Holy Spirit Cupcakes for Pentecost

Decorate cupcakes with red sprinkles and white chocolate doves for a simple and symbolic Pentecost dessert! I packed along these cupcakes to share at our Homeschool Family Camp last year.

Candy molds are easy to use and can be purchased inexpensively online. Other options include these Pentecost Cupcakes made with dove cupcake picks from the wedding section of the craft store and these beautiful Flaming Cupcakes for Pentecost! 

You can find additional recipes for Pentecost in the archives. Our family favorite has always been a Symbolic Birthday Cake for our beloved Church. I hope you all have a blessed Pentecost Sunday!

One loving spirit sets another on fire. 

~ St. Augustine

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Happy Pentecost!

Sharing a fun Holy Spirit fruit platter to make for Pentecost or even a Confirmation celebration.  It's super easy and healthy too:)

Ingredients...Sliced strawberries (bananas used for eyes and wing tail).

+Come Holy Spirit+

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Holy Spirit Cheesecake

Holy Spirit Cheesecake

This is a very easy cheese cake to make for Pentecost, Confirmation, or any celebration of the Holy Spirit.

Ingredients:

8 oz. cream cheese (softened)

1/3 Cup sugar

1 Cup sour cream

2 tsp. vanilla

8 oz whipped topping

10" graham cracker pie crust

(Handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips for topping)

Instructions:

Cream softened cream cheese and slowly add sugar.  Mix in sour cream and vanilla.  Fold in whipped topping.  Pour into graham cracker crust.  Use chocolate chips to design the dove topping!

The Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world.  It hold all things together and knows every word spoken by man, Alleluia.~Wisdom 1:7~

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Flames of Pentecost Cupcakes

With Pentecost coming quickly upon us, it's a good time to revisit some past posts with ideas for bringing the spirit of Pentecost alive in our meal and dessert preparations. In addition to the awesome birthday cake idea (Happy Birthday Church!) just shared by Robina there is A Cake for Pentecost from last year as well. Don't forget the Portuguese Holy Ghost Sopas shared by Amy or Evelyn Birge Vitz 's Twelve Fruit Salad from A Continual Feast. More ideas can be found in Jessica's Menu ideas for Pentecost Sunday and Pentecost suggestions are also mentioned in Jenn's two part series "Staples of Our Feastday Celebrations" - Wine and Bread.

I always like to have a simple option on hand if time is tight on feast days. For us cupcakes are an easy dessert to pull together. Here is a simple Pentecost cupcake decorating idea with two variations for "flames."

Using white frosted cupcakes add thin sliced strawberry "flames" to represent the tongues of fire.

Or add some red and yellow food coloring to small amounts of extra frosting and dab on swirl frosting "flames."

And check out Meredith's Sweetness and Light blog for her lovely strawberry topped cupcake variation from a few years ago.

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Menu ideas for Pentecost Sunday

Ok... I am on a roll with the Pentecost theme!! I promise this is my last post... at least for today! ;)

Since another name for Pentecost is "Whitsunday," there is a tradition to serve white foods. In Lent and Easter in the Christian Kitchen, the authors suggest serving a breakfast of powdered sugar doughnuts or an afternoon snack of milk and macaroons.

They also suggest serving Cornish Game Hens (ok--maybe I will post a recipe for this, unless someone else has one!!), to remind us of a dove, the symbol of the Holy Ghost, and a 12 Fruit Salad, symbolizing the 12 fruits of the Holy Ghost.

White side dishes for dinner could include: White Rice, Cauliflower, Potatoes and Pasta Alfredo, to name a few.

Another idea would be to go with a Red-Hot Theme since "the intense love and fire of the Holy Spirit are represented in the use of red as the liturgical color for Pentecost Sunday!" Examples would include: fiery hot food, food cooked over flames, and any other food that is red.

For Dessert we will be making a Pentecost Cake. Another idea, found in the above cookbook, would be to serve a frosted cookie topped with a red lifesaver holding a birthday candle to represent the flame, reminding us of the Holy Ghost in the Upper Room. As we blow out the candles we are reminded of the mighty wind that the apostles heard.

Don't forget to set your table with red if you can!! If you don't have a red tablecloth, you could make a centerpiece with seven red roses and seven red candles representing the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost!

Christine left a comment with even more decorating ideas: "If it [the tablecloth] is white, red flames cut from construction paper can be scattered on the tablecloth and hanging a dove from the dining room ceiling (either handmade or purchased from a craft store)." Thank you Christine!

However you celebrate, I hope you have a blessed Pentecost Sunday!!

Prayer to the Holy Ghost

COME HOLY GHOST, fill the hearts of thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of thy love

V Send forth thy spirit and they shall be created
R And thou Shalt renew the face of the earth

Let us pray. O God, who didst instruct the heart of thy faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, Grant us by the gift of the same spirit to be truly wise and rejoice in his consolation. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Pin It

Twelve-fruit Salad

In her book, A Continual Feast, Evelyn Birge Vitz says that, "It has long been traditional to list twelve fruits or graces of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers, Galatians 5 having provided the essential idea. The twelve are charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, long-suffering, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, and chastity. This is a wonderful season for fresh fruit. What could be more fitting or appetizing for this feast than a mixed fruit salad?"

Twelve Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

• 12 kinds of fresh fruit. Some possibilities include: red or green grapes, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pineapples, plums, apples, oranges, bananas, grapefruit, kiwi, mangoes, watermelon, cantaloupe and honey dew.
• Sugar (optional)
• Lemon juice (to prevent fruit from browning.)

Directions:

Wash, hull, peel and slice the fruit as necessary. If you are using melons, cut into bite-sized chunks or melon balls.

You can either mix all the fruit together in a large bowl or lay them in an attractive pattern on a bed of greens.

Sprinkle wit ha little sugar if you wish, and then with a little lemon juice.

Evelyn also recommends serving the Twelve-fruit Salad with a Curry Mayonnaise. I haven't tried it before, but it sounds interesting!

Curry Mayonnaise

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Mayonnaise
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 2 tablespoons lime juice

Combine all ingredients. Yield: about 1 1/4 cups sauce.

There are so many great meal ides for the feast of Pentecost, I am really looking forward to celebrating!!! Pin It

A Cake for Pentecost

Pentecost Sunday, also known as Whitsunday, ranks among the great feasts of Christianity. "It commemorates not only the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Disciples, but also the fruits and effects of that event: the completion of the work of redemption, the fullness of grace for the Church and its children, and the gift of faith for all nations."

To Celebrate, we will be baking and decorating a cake! I just love all the symbolism in this cake. It provides such a wonderfully yummy way to teach the children more about this feast.

Pentecost Cake

Directions:

Start with a white cake representing "Whitsunday." The cake can be home-made or store-bought, which ever you choose. To keep it simple, I usually just use a white cake mix.

Now for the decorations:

• White Frosting - For "Whitsunday"
• Large Candle in Center - represents Christ our Light, who promised to send the Holy Ghost.
• 12 Birthday Candles - represent the 12 Apostles and the tongues of fire.
• 7 red hearts - made of candy or icing, represent the 7 gifts of the Holy Ghost
• 12 strawberries - represent the 12 fruits of the Holy Ghost

Before cutting the cake, let the children blow out the candles representing the "mighty wind."

Serve with vanilla ice cream and even more strawberries!!

Enjoy!!



Update: Here is the picture of our cake from our 2009 Celebration!

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