What is a father?

We celebrate Father’s Day in Australia on the1st of September. First, Heavenly Father who is unseen, the creator of the universe. Whom live in the very middle of my heart. He is my constant companion, best friend, as well as my King. He designed me for close communication with Him. My richest duty as a child is devotion to Him.

The friendship Heavenly Father offer me is practical and down to earth, yet it’s soaked with Heavenly Glory. I depend on Him continually. I consciously live, move and have my being in Him, desiring that He live in me, and I in Him. Heavenly Father is a Powerful Healer. He heals broken bodies, broken minds, broken hearts, broken lives, and broken relationships with His very Presence. I can always go to Him for rest, helps and provisions. He has instructed me to Trust in Him – My Master.

He had given me an earth Father. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for your abundance Grace, Peace, Joy, and Blessings Richest always. My Earth Father is where I am connected to Heavenly Father by Love bonds that nothing can sever. This is one of the joys of true friendship. My father provided me with things that can be seen. He is both a loving discipline and encouraging supportive man in the image of Heavenly Father.

He is a breadwinner, a faithful man to Heavenly Father, wife, children, and grandchildren. He provided us everything: Love, education, physical strength, emotional empathy, and financial support until we can stand on our own feet. He always gives advice when he detected that we needed one or two. A good listener, slow to anger, always joyous to be with, whom we can touch, see, and relied for strong burden bearer: driving the grand kids home from school when he had retired and me wherever I needed to go, save me time, walking far and money. He loves to iron clothes. He mows the grass better than the hired mower man and free of charge without asking.

Also, he has become great at cooking KL Hokkien Noodles, and deep-fried chickens as I am afraid of cooking with oil. He is also a very generous man, godly man, and a blessing bonus to me: my strong tower of refuge in times of need as I had become invalid, unable to work. Lucky me, small size; he can carry me up and down the stairs, either wise I am in big trouble when I couldn’t walk. Now, I can walk so thankful to both fathers.

He is also a friend to talk, to argue, to irritate, to challenge, and I have bad thing; I cannot hide: my love for alcohols and foods, so dad is my drinking partner even though we both have gout we still drink occasionally. He is always delighted to see his children and grandchildren at every Friday dinner, which is our Happy Hours with my sisters and husbands drinking to the full until Corona Virus. The good thing I would say, stop us drinking too much!!! As no one to challenge or encourage to drink more….. No Happy Hours!!!

He is a devoted father and rejoices with singing to Heavenly Father: singing and playing his guitar to his lovely wife. So, on Father’s Day be thankful to Heavenly Father and Earth Father for all Grace, Peace, Joy, and Provision that we have. Happy Father’s Day to all father in the world whether you are celebrating it today!!!!! Here’s a cake for you, my father. Enjoy!!!!!

The cake is not too sweet, butter flavour that pairs well with white chocolates and berries. It’s moist, light texture, and delicious, with coffee, tea and dessert wine. Let’s bake!!!

Ingredients

White chocolate moulds

280 g white melting chocolates
1 1/2 Tsp olive oil

Cake

250 g butter, softened
1 c castor sugar
2 Tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
2 1/2 c self raising flour
300 ml sour cream

Decorations

1 strawberry
15 blueberries
2 leaves white chocolate, plus extra to serve
1 big flower chocolate
5 small flowers chocolate, plus extra to serve

Method

One day in advance

Place enough water in a pot on medium heat. Put a glass bowl that can sit on top without touching the water and cover the pot to prevent steam from escaping. Put white chocolate into bowl, stir from middle out until chocolate melted. Note: white chocolate can harden quickly, if it does put back on top of pot.

Set to cool slightly, spoon onto a jug easy to pour into the cartoon character moulds, using a teaspoon spoon a bit enough for flowers and butterflies’ mould. Then freeze it. I removed it after 30 minutes. Warm up chocolate and repeat spoon on to mould to make some more of the flowers. Then place all the chocolate in a container until needed in freezer.

The next day

Preheat oven to 160 degrees C. Grease and line 23 cm spring form pan and set aside. Beat butter, castor sugar and vanilla in mixing bowl on medium high speed until light and fluffy. Add egg one at a time, beating well each addition.

Add half the flour, stir to combined. Add half sour cream, stir to combined. Repeat with the remaining flour and sour cream, making sure it’s combined and has batter consistency. If not add some water about 1/2 c water. Once it looks like batter consistency, spoon onto prepared pan. Smooth the top of the batter. Gives a couple of knocks on bench top. Bake for 1 hour or until skewer out clean.

Switch off oven, leave cake in closed door oven for 35 minutes. Bring out from oven onto a rack, cool for 15 minutes. Flip out cake onto a plate. Just before serving about 10 minutes, bring out the chocolate moulds. Next decorate the cake with one strawberry followed by two leaves white chocolates. Then place blueberries all around in a circle on top of cake. In the centre place the big flower chocolates followed by two small flowers on each side of it and three small flower chocolates at the bottom. Serve with coffee, tea, dessert wine and some berries, and flower chocolates. Enjoy!!!

Note: if you want to keep chocolate for another cake keep it in airtight container in freezer. Best use before 1 month. You can get different mould from shop or buy online. You can use dark chocolate instead of white.

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