This document describes instructions for making Easter cookies as an object lesson for teaching youth about Easter. The cookies use various ingredients and steps to represent different parts of Easter story. For example, pecans are beaten to represent Jesus' beating, vinegar is tasted to represent what Jesus drank on the cross, and the cookies are left in an unheated oven overnight to represent Jesus in the sealed tomb. The lesson uses scripture readings at various steps to explain the meaning behind each ingredient and step.

1. Youth Ministry
Illustrations -
Easter Cookies
These cookies are tasty
object lesson to remind
children / youth of the
Easter events
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2. Ingredients
1 cup whole pecans, 1
teaspoon vinegar, 3 egg
whites, pinch salt, 1 cup
sugar, 1 large plastic zip bag,
wooden spoon, mixing
bowl, cookie sheet, wax
paper, tape, Bible.
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3. Directions
Preheat your oven to 150
degrees Celsius.
1. Place the pecans in a large
plastic zip bag and let the
youth beat them with the
wooden spoon to break
them into small pieces.
Explain that after Jesus was
arrested, the Roman soldiers
beat him.
Read John 19:1-3.
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4. 2. Let each youth smell the
vinegar. Put 1 teaspoon of
vinegar into a mixing bowl.
Explain that when Jesus was
thirsty on the cross he was
given vinegar to drink.
Read John 19: 28-30.
3. Add egg whites to vinegar.
Explain the eggs as representing
life and that Jesus gave his life
to give us life.
Read John 10:10-11.
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5. 4. Sprinkle a little salt into
both hands of each youth.
Let them taste it from one
hand and brush it from the
other hand into the bowl.
Explain that this represents
the salty tears shed by
Jesus’ followers and the
bitterness of our own sin.
Read Luke 23:27.
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6. 5. Say “So far the
ingredients are not very
appetizing.” Add 1 cup of
sugar. Explain that the
sweetest part of the story is
that Jesus died because he
loves us. He wants us to
know and belong to him.
Read Psalm 34:8 and John
3:16.
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7. 6. Beat with a mixer on
high speed for 12 to 15
minutes until stiff peaks
are formed. Explain the
color white as representing
the purity God sees in
those whose sins have
been cleansed by Jesus.
Read Isaiah 11:8 and John
3:1-3.
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8. 7. Fold in the broken nuts.
Drop by teaspoons onto a
wax paper-covered cookie
sheet. Explain that each
mound represents the
rocky tomb where Jesus’
body was laid.
Read Matthew 27:57-60.
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9. 8. Put the cookie sheet in the
oven, close the door and turn
the oven off. Seal the oven
door with tape. Explain that
Jesus’ tomb was sealed.
Read Matthew 27:65-66.
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10. 9. Wait a couple of hours. If
you do this in the context of
an overnight meeting, wait
until the next morning. (Make
sure the oven is off). Explain
that they may feel sad to
leave the cookies in the oven,
and in the same way Jesus’
followers were in despair
when the tomb was sealed.
Read John 16:20 and 22.
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11. 10. Open the oven and give
everyone a cookie. Notice
the cracked surface and take
a bite. The cookies are
hollow. On the first Easter
Jesus’ followers were
amazed to find the tomb
open and empty.
Read Matthew 28:1-9.
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