For those of you who celebrate (little update below)
April 6, 2007
Here is a cookie recipe just for you.
The Brutal Death of Our Savior Cookies
This recipe is only good for those who really want to drive home the meaning of Easter (or have a sense of humor).
Update: I am sorry that some of you found it not funny.
(Except for Kate. I don’t feel bad when people comment using a fake name for the sole purpose of stirring up trouble. It’s a small world, Teri. Can I call you Teri, since that is your name? All further comments from you will be deleted. )
I have long read the resurrection cookies recipe and have always thought they seemed a bit, uh uneccessarily cruel for children. So when I found this spoof on that recipe it cracked me up.
Here is a link to the original recipe, which aside from the sarcastic commentary is the same.
So if you think you are likely to be offended don’t go read it. Okay?
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I feel like a sinner for laughing.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:04 amI want to laugh but I fear there is a family out there right now who thinks this is a great teaching tool. Blah!
Okay, I’m laughing.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:54 amHow sad.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:21 amHa! Ha! Ha! (Please God, don’t smite me with a lightning bolt, amen) Ha!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:25 amI am so gonna forward this!!!! And link it on my blog!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:46 amI think it’s hilarious!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:56 amThat’s fantastic!! I’m giving this to my very very Catholic mum for Easter. She loved the zombie quote as well.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pmHa! That’s awesome.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:58 pmLOL. That’s just perfect…I also surfed over to Betty’s gift shop and got a big kick out of the ‘This Christian Voter is Crazy for Torture’ bumper sticker. Good stuff!
April 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pmIt is your fault. I laughed so hard I actually peed my pants. I hope you feel very very guilty.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:25 pmOh that is wicked funny.
*trots off to share*
April 6th, 2007 at 3:46 pmThis was TOO funny. I sent it to my mom, who cracked up as well.
Also, I thought of you when I saw these:
April 6th, 2007 at 3:59 pmGluten-Free Cheesecake
Lots More Gluten-Free Food
I agree, not funny.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:13 pmI don’t think it’s funny either. Normally you totally crack me up. But not today.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pmThis isn’t funny at all. It’s actually offensive. However, it is your blog, and I have always enjoyed reading it, and I will continue to read it, BUT I just wanted to let you know, that this was really tasteless and not necessary.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:20 pmhow very sad and disturbing.
But the Christian voters crazy for torture bumper sticker I may buy a stack of those.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:21 pmThank you for the edit, Chris. You are one cool chick. Have a wonderful weekend!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:35 pmOk, it gets a lot funnier when you see the “original” recipe. I’ve never seen that before. Kinda overkill, huh?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pmI was really confused by Betty’s website at first. THEN I figured out the links to Coulter’s paraphernalia were ads-by-google. HA! To put in my 2cents on the bumper stickers….I prefer the one that says “The real Jesus forgives your Jesus for being a greedy republican warmonger.”
I had an Aunt that would do recipes like that- EVERYTHING (especially the sarcastic commentary!!)
OMG Cracked me up… to know she wasn’t the only one out there who did
April 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pmAs a Christian who grew up Catholic and is now Protestant with no fewer than three people from my wedding party who are pastors now and two in-laws who are pastors, I think that this is…
…HILARIOUS!
I also think that this is hilarious:
http://www.threadless.com/product/368/Biblical_Disaster#zoom
And I take my faith pretty seriously. I just don’t take the Christian-industrial complex seriously. People, no one is going to hell for laughing at a spoof of a COOKIE RECIPE!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm“People, no one is going to hell for laughing at a spoof of a COOKIE RECIPE!”
No, I’ve done much worse things than that, and I am sure the ‘oh-so-offended’ ones have as well.
Happy Easter to ALL!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:59 pmGeesh, it is a cookie recipe! And pretty funny too! I even liked the original one b/c I found that to be completely over-the-top too.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:30 pmHAAA! I’m laughing and now, I am praying I won’t go to hell. But if I do I already read the DaVinci code and curdsed at a priest iunder my breath.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:07 pmHey Chris,
Apparently “Kate” stopped by my site for a visit too. So I came here to see if find her link and post here. Apparently I just missed it. She didn’t have much to say on my site.
By the way I spent a good hour time at Mrs. Bowers site laughing my *** off. Thanks for the Link!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pmIf I drank coffee any more, the commentary would have had me spraying over my laptop. That was hilarious! Thanks for the laugh, Chris.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pmHa! Happy Easter! I hope the Bunny is good to you.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:12 pmI laughed out loud several times.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:25 pmThanks for sharing!
Doesn’t look like I’m the only one who didn’t think it was funny . . . . .
April 6th, 2007 at 8:41 pmI thought that was hilarious! My sister in law and I sat here and laughed until we cried. Thanks for the laugh of the day!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:05 pmI am an aetheist but if you believe in god don’t you think she has a sense of humor? Just look at the platypus or that asian fruit that smells like rotting flesh but people still eat it or golf.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:08 pmI would reccomend to Teri that she should wear the cross around her neck and not up her arse…it is much more attractive that way. And I don’t think you get any extra heaven points for being a sour puss…tsk, tsk for judging people. That is gods job, right?
atheist….duh. Typing with one hand. I don’t believe in god AND I can’t spell.
sad, I know.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pmI’m with the “Too Damn Funny” crowd, and thanks for introducing me to Betty Bowers!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pmI thought it was hysterical. Happy Easter!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:53 pmOh my Lord was that funny. And I am a Sunday school teacher. So there, non funny people!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:56 pmAnother Sunday school teacher here who thinks it’s funny. I’ve come across the original recipe every year for the last several and I agree with you, Chris. It’s too much for kids. The original is inappropriate. The spoof is funny.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:03 pmThere’s more than one Kate out there and this one thinks it was Hi Larious. Thanks for introducing me to Betty! Enjoy your Zombie Day!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:11 pmI call it offensive.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:25 pmNew to the site and now totally devoted. That cracked me up. That was excellent.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:27 pmIs nothing sacred? This is why I stick with Hot Cross Buns.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:37 pmI agree that this was in poor taste. I enjoy reading your blog and I respect that you have no organized religion, please respect those that do.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:52 pmDear Chris,
I enjoy reading your blog and respect that you feel differently than I do, but demand that you never find humor in something I don’t. Otherwise Jesus gets angry, and the Easter Bunny forgets the jellybeans.
Love,
Mir
P.S. What’s it like to have so many readers that people feel entitled to get angry at you for linking to a parody? Is it fun? Because after reading through the comments, I’m thinking it might kind of suck.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:01 amHA! Funny. Funny, funny, funny. And so much tamer than I was expecting given the recipe name and backlash. Here I was expecting little cookies that involved a couple of crossed toothpicks and red food dye …..imagine my disappointment at finding only a recipe for hollow, tasteless, nut cookies served up with heaping pile of guilt.
And thanks for the link to a hilarious site.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:45 amYup, another perfect reason to visit daily. That was fan-tas-tic.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:44 amThis is one of your very funniest posts! Thank you! Barbara who is forwarding it to 1 sibling who is a priest, 2 uncles, also priests, several preistly cousins, a couple of renagade sisters(the nun sort-1 of whom still wears a habit) and the rest of my huge RC family. I guarentee that all will laugh(some somewhat secretly). Yo9u just made my/our night. This is soooo much better than the original. You are to be congragulated on finding this. The original is somewhat frighteneing, but the parody id priceless.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:03 amNow if only I had read and spell checked! : )
April 7th, 2007 at 2:04 amyou.rock
that is all
no it isnt
you really really really rock and WHERE do you find this stuff?
April 7th, 2007 at 3:35 amjust hilarious!! best laugh I have had in a long time ( apart from everyday when I read your blog). Ignore all the naysayers and keep it up!
April 7th, 2007 at 5:56 amWhat a lot of emotion over the old “forgotten cookie” recipe. I’ve made these for years (without the born again drama). The cookies are actually just meringues with nuts. Throw some butterscotch chips in and you have a nice butter pecan thing going on. We generally do them as part of our Christmas baking using up the left over egg whites. Probably not something you should be getting into with the allergy thing going on anyway Chris
April 7th, 2007 at 7:44 amHappy Holidays
I loved the zombie story. I sure miss those days!
mak
My daughter has not recovered from someone telling her that the red on a candy cane represents Jesus’s blood. She is 4 and does not know what represents means. I hope she is able to laugh about it someday or at least lick a candy cane.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:21 amThanks for the good laugh.
Can someone email me the original post? I love everything you write and it’s so hard to offend me!
April 7th, 2007 at 10:31 amO M G!
People are freaks!
Personally I love it Chris and this Kate reads all the time and does not feel that she has the right to tell anyone what they should and should not write on THEIR OWN BLOGS!
I agree with the comments about the women with the crosses up their asses to pull them out and wear them around their neck and my goodness stop judging others!
Didn’t their mother’s ever tell them if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all!
April 7th, 2007 at 10:44 amThis made me laugh so hard that my husband had to come over and see what was so dang funny…and then he laughed! AND-we both love Jesus!!! A sense of humor is needed if you want to enjoy your life! Be like Chris, procrastinate and laugh while you are doing it!! love your blog!
April 7th, 2007 at 11:02 amp.s. my fave part was breaking open the bottle of wine and eating all the cookies!!!
April 7th, 2007 at 11:04 amHa, I wonder what “Donald” (past commentor), the pastoral counselor, thinks now?
April 7th, 2007 at 11:08 amOh could someone please, please, please cut and paste it and send it to me? My stupid computer fire wall blocks that site. My 7 yo has been barfing/diarrea for 5 solid days, and now the 4 yo just started with it. I NEED some humor people!
April 7th, 2007 at 11:22 amWell my heathen ass obviously thought it was snort worthy.
According to most fundies (not the nice normal Christ followers just so you know) I’m going to “Hell” anyway.
At least this way I’m going laughing and now with some cookies.
I definately have to link to this. Thanks for the laugh.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:45 amNot me Teri!! It wasn’t me that commented using a fake name, please don’t block me.
I would use my real name.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:20 pmFunny, funny is all I’m gonna say. Am I going to hell yet?
April 7th, 2007 at 2:00 pmOh, and get to the shopping and housecleaning. Ha Ha
Oh and I totally love your site and your humor. Happy Easter to you and the family.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:04 pmI found it neither offensive nor particularly funny. But so what? I’m the last person who’d want you to be more careful about what you post. I’ve been catching up on your blog this evening after not being able to access it for a couple months (long, stupid computer story–let’s just say, I’ve finally switched browsers after a long period of stubborn resistance) and girl, have I missed my daily dose of Chris and Co. Thanks for the giggles.
P.S. I’m sorry about your allergy trials. What a misery.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:52 pmLOVE IT!! Passing it along to my heathen friends, who will also love it
April 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pmI’m a devout Catholic (really!), and found this to be hilarious!
April 7th, 2007 at 7:29 pmYou are obviously a heathen and damned to hell forever. But I don’t believe in hell, so I suppose you’re off the hook, at least in my mind.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:21 pmI found it wickedly funny buy said a hail Mary just in case.
**Happy Easter**
April 7th, 2007 at 8:33 pmI’m not sure how anyone could think this was anything but a spoof, but I guess there are many people out there without a funny bone in them. I just can’t figure out why they even read your blog if they are without a sense of humor! I loved it and I am a proud christian to boot!
April 8th, 2007 at 6:57 pmcookies much improved with addition of mini (vay vay important, must be MINI)chocolate chips. happy Easter.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:44 pmDear Chris,
From now on, every thing you write must be sensitive to the beliefs, morals, values, and ethics of every single solitary person who coul d every possibly read your blog now and in the foreseeable future. Otherwise you are just being an insensitive meany! Geez, what you do think this is, your PERSONAL blog where you write your PERSONAL feelings and opinions? Sheesh!!
Love,
Elizabeth
P.S. You know I’m joking, right??
April 8th, 2007 at 11:14 pmDear Kate–
Every time you scare a child with these really inappropriate “lessons” (candy cane striped with blood, beating pecans is like beating someone), the devil tortures a kitten. FYI.
Shame, fear and misinformation. Those things are not Christian education.
Sincerely,
jm
April 9th, 2007 at 9:56 amThis was “Sacrelicious”!
April 9th, 2007 at 4:02 pmOh Chris, the ‘real’ recipe is far funnier than the spoof. Is that person SERIOUS? How is leaving a cookie in the oven overnight ’sad’ for a child and how can it be compared to the death of Jesus anyway? HELLO People you’re talking about food! Dear oh dear oh me….takes the fun out of fundamentalism. :0)
April 9th, 2007 at 11:39 pmHilarious! ’tis humor people…lighten up…says I ducking just in case!
April 10th, 2007 at 12:33 amSo - the original IS over the top as written. But I think just opening up the oven to a hollow cookie might be a good point for a young child. Beating the dough? Over the top.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:52 amRe: the original recipe. Eggs are for life? Sounds a little pagan to me, don’t you think?
The Betty Bowers one was funny
April 10th, 2007 at 2:59 pmSelf-admitted Christian, and I snorted with laughter knowing the original recipe.
Sheesh people. Don’t take life so seriously. The first time my very Southern Baptist mother saw TBN, she thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit. Sometimes TBN is funnier to me than SNL. But I’ve always been a little jaded.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:47 pmFunny!
I’m new and happy to find you. All things considered, you didn’t get as many self-righteous humorless prigs as you might have, really. Luckily the members of my first church don’t believe in the internet…
April 11th, 2007 at 12:22 pmI just found you this week and I’m CRAZY about you! I think I might even have a little blogger crush!
As a Southern Baptist pastor’s wife (with her nose pierced - I know - I like to buck the norms), I’ll note that this is right up there with leaving some of the eggs empty during the egg hunt to represent the empty tomb. “You see, children, God loves you so much that He sent His son, Jesus, and because of that, you don’t get as much candy as other children. Now, let’s pray!”
Of course, I’ve been flamed for complimenting Rosie and hacking on Believers in the same post before. Isn’t if fun to get roasted on your own blog! Whoo! Hoo!
April 12th, 2007 at 2:37 pmThat is my new absolute favorite website. Thank you.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:21 amCum Filled Pussy…
Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)…
August 29th, 2007 at 4:59 pm