Resurrection Rolls

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I made resurrection rolls for my Primary class today and they loved them so much that I thought I would pass it on. We also did these as a family for our activity/lesson for family home evening.
I originally got the recipe from here and used the scripture at the end.
(Just look for her resurrection rolls link.)

But this adaptation includes more of a lesson and uses crescent rolls with the cinnamon and sugar inside.


I used this easy and quick homemade roll recipe to make our rolls.
(I sometimes make my recipe with half wheat/half white flour if I don't have enough wheat flour on hand. Also just use 3 eggs if you don't have egg powder).

This is how our resurrection rolls turned out.

I put the cinnamon and sugar inside with the marshmellow so that I could include the lesson (like the 2nd recipe) but used the homemade rolls (like the 1st recipe). Either recipe is delicious and achieves the same hollow effect. We made them from start to finish with our kids, so that they could see the marshmellow "disappear". They loved it! It was a great activity and lesson and I think we might continue this as part of our Easter traditions.  After we finished eating them, Seth asked if we could eat the rest for breakfast the next day and make them again. Then, Josh asked if we could make them EVERYDAY!....Um...no...I told him that might be a bit much, maybe once a month would be more in our realm of reality. :)

On a side note: if you make these, use parchment paper under the rolls because inevitably, no matter how well you think you've sealed them, your pan will probably look like this...

This was the second batch...I won't even show the first batch where I didn't use parchment paper and they burned a little bit. I'm sure you can imagine how horrible THAT pan will be to clean. Yeah...use parchment paper.

Happy Easter!

Kitchen Dreams

A friend mentioned I should check out The Handmade Home. Let me just say I fell in LOVE with her kitchen. Absolutely awesome! White cabinets, farmhouse sink, chalkboard fridge, screen door pantry, school house pendants, yellow and aqua accents...LOVE it!!! The best part, they did it all on their own. (The before also looks similar to our current kitchen, except that we have white appliances, so we could totally pull this off.)

images via The Handmade Home

So, I showed the pictures to Aaron and he actually liked it! Okay, you have to understand that it is hard for us to agree on anything when it comes to design and decorating. We actually even talked about it once with a counselor in our marriage enrichment program (Shout out to VOW!) Anywhoo...when I explained that they basically just painted the cabinets, added beadboard, and a farmhouse sink (with a few other small changes) he seemed impressed, like a "hmm-let-me-think-about-it-since-it's-not-as-impossible-as-I-thought" kind of impressed. (We repainted the cupboards in our last house, so we know the work it would mean.) Do you think I can convince him we need white cupboards?

Check out The Handmade Home to see before and afters and find more details on the whole redo.