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Home / Latest Posts / Holiday Ideas / Easter / Resurrection Cookies

Resurrection Cookies

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 3/18/20Updated: 5/03/24

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The process of making Resurrection cookies is a wonderful way to share the Easter story. They are a light and sweet meringue cookie filled with nuts or chocolate.

Resurrection Cookies

Why You’ll Love This Recipe!

It is the perfect way to share the Easter store with a hands on activity that is delicious too. Each step of the recipe corresponds to part of the Easter story and there is a scripture to go along with it. Make it a family activity on the Saturday night before Easter and then enjoy your cookies the next day.

What are Resurrection Cookies?

The process of making Resurrection cookies is a wonderful way to share the Easter story.  Each step and ingredient of the recipe represents a part of the story and the final product.  The cookie, is a representation of the empty tomb that was found on Easter morning and the meringues cook so that the middle of the cookie is hallow.

Resurrection cookies on a plate

I found the recipe over at The Idea Room and you can visit Amy to get a printout of the scriptures and directions.

Empty Tomb Cookie Ingredients:

The ingredients are simple:

  • pecans
  • egg whites
  • white vinegar
  • sugar
  •  pinch of salt

Use half nuts and half chocolate chips if you prefer or all chocolate chips.  Preheat oven to 300 degrees before you start.

ingredients for resurrection cookies

How to Make resurrection Cookies

The night before:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

1:  Place pecans in a plastic baggie and seal and beat the nuts with a wooden spoon to break them into small pieces.  This represents when Jesus was arrested and beaten by Roman soldiers (Read John 19:1-3)

beating nuts with a wooden spoon

2:  Smell the vinegar.  Talk about how Jesus was forced to drink it when he was thirsty on the cross and add the vinegar to the bowl. (John 19:28-30)

smelling vinegar

3:  Add egg whites to bowl.  Eggs represent life and that by giving His life, Jesus gave us eternal life. (Read John 10:10-11)

adding egg whites to bowl

4:  Give everyone a little salt in their hand and encourage them to taste it.  The salt represents the salty tears that were shed by Jesus’ followers and the bitterness of our sin. Place a pinch of salt is added to the bowl. (Read Luke 23:27)

salt in hand

5:  Add the sugar.  Sugar is added to show that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. (Read Psalms 34:8 and John 3:16)

6:  Beat the egg whites to form peaks, about 10-12 minutes.  The white color represents the purity in God’s eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Christ. (Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3)

stiff peak egg whites

7: Fold in the nuts or mini chocolate chips and drop by teaspoons onto parchment paper covered cookie sheet.  Each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus’ body was placed. (Read Matthew 27:57-60)

adding nuts to meringue

8:  Place cookie sheet in preheated oven and turn the oven OFF. Use masking tape to seal the oven just as the tomb was sealed.  (Read Matthew 27:65-66)

9.  Go to bed!  Just as you may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight, Jesus’ followers were sad when the tomb was sealed and they had to leave his body there.  (Read John 16:20,22)

Easter story cookies

Easter Morning

10. On Easter morning open the oven and give everyone a cookie.  Take a bite and discover that the cookies are hollow just as on the first Easter morning Jesus’ followers discovered the empty tomb. (Read Matthew 28:1-9)

chocolate chip meringue cookie

It is a simple and fun way to share the Easter story with your family and it is yummy too!

I am grateful for the Easter story and that I know that my Savior lives and that He died so that I may, each day, have the opportunity to begin again.  I am grateful for the opportunity to repent of my sins and to be better and to do better.

Download the pdf here – Resurrection Cookies or Easter Story Cookies

Tips From Leigh Anne

  • Whip your egg whites in a metal or glass bowl, not a plastic one.
  • Be sure your mixing bowl is very clean.
  • Don’t get even a smidge of egg yolk in your egg whites. They will not whip correctly if there is any egg yolk in them.
  • Beat your meringue mixture just until it is able to hold a peak, don’t over beat.

Other fun Easter ideas and recipes:

  • Easter Egg Scriptures
  • Sour Cream Lemon Pie
  • Buttery Cloverleaf Yeast Rolls
  • Natural Dye Easter Eggs
  • Grow Your Own Easter Grass

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4.80 from 24 votes
resurrection cookie - empty tomb

Resurrection Cookies

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
 The process of making Resurrection cookies is a wonderful way to share the Easter story. And they are a meringue cookie filled with nuts or chocolate.
serves: 12 cookies
Prep:30 minutes minutes
Cook:8 hours hours 2 minutes minutes
Total:8 hours hours 32 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup pecans or mini chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 egg whites

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
  • Place pecans in plastic bag and crush with the back of a wooden spoon
  • Add vinegar, egg whites, salt and sugar into mixer.
  • Beat until egg whites are stiff, about 5-10 minutes.
  • Fold in nuts and or chocolate chips
  • Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper or a brown grocery bag
  • Place meringue by spoonful onto baking sheet
  • Place into hot oven and turn oven OFF.  Keep the door shut and allow to sit overnight

Tips & Notes:

Download the pdf here – Resurrection Cookies or Easter Story Cookies
  • Whip your egg whites in a metal or glass bowl, not a plastic one.
  • Be sure your mixing bowl is very clean.
  • Don’t get even a smidge of egg yolk in your egg whites. They will not whip correctly if there is any egg yolk in them.
  • Beat your meringue mixture just until it is able to hold a peak, don’t over beat.

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 125kcal (6%) Carbohydrates: 17g (6%) Protein: 1g (2%) Fat: 5g (8%) Sodium: 12mg (1%) Potassium: 46mg (1%) Sugar: 17g (19%) Vitamin A: 5IU Vitamin C: 0.1mg Calcium: 6mg (1%) Iron: 0.2mg (1%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
resurrection cookie - empty tomb
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  1. Sarah says

    Posted on 4/11 at 8:44 am

    Amazing recipe definitially a must-try!

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  2. Melanie says

    Posted on 4/8 at 11:19 am

    I love this recipe! I also added some chocolate chips into mine. Everyone just loves them!

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  3. Marie says

    Posted on 4/3 at 10:12 am

    love the cookie recipe . lost mine so glad to find one again.

    Reply
  4. Dorothy says

    Posted on 2/22 at 9:13 am

    Thank you for sharing this video. Going to do this with church Sunday school class

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  5. Angela says

    Posted on 4/16 at 3:11 pm

    Tell me more about this “Activity Day”, sounds great!

    I made these as a kid with my grandma and we are making these with our kids this year.

    Reply
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