A new tradition that we started this evening- Resurrection Cookies. I remember my Mom getting this recipe and making them with Leighton after I was already out of the home. The first thing to do, gather the ingredients.
Each one of these items represents something in the story of the Crucifixion of Jesus. As you are preparing each item to put into the bowl you are reading scripture that goes along with it. For instance, you put the pecans in a plastic bag and let the kids beat a wooden spoon on them until they are broken into pieces. This represents when Christ was beaten.
This is was the batter looks like.
The two little helpers.What they look like on the cookie sheet.
Another one of Abram's famous looks. And Lilla's famous pose (with pizza sauce and all)
At this point you turn off the oven, place the cookies inside the "tomb" and then seal the "tomb" with tape. You then keep them in there until morning.Oh the waiting is hard to do sometimes, but not when you get to lick the spoon!
We celebrate because Jesus did not stay dead. He rose again, the tomb is empty. When you take a bite out of these cookies there is a hallowed shell-representing that the tomb is empty, He is no longer there. He is alive!
*Note to self. These cookies will not be hallow when it is overcast or raining. :) But you know what, my kids didn't even know the difference.
We made those last year!
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