Easter (Resurrection) Cookies
Ingredients
1 c whole pecans
1 tsp vinegar
3 egg whites
1 c sugar
pinch of salt
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 300 (IMPORTANT). Break the pecans into pieces or crush them with a rolling pin, remembering Jesus body was hurt & broken for us. Read John 19:1,3
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Let everyone sniff the vinegar and remember that the soldiers offered Jesus vinegar – also called sour wine – to drink when He hung on the cross. Read John 19:28-30. Pour the vinegar into a medium sized mixing bowl
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Add the egg whites to the vinegar. Eggs represent new life in the animal kingdom and for humans. Remember that Jesus gave His life for us. Read John 10:10-11
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Put a tiny bit of salt on everyone’s finger and taste it. Put a pinch of salt in the bowl. Salt reminds us of the tears of Jesus’ followers and our tears when we are sorry for the sins we commit. Read Luke 23:27
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Now let everyone have a taste of sugar and remember the sweet part of the story. Jesus died for our sins because He loves us. Add the sugar to the bowl. Read John 3:16
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Beat the mixture with an electric mixer on high until stiff peaks form and the mixture is pure white. That reminds us that Jesus was pure & He never sinned. Read 1 John 3:1-3
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Fold in the chopped pecans and drop tablespoons onto a cookie sheet that is covered in wax paper. The lumpy mounds represent the tomb where Jesus body was laid to rest. Read Matthew 27:58-60
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Put the cookies in the oven and turn the oven OFF! Put a few pieces of tape over the oven door to ‘seal’ the oven and remind that Pilate set a guard of soldiers by Jesus’ tomb so that the disciples wouldn’t steal the body. Read Matthew 27:66
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The cookies must be left in the sealed oven overnight, even if we feel sad, just as Jesus’ followers felt very sad after he died.
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On Easter morning run to the oven to open it and find delicious hollow cookies, just like Jesus’ tomb was empty. Read Matthew 28:6 and have a cookie! He is Risen!