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I failed to post this in time, but here’s a link to next year’s Easter baking project.<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually, the recipe is so wonderful, I can’t help but post it.<\/p>\n

Make the night before Easter:
\n Resurrection Cookies
\nIngredients:
\n 1 cup pecans
\n 3 egg whites
\n 1 cup sugar
\n 1 tsp. vinegar
\n pinch salt
\n wooden spoon
\n tape
\n wax paper
\n 1 Bible<\/p>\n

Directions:
\n 1. Preheat oven to 300.
\n 2. Put the pecans in a baggie. Have the kids beat the pecans with the
\n wooden spoon. While they are doing that, Mom reads John 19:1-3.
\n Explain to kids how Jesus was beaten by the Roman soldiers.
\n 3. Have kids smell the vinegar in the bottle. Read John 19:28-30. Put
\n the vinegar in a mixing bowl. Explain how Jesus was given sour vinegar
\n to drink, while hanging on the cross.
\n 4. Add egg whites to vinegar. Explain that the eggs represent “life”, and
\n that Jesus gave his life. Read John 10:10-11.
\n 5. Put a small pinch of salt in each child’s hand and let her\/him taste it
\n with their finger. Have them sprinkle it into the bowl with the egg
\n whites and vinegar. Read Luke 23:27 and explain that the salt is like
\n the “salty tears” that were shed by Jesus’ followers, and the sadness
\n they felt for their sins.
\n 6. Talk to the children about the strange combination in the bowl. Talk
\n about how could all this “unusual” stuff make a sweet cookie. Jesus
\n took something bitter and made it something wonderful.
\n 7. Beat the combination on high for 12-15 minutes. As the mixture turns
\n bright white. Explain to the children that the white represents the
\n purity in God’s eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus.
\n Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3.
\n 8. Fold in the nuts. Drop by teaspoon onto a wax paper covered cookie
\n sheet. Talk about how the mounds look like the rocky tomb where Jesus
\n was laid. Read Matthew 27:57-60.
\n 9. Put the cookie sheet into the oven, close the door, and turn OFF the
\n oven.
\n10. Give the kids tape and let them “Seal” the oven. Put 2 strips across
\n the oven door to seal it. Explain how Jesus’ tomb was sealed. Read
\n Matthew 27:65-66.
\n11. GO TO BED! This may feel hard for the children to leave their cookies
\n unattended and not finished over night. Explain the despair that Jesus’
\n followers felt leaving Jesus in the sealed tomb that first night. Read
\n John 16:20 and 22. This really drove the point home for my children.
\n They went to bed the night before Easter REALLY thinking about what
\n Jesus had done for us.
\n12. Get up Easter morning before your children. Remove the tape and open
\n the oven.
\n13. When your children awaken have them get a cookie from the sheet.
\n Notice how the cookies have a cracked surface. Talk about how Jesus’
\n followers were shocked to go to his tomb and find it open.
\n14. Have each child take a bite of his\/her cookie. They will be very
\n surprised to find that their cookies are HOLLOW. Explain how Jesus’
\n followers were amazed that when they found the tomb open, that it also
\n was EMPTY! Jesus HAS risen! Read Matthew 28:1-9.
\n15. Pray. Thank God for sending his Son. Thank Jesus for dying on the
\n cross for our sins. Thank Him for raising again. Thank Him. Thank
\n Him. Thank Him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t decided whether my favorite part is kids beating nuts with a spoon, reminiscent of the Roman guards, or tasting the salt of Jesus’ tears. Waking up to a special treat of an empty tomb is also pretty swell.<\/p>\n