Easter.

For Easter this year I decided to make Resurrection cookies that I'd seen on my friend Taryn's blog. Simply they are meringues with nuts in them and each stage of the baking process has a verse from the Bible attached that connects it to a particular part of the crucifixion or resurrection. The idea is that the meringues bake overnight and are beautifully hollow like the empty tomb on Easter Sunday morning. SO here's what we did:

First we crushed the nuts into small pieces:
Then we separated the eggs and beat the egg whites and sugar together. The recipe said to beat for between 12 - 15 minutes but after about 9 minutes Abigail said "mom, there are blue flashes coming out of the mixer"! So we stopped there!

Then there was some licking:Some were a little over-enthusiastic!

Then we folded in the nuts and placed dollops of mixture onto a baking tray, after that it goes into the hot oven which is then turned off.

The next morning we removed the meringues from the oven and found that they were not hollow at all!!In fact they didn't taste very nice, had a slightly burnt flavour. At that point Niave announced "I don't like these boomerangs (boom-meringues!)" and went off to find some Easter eggs! Thankfully though, unlike our cookies, Jesus had risen and the tomb was empty on that first Easter Sunday morning.

Next year we'll try again, maybe by then I'll have a mixer that can mix for 12 minutes without exploding!