Resurrection Cookies & Easter Scripture Eggs}Activity Day Idea

 The process of making Resurrection cookies is a wonderful way to share the Easter story.

I realize Easter is just a few days away and this post may be a little late for some of you but maybe you can pin it for next year!

This activity would be a fun thing to do as a family this weekend, Saturday night, the night before Easter.  We did it with our Activity Day girls this week and they really enjoyed it.  Especially eating the 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.  The final product, the cookie, is a representation of the empty tomb that was found on Easter morning.  The meringues cook so that the middle of the cookie is hallow.

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

The ingredients are simple – pecans, egg whites, white vinegar, sugar and a pinch of salt.  We chose to use half nuts and half chocolate chips in our cookies.  Good choice!  Preheat oven to 300 degrees before you start.

The night before:

Step one:  Beating the nuts with a wooden spoon represents that Jesus was arrested and beaten by Roman soldiers

Step two: We had the girls smell the vinegar and talked about how Jesus was forced to drink it when he was thirty on the cross. It is added to the bowl.

Step three:  Egg whites are added.  Eggs represent life and that by giving His life, Jesus gave us eternal life.

Step four:  Each girl was given a little salt in their hand and encouraged to taste it.  The salt represents the salty tears that were shed by Jesus’ followers and the bitterness of our sin. A pinch of salt is added to the bowl.

Step five:  Sugar was added to show that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us.

Step six:  The egg whites are beat to form peaks and the white color represents the purity in God’s eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Christ.

Step seven: Fold in the nuts and  drop by teaspoons onto parchment paper covered cookie sheet.  Each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus’ body was placed.

Step eight:  Place cookie sheet in oven. We used masking tape to seal the oven just as the tomb was sealed.  I told the girls that this was purely symbolic and the cookies would bake fine without the tape.  The oven is immediately turned off when the cookies are placed inside (300 degrees)

The next step is to go to bed and then on Easter morning open the oven and give everyone a cookie.  As they take a bite they will discover that the cookies are hollow.  Just as on the first Easter morning Jesus’ followers discovered the empty tomb.

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

How grateful I am 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.  To repent of my sins, to be better, to do better.  I love this short video about Starting Today.

After our cookies were made we then put together a set of Easter Scripture Eggs for each of the girl.  Another wonderful way to share the Easter story.  I encouraged the girls to use the eggs with their family at their Easter dinner or brunch.  Each egg contains a part of the Easter story in scripture and an object that represents that scripture.  I have shared this idea with you before and you can find all the details for Easter Scripture Eggs here.

I hope that each of the girl’s left with a better understanding of the real reason we celebrate Easter and with the ability to share that with their family!

 Resurrection Cookies

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Resurrection Cookies

The process of making Resurrection cookies is a wonderful way to share the Easter story.

Ingredients

• 1 cup pecans or 1/2 cup pecans and 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 tsp vinegar
• pinch of salt
• 1 cup sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

   
   

2. Place pecans in plastic bag and crush with the back of a wooden spoon

3. Add vinegar, egg whites, salt and sugar into mixer.

4. Beat until egg whites are stiff, about 5-10 minutes.

5. Fold in nuts and or chocolate chips

6. Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper or a brown grocery bag

7. Place meringue by spoonful onto baking sheet

8. Place into hot oven and turn oven OFF.  Keep the door shut and allow to sit overnight

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Hi – I’m Leigh Anne! Food, family and friends are three of my favorite things. I love sharing easy, delicious recipes and entertaining ideas that everyone will love. When she started her blog, Your Homebased Mom, over 9 years ago she had no idea that it would one day house over 2,400 recipes and ideas! .

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