Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the oldest Christian tradition and is considered to be the most important date on the Christian calendar. Easter marks the end of the 40-day period of Lent, which is a traditional time of fasting that begins on Ash Wednesday. The week before Easter is known as Holy Week. This begins on Palm Sunday and includes Maundy Thursday (the day of the Last Supper), Good Friday (the day of Christ’s crucifixion) and Holy Saturday (the time between the crucifixion and resurrection). Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon following the March equinox, so the date changes every year.

I’ve been asked many times why I’ve never done a set for Easter, so I thought I’d explain why now. I actually grew up going to a Federated church every Sunday and participated in youth group through high school. Sometime after college I made the choice to no longer associate with Christianity and found my path in spirituality instead. Doing sets on other religions has been easier for me because I have no personal connection to these holidays and could very much start from scratch. This year I finally decided to do an Easter set (in fact I did two: one cutesie Easter bunny and this set about the meaning of Easter) and while I have personally gone down a different path, I still wanted this set to respectfully represent the true meaning of Easter and what felt most authentic to me was to channel the Easter of my childhood. Our youth group always hosted the Easter sunrise service, so my memories of Easter are filled with frigid early morning Vermont sunrises, powerful worship songs, community, Palm Sunday cross making, Easter egg hunts and the budding of new life in the ground.

Huge shoutout to my dear friends and consultants for this set Gina and Emily. Gina’s passion for and devotion to Christianity & the Catholic religion helped me to see this holiday (and religion) in a new light. Emily’s friendship is one of the best things to come out of my time in youth group, and it was a joy to relive moments of that past with her and I tackled this set. Thank you Gina and Emily 🤍

Real time tutorial with voiceover for this set of royal icing cookies: [ Ссылка ]

RECIPES & CONSISTENCIES:
How to make royal icing (step by step): [ Ссылка ]
ROYAL ICING CONSISTENCIES (step by step): [ Ссылка ]
Cookie recipe: [ Ссылка ]

Techniques covered in this video:
- Two consistency outline and flood
- White crackle on cookie
- Simple wood grain effect
- Bear technique
- Cookie moss
- Puffy lettering
- Simple watercolor
- Painted texture
- Splatter technique

INSTAGRAM: [ Ссылка ]

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SPECIFIC PRODUCTS FOR THIS SET:

Cutters -
Tomb: Modern tomb in standard 4" [ Ссылка ]
He is Risen: standard 4" [ Ссылка ]
Holy: standard 3.5" [ Ссылка ]
Crocus: standard 3.5" [ Ссылка ]
Shawl cross: standard 4" [ Ссылка ]
(plain cross is hand cut)
Egg: [ Ссылка ]
Leaf: [ Ссылка ] (affiliate link)

Music: [ Ссылка ] "Phoenix Rising"

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Scribe: [ Ссылка ] (affiliate link)

Amazon shop of my favorite things: [ Ссылка ]
*I do receive a small commission from items purchased from my shop. I only include items I personally own and love!*

The Sugar Art -- [ Ссылка ] -- my favorite for:
*** use code THEGRACEFULBAKER15 for 15% off your order from The Sugar Art!
- Sterling Pearls (metallic dusts like gold): [ Ссылка ]
- DiamonDust (edible glitter!!): [ Ссылка ]
- Elite color (powdered food coloring for painting and dry dusting): [ Ссылка ]
- Master Elites (highly pigmented powders for coloring icing...a MUST for red and black!!): [ Ссылка ]
***Please note: my LEMON royal icing recipe does NOT work with all of the Master Elite colors due to the acidity of the lemon juice -- a VANILLA (non-lemon) recipe is best used for the Master Elite pinks, otherwise I use all of their other colors with my lemon recipe (I use Wilton pink with my lemon recipe)

Dehydrator: [ Ссылка ] (affiliate link)

Tipless bags: Borderlands Bakery - [ Ссылка ]

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