Food Friday: Resurrection Rolls

Our daughter mentioned Resurrection Rolls the other day.  I had heard of them but had forgotten about them.  This seems like a meaningful Easter treat.

There is a story that goes with these rolls if you want to make them with your children or grandchildren.  Read down a ways in this post from YummyHealthyEasy blog to teach the children about the true meaning of Easter. 

The ingredients are simple:

Crescent Roll tube
Large marshmallows
Cinnamon
Sugar
Water or melted butter
Lined baking sheet

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Open crescent rolls and lay out on baking sheet.

Dip large marshmallow in water or melted butter then roll the marshmallow in a bowl of cinnamon sugar. I used 1/3 cup granulated sugar and 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon that I stirred up very well.

Place the marshmallow in the large end of one crescent roll and start rolling towards the pointed end, being sure to completely enclose the marshmallow in the dough.  PINCH THE DOUGH AROUND THE MARSHMALLOW VERY VERY WELL!  Otherwise it will certainly spew out and be unsightly.

Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.  I only baked for 12 minutes but think it would have been better to cook longer to give a sturdier roll.  Or perhaps a burned roll...

The first time I made them I used elderly mini-marshmallows that were all stuck together, thinking it would give the same effect as one large marshmallow.  Not.  Don't do it.  I am tossing the rest of the bag tomorrow. I feel the need to watch the bag a few more times to get it into my head that it was a bad idea to use something that already was a losing proposition...

So, these are unsightly on the pan but hopefully when they are cool they will firm up and not be so nasty looking.  We are going to use them as part of a devotional thought at the mission office today.  We will see how THAT goes.

NOTE TO SELF:  It would probably be better to make homemade crescent rolls dough to make these.  Ersatz crescent rolls really are not very good.   I have not made these rolls but I plan to once I get off the relatively serious flour fast.  (It is not really a totally serious flour fast because when I have tummy troubles and can't eat anything else, a couple of soda crackers can help a little bit...)

If you make these Resurrection Rolls with or for your family, I hope you like them.  A dear friend introduced me to them back in 1972 but she used rolled out dinner roll dough she had made and she did not call them Resurrection Rolls.  Her large family LOVED them.