Eggcellent Rolls

Last Saturday we made lots of preparations for Easter Sunday. As a part of our preparation and celebration, we colored eggs and attempted to make Resurrection Rolls.

The girls, even Aliyah, helped put the eggs in the pot to boil. We only cracked one egg! After the eggs were boiled and cooled, the girls helped decorate and color them. Unfortunately, we were so busy coloring the eggs we forgot to snap photos, but you can see the finished products in the picture below.

When the eggs were complete, we made our resurrection rolls. The rolls consist of crescent rolls, marshmallows, cinnamon, sugar, and butter. The epitome of health food, right?

The roll construction went something like this: one girl dipped the marshmallow in the butter, one rolled it in the cinnamon and sugar, both attempted to eat as much cinnamon and sugar as they could get away with, and I wrapped the final cinnamony marshmallow in the crescent roll.

Once the rolls were all complete, we put them in the fridge for the night. In the morning, the plan was to bake them for breakfast. As the rolls bake, the marshmallow melts and then the inside of the roll is empty, just like Jesus' tomb. A perfect object lesson for Easter morning, if, and only if, you properly seal the crescent rolls around the marshmallows. If you don't properly seal the rolls, you get this:

a version of resurrection rolls that your husband will deem heretical. I would just like to point out that the rolls WERE empty, just not in the intended manner. I would also like to say that they still tasted good and we still talked about Jesus resurrection!

It's a good thing the girls are still little, they won't remember these mistakes, that is unless someone writes stories about them, takes pictures, and posts them on a blog.