Easter Baking

We decided to try a new cookie recipe before Easter. I got the recipe from here and the idea is that you use pastel colored M&Ms on top of green-dyed oatmeal cookies so that it looks like Easter eggs hiding in the grass. I found egg-shaped pastel M&Ms and thought I'd hit the jackpot. They were pretty fun and very yummy.

Cat was an enthusiastic helper, as always.

Jack was an enthusiastic sampler, as always.
Eliza had a good time hanging out with us in the kitchen.

And when the older two got bored, they helped out by washing dishes. Er... sort of. At least, there was water and dishes involved.

Do they look like Easter eggs hiding in the grass?

Who cares. At least they tasted good.


A couple of weeks later we made Resurrection Rolls for the first time (I used the top recipe on this page). I'm sure most of you have heard of these, but just in case... you use prepared dough (I happened to have some biscuit dough in the fridge and it worked fine) or you make your own dough, and wrap it around a marshmallow. The marshmallow represents Christ's body in a tomb, and when you bake the roll, the marshmallow "disappears." The roll is hollow when you bite into it, just like Christ's tomb was empty on Easter morning.


While I made the rolls with Cat and Jack, Ben kept Eliza happy by making silly faces.


And, for the record, these were pretty yummy too. (But next time I think I'd rather make my own dough. I'll probably try biscuit dough before anything else. My friend Paula Deen gave me a really good and easy recipe.)