been struggling with my measurements. You know what kind I mean…where I measure with God. Despite all that God speaks to me through the eyes of others, I never feel like I measure up.
Despite the fact that, for the first time in my life, I am sharing Christ with people I meet; or the fact that I have led our ladies Bible study 4 times over the last 2 months (not facilitated a structured study…actually compiled material and LED…something I never thought I could do); or being a general spiritual encouragement to others, I very often feel that I am not "measuring up" to who God wants me to be. Lately, it has been truly humbling to hear the ladies closest to me tell me things about me and what God is doing in my life. Mostly becuase I just don't see it. I only see what the enemy wants me to see. That despite all my "good" efforts, I'm bad. I disappoint God. I disobey his commands. I am not following His Word ENTIRELY.
I was in such a frantically lost place at last year's simulcast. I was clinging on to anything that could get me closer to God becuase I didn't know how to draw nearer to Him on my own.
Sitting there tonight, do you know what I realized? I'm still the same "sinner who doesn't measure up" and there are many things that I need to pray about and ask for His deliverance in, but, LOOK HOW FAR HE'S BROUGHT ME!! One year of walking with God is not a long time. It's practically a blink of an eye. But, the wonders He has worked in my life. The faith I have now compared to a year ago, even 6 months ago, EVEN 2 MONTHS AGO. Everyday He is growing me more and more.
So, I've decided…I will look especially forward to these simulcasts every year. No matter how far I have to drive to attend one. I have decided that this will be how I measure myself. Not by how perfect I am or am not. Not in comparison to another sister in Christ. I will each year measure the GREATNESS OF GOD AND WHAT HE HAS WORKED IN MY LIFE FOR HIS GLORY AND HIS PURPOSE!!!
Thank you Beth for all that you do, and for loving us enough to share your knowledge of our Father with us. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for blessing us all with the gift of Beth. I pray that each women (and man) who attends this weekend hears the specific message You have for them, through your beautiful servant Beth.
Thank you Jesus!
Just amazing!! ASll I can say.
I just got home from your Simulcast in Joplin, Missouri. i have to say that as a 24 year old I have been thru alot. Im a single mother of one, but I wouldnt change it for anything. I have been trying to teach my daughter about Jesus, even with little songs. At age two, shes running around singing to Jesus. im a proud mother and CHRISTIAN. Thank you for your beautiful messages. and im looking forward to hearing you in the morning 🙂
Samantha
If ya'll don't quit talking about Blue Bell ice cream, I might have to drive to Texas in the morning! (You DO know they don't make that anywhere else, and it isn't quite fair of ya'll to brag about it! 🙂 Guessing you are sound asleep by now, Siesta Mama, but we Colorado girls just got done out here, and what a night it was! God once again rocked MY world and the timeliness of your message and God's word just never ceases to amaze! How is it he senses our deepest longings so? The God who formed us DELIGHTS in us. Delights to be with us. Longs for us to delight to be with him. Laying out our longings tonight and knowing He will meet our every one with pleasure…in my present situation I so needed that rest tonight. Thank you, Beth, for challenging us to just LAUGH with delight in Him. Hey…"on ya, Siesta"! Good night!
I just came home from Friday night and can't wait for Saturday! I'm ready for a revolution!
I wonder if there might be a song list somewhere from the worship time. I am on our Worship Team here in Burbank CA and some of the songs were new to me. I'd love to introduce them to our team. TIA!
Thanks so much, Beth for doing this simulcast. Our church is getting ready to do the Psalms of Ascent, and I'm so pumped to get started.
BTW, I just might make the cake for our family gathering tomorrow…. Looks good!
This recipe is on the Pioneer Woman's website, along with pictures for each step. Except she calls it "The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake. Ever." If you read the comments you'll see suggested variations, like adding instant coffee to the batter. I actually made this cake last week for our small group and again today to use up some of the ingredients. I just have no other use for buttermilk!
Tonight was great. Can't wait for tomorrow.
I love this recipe. When I am craving chocolate I just make the frosting. It's basically fudge. Just a little hint for others with the chocolate craving!!
Dear Anonymous in that dark corner and jammies…you cling to Jesus, baby sister. HE is all you will EVER need and HE WILL MEET THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART.
He will help you love your parents. He loves them so much! Hold fast and have the Happiest of Birthdays! Your siestas are praying for you! See you tomorrow.
I just got home from the simulcast here in Bellingham Wa.
I loved it! It so spoke to me right where I needed to here it.
Can't wait till tomorrow!
Amazing night — and it would be even more so if I had a piece of this cake.
516 locations — praising together and getting a word together! Praise Him!
Eph 5:16 "making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."
I think this is an example of "making the most of every opportunity" Thank you!
Beth,
The cakes sounds beyond YUMMY! I'm SOOOOOOOOO not a baker…or a cook! Know of anyplace to purchase one of those? :o)
God has really touched my heart tonight…through you. Thank you for bringing this message of freedom thru Christ, to Green Bay!
I have to tell you that even here in the 'Frozen Tundra', God has been preparing hearts FOR MONTHS for the message he's given you for us!
I am on the edge of my seat to hear what God has to say through you tomorrow!
Thank you for ministering to us in a REAL & applicable way!
Cathi
Yummy! Thanks for sharing. I can hardly wait to make it for my family!
What a night, but it always is with you at the helm. Your words reach more than you know. And, thanks to you and Amanda for a wonderful recipe. The morning can't get here too soon. Love to you and your family. They are so blessed.
So Beth you just have to know i came right home and looked up your chocolate cake recipe…it's "Tinker Cake". I don't know where this name came from, but this is a cake my mother-in-law makes and let me just tell you it still makes my husband act like your 3 yr old grandson!!! Too funny.
Thanks for being used by God. Tonight was simply put…a blessing and just what i needed.
I praise God for bringing you "home" to Green Bay, Beth. I've wanted to attend one of your conferences for a long time, but I never dreamed God would get you four blocks from my parent's door! Then you go and select the verse that has most resonated with me over the years! Great message!!
But the biggest WHOOT goes up because my mother, who has been bed-ridden since her last bout with chemo a month ago, was able to WALK in and sit through the entire session tonight! Amazing!! (Thanks for praying for Shirley!…Pray she can continue to be strong, even healed!)
LORD, I am so delighted by you…amazed by you…blessed by you! I thank you for revealing to me the heart of my desires.
Thanks, Beth, for driving home our need to simply make eye-contact with our beloved Abba Father! Your connection to the Spirit of God is evident in all you do! You've inspired me deeply, exhorted me rightly, and blessed me greatly! Thank you! 🙂
Praying for you sweet supernatural slumber tonight!
This is almost the same recipe my grandmother used. Her's had no cinnamon and added pecans to the the icing. When I heard tonight that the recipe called for 3 sticks of butter I had to go home and compare notes.
My grandmother has gone to be the Lord. I think of her whenever make it. She was a dear, sweet lady with a servant's heart. She was also a Texan 🙂
Thanks for the message tonight, Beth! It was hard for me to hear. I'm in my mid-thirties and have been praying for a husband for so long that I'm to the point of thinking that it will never happen. I know I have my Father in heaven to love me, but it would be nice to have a man's hand to hold and someone to love. Not having a husband makes me feel so inadequate. This wish has been my heart's desire for 20 years now. Refering to what you said tonight, I wonder what glory or destiny my wait is for? It raises an interesting question…is hanging onto my desire mean I'm selfish?
Waiting to hear what the Father says through you tomorrow. Rock on, girl!!!
Thank you one & all for your time, talent,& tresure! I have been blessed, my newly save mother also. Your making a big hole in the time space continume. The cake will be the next family hit! JonJon
having just moved from my beloved homeland in the south to the land of "healthy living" in colorado, the amount of butter required in this recipe is music to my ears! so was your precious voice tonight, beth. thanks for being the best friend we've never met!!
Just want to be sure – is this a jelly roll pan or 9×13?