A variation to the resurrection cookies is this great resurrection rolls and devotional reading. It works in similar fashion to the cookies.
INGREDIENTS FOR RESURRECTION ROLLS:
- One can of crescent roll dough
- 8 large marshmallows (or one for each roll you’ll be making)
- Melted butter
- Cinnamon sugar. I use 2 Tablespoons of Sugar with one teaspoon of Cinnamon and it’s more than enough.
- Bible
ASSEMBLE THE RESURRECTION ROLLS AND READ THE STORY:
1. Read John 19 while the oven is pre-heating according to the package directions. If you’re really on top of things, spend the week before reading John 12-18 with your kids.
2. Unroll the crescent rolls. Explain that this is like the cloth they wrapped Jesus in.
3. Give your child a marshmallow and explain that it represents Jesus… all white and pure because He was without sin.
4. Roll the marshmallows in the melted butter. This symbolizes the embalming oils.
5. Roll the marshmallows in the cinnamon sugar. This is like the spices used to prepare his body for burial.
6. Wrap the marshmallow in the crescent roll cloth, pinching the dough together securely. Don’t worry about the shape so much, they’ll taste the same no matter how you roll or bundle them. This represents how they would have wrapped Jesus’ body. I like to brush them with more melted butter, but it’s not necessary.
7. Put the rolls in the oven (symbolizing the tomb) and bake for the amount of time specified on the package.
8. While the rolls are baking, read John 20:1-18.
9. Open the tomb and remove the rolls. Make sure you let them cool completely then, break one open and discover what happened to the marshmallow. Jesus is risen!
Again full disclosure, this is not my recipe and I hate reinventing the wheel, this one is credited to Angela Mills over at http://www.angelamillsbooks.com/homegrown-mom/family/creating-family-times/resurrection-rolls-an-easy-easter-treat/1689
I am not completely sure who actually came up with this one either, a quick google search will reveal this recipe all over the internet but this is the only one I can find I can credit. I do not know where we first got this from but cudo’s to the creative biblical cookery.