Friday Food Day

Easter Story Cookies 

This recipe is from Sis Sweet.  These cookies would make another great Family Home Evening activity for Easter.

What you will need:

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1 cup pecans
1 tsp. vinegar
3 egg whites
pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
1 qt. or gal. size zipper bag
wooden spoon
tape

*Before you start, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper

Directions:
1.  Have your helpers crush, smash and beat the pecans and while they do it share with them that this is what the Roman soldiers did to Jesus body, Read John 19:1-3

2.  Before you add the vinegar to the mixing bowl let the children smell the vinegar.  Explain that this is what Jesus was offered to drink. Read John 19:28-30

3. To the vinegar, add egg whites.  Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life.  Read John 10:10-11

4.  Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand and let them taste it.  Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sins.  Read Luke 23:27.

5.  Next, the story turns sweet.  Add 1 cup of sugar, explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us.  He wants us to know and belong to Him.  Read Psalms 34:8 and John 3:16

6.  Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12-15 minutes until stiff peaks form.  Explain that the color white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been forgiven.  Read Isaiah 1:18 & John 3:1-3.

7. Fold in the broken nuts.  Drop the mixture by spoonful onto the cookie sheet.  Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid.  Read Matthew 27:57-60

8. Place the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF.  Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door.  Explain that Jesus' tomb was sealed.  Read Matthew 27: 65-66.

9.  GO TO BED.  Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight.  Jesus' followers were in despair went the tomb was sealed.  Read John 16:20

10.  The next morning....open the oven and remove the cookies.  Notice - the cookies are hollow!  On the first Easter, Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty.  Read Matthew 28:1-9.