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It's That Time of year again, folks!
http://kitchenandkids.com/2013/03/19/teachable-moments-resurrection-cookies-and-resurrection-rolls/Teachable Moments:
Resurrection Cookies and Resurrection Rolls
snips:
1) Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2) Place the nuts in a baggy and give your child a wooden spoon and have them beat the nuts into pieces. As they are doing this let them know that the Roman soldier beat Jesus. Read John 19:1-3. After the nuts are in pieces set them aside.
3) Now put a small amount of vinegar on your little one’s finger and have them taste it. Pour 1 tsp. vinegar into mixing bowl. After they tasted the vinegar ask them what they though? Was it good? Was it bitter? Tell them that as Jesus was on the cross the soldiers gave Jesus vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30.
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11) Leave the cookies in the oven over-night. Make sure you turned the oven off. Now your children might be upset they have to leave the cookies overnight, but this is a great time to tell them how sad Jesus’ followers were when the tomb was sealed and they had to leave Jesus. Read John 16:20-22
12) The next morning, open your oven, pull out your cookies and observe what happened. The cookies should be hollow on the inside. Tell your child that is exactly how Jesus’ tomb was found – Empty! Read Matthew 28:1-9 and enjoy your cookies.
Photo: Resurrection Cookies/Jesus's Empty Tomb - YUM!
More steps + pictures + Resurrection Rolls recipe at the link.
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Looks like mom might have gone too far with the Resurrection Rolls:
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. While your oven is pre-heating read John 19 – 20:1-10 to your kids, as a side note make sure that is actually what you read them or you will be scratching your head and wondering how in the world does this pertain to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.
Ok, seriously, wtf? Why on earth would you read something so violent to your toddler?
6) The crescent roll is representative of the linens that Jesus was wrapped in. Place the oiled and spiced marshmallow in the middle of the large portion of the crescent roll and fold the edges all around the marshmallow. It will NOT look like a crescent roll, but more like a little boulder. (How apropos?)
7) Place your little marshmallow boulders on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and then slide into the tomb (oven) for about 12 minutes. Don’t let your little ones watch them bake or cool, it needs to be a surprise.
8) After cooking remove from the oven and let them cool.
9) Break a cooled roll apart and show your little one.
What do they see? If they are like most little ones they won’t see anything and they will be amazed the marshmallow isn’t there. This is when you liken it to when Jesus rose and the tomb was left empty except for his linen cloth. However, be careful they might be like my little pistol and say “Oh, the marshmallows melted and they aren’t there anymore.” There was absolutely no amazement on her part.
7) Place your little marshmallow boulders on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and then slide into the tomb (oven) for about 12 minutes. Don’t let your little ones watch them bake or cool, it needs to be a surprise.
8) After cooking remove from the oven and let them cool.
9) Break a cooled roll apart and show your little one.
What do they see? If they are like most little ones they won’t see anything and they will be amazed the marshmallow isn’t there. This is when you liken it to when Jesus rose and the tomb was left empty except for his linen cloth. However, be careful they might be like my little pistol and say “Oh, the marshmallows melted and they aren’t there anymore.” There was absolutely no amazement on her part.
An atheist in the making...
To show the little ones where Jay-zus bled out.
Cool!
maybe this:
"Yes, kiddies, grab your wooden spoons and give those nuts a good whacking, just like the Roman soldier did to Jesus’s."
Regardless, yep, any parent who'd want their kid to make these cookies is nuts. 
