Easter Cookies a.k.a. Empty Tomb Cookies

For the past few years I have been wanting to make Empty Tomb Cookies also called Resurrection Cookies.  We served them at our Easter lunch on Sunday.  My step-mother didn't like the name Empty Tomb Cookies so we'll just call them Easter Cookies.  Last year we had just moved into our house and we ran out of time.  So this year I wanted to make sure we had time to make these.  They took about 30 minutes to make and put on the cookie sheet for the oven.  I think just about any child would love making these.  My 3 year old loved helping me mix the ingredients and taste various things.  While we were making the cookies, my husband read us the corresponding Bible verses.  I got the original recipe here.  This is going to be a new Easter tradition for our family.  I think this recipe and the corresponding Bible verses really helps a child visualize what happened during the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Empty Tomb Cookies 

Ingredients:

1 cup whole pecans, in a plastic baggie
1 wooden mallet or wooden hammer
1 tsp vinegar
3 egg whites
1 pinch salt
1 cup sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees--you MUST do it now. Also, gather a cooking mallet, kitchen mixer, masking tape and Bible.
2. Read John 19:1-3 ~ Jesus was beaten for our sins; beat the nuts with a cooking mallet; set aside.
3. Read John 19:28-30 - Jesus drank something like vinegar (gall), sniff the fragrance, dip finger in and taste, too; place the vinegar in a mixing bowl.
4. Read John 10:10-11 - Egg whites symbolize Jesus' holy, innocent life; add whites to the bowl with the vinegar.
5. Read Luke 23:27 - the bitter tears of the women; taste a few grains, remember your own sins; add the salt to the bowl.
6. Read Psalm 34:8 and John 3:16 - Sweet salvation! Taste and see; add to the bowl.
7. Crank up the mixer and let it go while you read from Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3; let the mixer go for about 12-15 MINUTES; this needs to be VERY stiff!
8. Read Matthew 27:57-60 - Fold the nuts into the egg-sugar mixture; this symbolizes the rocks in the garden.
9. Using a scoop or knife & spoon, drop by spoon into mounds (to resemble a rocky tomb); put into the oven and turn it OFF!
10. Read Matthew 27:65-66 - The tomb is sealed; use two pieces of tape (5-6 inches long) to "seal" the door edges (symbolically).
11. Read John 16:20 & 22 - Consider these passages, then go to bed!
12. NEXT MORNING: Read Matthew 28:1-9 - Jesus is risen! Behold--the empty tomb! Unseal the oven door, take out the cookies, break or bite one in half -- it should be hollow inside---empty---just like the Tomb!
13. He is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
    
    

    

    Blue Rock beat the pecans
    

    
    

    

    Blue Rock tried the vinegar

    
    

    

    Poured the egg whites in the bowl

    
    

    

    Tasted the salt

    
    

    

    Tasted the sugar

    
    

    

    Poured the sugar in the mixing bowl

    
    

    

    Picture of Blue Rock and Daddy

    
    

    

    We watched for about 14 minutes

    
    

    

    We folded in the nuts and then placed them on wax paper

    
    

    

    Right before the oven

    
    

    

    Blue Rock taped the oven closed

    
    

    

    Sunday morning

    
    

    

    The cookies are hollow inside-empty-just like the Tomb!