Cinnamon Sugar

Last Saturday, the day before Easter, R and I made breakfast for the family. We made the following recipe as a sweet, yummy way to symbolize the resurrection and to celebrate Easter.

Easter Lesson Rolls

Ingredients: (each item represents how Jesus'body was prepared for burial)

Large Marshmallows

Melted butter

Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture

Can(s) of crescent rolls

1. Open can of crescent rolls and separate into triangles. The rolls represent the linen wrappings used in covering the dead.

2. Dip and roll one marshmallow (representing Jesus' body) into the melted butter. The butter represents the oils used in anointing the dead body.

3. Roll the marshmallow in the sugar/cinnamon mixture. The mixture represents the spices used in burials.

4. Place the marshmallow in the center of the crescent triangle. Fold and pinch the edges tight. Put each crescent-wrapped marshmallow on a slightly greased cookie sheet.

5. Bake the rolls as directed on the package. (The oven represents the tomb.)

When cooked, the marshmallow melts, leaving only the puffed crescent roll. This demonstrates how Jesus rose from the dead. All that remained in the tomb were the linen wrappings.

Luke 24
The Resurrection

1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.

5In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

6He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:

7'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "

8Then they remembered his words.
9When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.

10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.

11But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.

12Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

The rest of our 2009 Easter Story...Rob's interputations...

• Really, in his defense, R has the Easter Story pretty correct from Palm Sunday through Resurrection Day. He can tell you about Jesus riding the donkey into Jerusalem and most of what happened all week concluding Jesus coming back to life!
• When we made the Easter rolls, R shouted "Jesus is ALIVE" when we took the rolls out of the oven (so cute, love the enthuasism!).
• When asked, R is happy to tell you all about Easter week, in as much detail as he knows.
• He will tell you that once Jesus died, his friends took him down from the cross, rubbed him with oil, rolled him in cinnamon sugar, and wrapped him in strips of linen cloth! Yep, cinnamon sugar...not "spices."

Hilarious...we will definitely try the rolls again next year. Maybe I'll emphasize spices, not cinnamon sugar...then again, maybe not!