Here are some special treats for Easter:
Resurrections Rolls
I don’t remember for sure where I first saw the idea for Resurrection Rolls, but we have had them on Easter, and only on Easter, every year since.
The instructions I have are as follows:
Make or buy bread dough (the frozen kind is fine — let it thaw first.) On Saturday night, let the children wrap a piece of bread dough around a large marshmallow. Put them on a cookie sheet in the oven and tape it shut (signifying sealing the empty tomb) and leave them there overnight. The next morning take them out and preheat the oven. Bake the rolls, and when they are done let the children open them. The marshmallow will be gone! The little “tombs” will be empty and hollow. Enjoy the rolls with breakfast; they will have a sweet taste to them.
I use the frozen yeast roll dough rather than bread dough — it’s already the right size and you can take out just as many as you want (be sure and get the dough, not the ready-made heat-and-eat frozen rolls, The brand I use is Rhodes). I usually take them out to thaw the night before and then put the marshmallow in first thing when I get up in the morning, before my shower and breakfast-making — I have always been afraid it would rise too much if I put the marshmallow in the night before. But I might try it that way this year and see what happens.
Here are pictures from last year:
They didn’t get as “poofy” as usual, and this picture turned out blurrier than I thought when I took it, but you get the idea.
My husband played around with it and took some photos on black fabric. I like the way the light behind it looks like it’s coming from inside.
Nests
Our kids’ Easter break from school is usually the week before Easter, and the elementary grades will sometimes have some kind of little party or at least treats the last day before break. One year I saw this idea and used it for one such party.
All you do is make up a batch of the stuff for Rice Krispy Treats (I like to put peanut butter in ours) but shape a handful of it into a flat circle, then put a little indention in the middle of the circle (You could put them in cupcake pans, but that it a little too deep for me and a little less nest-like). I filled that space with jelly beans (to look like eggs), but another year I saw someone put some of the little Peeps chicks in the nests. It helps to grease your hands when shaping the nests. 🙂 I would avoid using the tinted coconut unless you know the recipients will like it (no one I know does).
Basket Cupcakes
This is something else that would be good for an Easter celebration or perhaps a Sunday School class that day. I got this idea from a friend whose daughter’s birthday is in March and sometimes falls near Easter.
Just make your favorite cupcakes and frost, then use a licorice stick (a Twizzler might work, too) for a basket handle — insert each end on opposite sides of the cupcake. Decorate the cupcake with jelly beans or sprinkles, or, if you’re skilled in such things, frosting flowers.
For more great tips, or to share your own, go to Rocks In My Dryer.
I am also resurrecting this post for FiddleDeeDee’s Saturday Stirrings at It Coulda’ Been Worse.
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Those are great ideas! I’ve been looking for something for the Children’s Department at church for Easter morning. Thanks for sharing!
Cute ideas! I especially love the resurrection rolls!
What cute ideas!
Oh, I love these ideas! I will be trying them. Thanks for sharing!
great idea. I will make these rolls this Easter!
Wonderful ideas. I will have to try the resurrection rolls with my boys this year.
I love the rice krispy nest idea! My son would really get a kick out of that. What great tips. Thanks.
Those nests sound so cute. I am going to try them!
Great ideas! We did the resurrection rolls last year during Team Kids. The kids enjoyed it a lot.
Linda
thanks
i think Billy and I might make the resurrection rolls he likes cooking 🙂 and its kind of a science experiment too as well of course as being a bible study too
What a great idea for Easter morning. I will give it to my daughter so the grands can see it. We were reading some Easter books from the library yesterday, of course all about bunnies and eggs. I said to the 4-year-old, “You know, these aren’t the real Easter story. The real story is about Jesus rising from the grave.” “No, Grandma, he rose from the DEAD!” I’m so glad she knows!! She really loves Jesus.
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I have had these before and was glad to find the directions on your web site. They are a nice addition to our Easter remembrance of the resurrection.
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Lots of cute ideas! Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed Easter!
I love this idea. What a fun way to share the story of Easter!
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Great and delicious sounding ideas! Thanks for sharing! Happy Easter!
Great ideas! In the past we’ve made the resurrection rolls with crescent dough in the tube.
May you enjoy a blessed Easter!
Those look really really good!!!
Great idea, I LOVE Rhodes products too. They are easy to work with and taste close to homemade. Thank you for sharing.
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