Resurrection Roll Recipe – Easter Tradition

This printable Resurrection Roll recipe with Bible verses will make this delicious Easter Sunday tradition come alive year after year.

Happy almost Easter, friends! Have you heard of Resurrection Rolls?

This tradition is not unique to us, but the bottom line is that it is a fun and delicious tradition to symbolize the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter morning.

I am sharing our pics from last year to inspire or remind any of you who want to start this Easter family tradition THIS year!

My kids have already mentioned how they can’t wait to make Resurrection Rolls for breakfast on Easter Sunday.

Be sure to print off the recipe and story tutorial to walk your kids or grandkids through the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ because what a thing it is to celebrate hope in a LIVING God!

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Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Not only is telling the story of the most important moment in history FUN with this tradition, but these rolls are also DELICIOUS. Win. Win.

Now for the best part.

He is not here. . .

HE IS RISEN! And now we get to EAT the resurrection rolls. Yes and amen. [insert emoji praise hands here]

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 1: On a floured surface separate the crescent dough into individual triangles.

It was now the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth
hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’
When he had said this, he breathed his last.
John 23:44-46

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 2: Dip 3 mini marshmallows in the cinnamon-sugar mixture and place on a single crescent.

Everything that is written by the prophets about the son of man will be fulfilled…They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him.  On the third day he will rise again. 
John 18:31-33

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 3: Fold over the dough and pinch along the sides

Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them {Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus} wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.
John 19:40

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 4: Roll into a ball and use your hands to rub some of the cinnamon mixture over the dough ball pinching together all seams. Repeat.

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.  Because it was the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
John 19:41-42  

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 5: Place all the rolls onto a greased baking pan. Bake at 350F for 10-12 mins.

They {Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James} went to the tomb and found the stone rolled away, but when they entered, they did not find the body of Jesus.
Luke 24:2-3

Resurrection Roll Easter Sunday Tradition

Step 6: Cut in half and notice the marshmallows have disappeared!

Why do you look for the living among the dead?  He is not here; HE HAS RISEN!
Luke 24:5-6

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