Easter Treats - Resurrection Day Cookies

Celebrate the Empty Tomb Together with This Bake-It-Yourself Bible Lesson

"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and Hope triumphant say
Christ will rise on Easter Day."

Phillips Brooks
An Easter Carol
(1835 - 1893)


As a family, you can celebrate a miracle - right in your own kitchen! Here's a baking project that is fun, and it helps you to teach your children in a very tangible way about the real meaning of Easter.

This project begins Saturday evening, the night before Easter (Resurrection Sunday).

Materials and ingredients:

Gather your materials. Here's what you need:

1 cup of whole pecans

1 teaspoon of clear vinegar

3 egg whites (separate from yolks)

1 pinch of salt

1 zippered plastic bag (gallon-sized)

1 large wooden spoon

1 large mixing bowl

1 roll of waxed paper

1 large metal cookie sheet

1 roll of masking tape

1 Bible

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 300 (F) degrees. You must do this first, before you begin the recipe.

Place the whole pecans in the zippered plastic bag. Instruct your children to take turns beating the pecans with the wooden spoon, breaking the nuts into small pieces. Explain to them how the Roman soldiers beat Jesus after He was arrested. Read John 19:1-3 together.

Measure out the vinegar, and allow each child to smell it. Pour the vinegar into the mixing bowl. Explain to the children how Jesus became thirsty, as He hung on the cross. The guards offered Him sour vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30 together.

Separate the egg whites, and add them to the vinegar in the bowl. Explain how eggs represent new life. Jesus was willing to give His own life to give us new life. Read John 1:10-11 together.

Sprinkle a bit of salt into each child's hand. Let them taste the salt, then brush the rest of it into the bowl. Explain how the salt represents the salty tears of Jesus' followers, who were so sad when He died on the cross. Salt tastes bitter, just like our sin. Read Luke 23:27 together.