The Most Important Ingredient: Prayer
Ask God to:

• Help the cookies show His love. 
• Bless the people who receive them. 
• Help them feel loved and cared for. 
• Make His presence known during the Kairos weekend. 

Even a simple prayer like, “Jesus, please use these cookies to show Your love,” is a wonderful way to pray. 

Kids Crossing families, we have a sweet opportunity to serve!

We’re partnering with Kairos Prison Ministry to provide homemade cookies for men and staff at Sussex State Prison.  These cookies are more than a treat. They’re a simple way to show kindness, dignity, and God’s love to people we may never meet. And the best part? Your kids can be part of it!

 Details
🍪 Baking the cookies
Cookie recipes

📦 Packing Your Cookies

1. Allow cookies to cool completely before packaging. 

2. Place 12 cookies in a quart-sized plastic zipper bag. 

3. Label each bag with the type of cookie. 

📅 Cookie Drop-Off—Sunday October 18
Please bring your cookies to the Kids Crossing check-in area on Sunday, October 18.

Thank you for helping us teach our children that serving others can be as simple as baking a batch of cookies, praying over them, and sharing God's love. What a sweet way for our families to be part of the Kairos ministry!

🍪 BAKE SOME LOVE
Choose from these approved cookie varieties:  Peanut Butter • Oatmeal •  Molasses •  Sugar • Classic chocolate Chip • Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies • Orange Spice • Lemon Cookies

Remember the Cookie Angel Guidelines:
✅ Cookies should be 2–2½ inches in diameter.
✅ Cookies should be no more than ½ inch thick.
✅ No icing, sugar, or other coating on the outside.
✅ No fruit or nuts.
✅ Cool cookies completely before bagging.
✅ Pack 12 cookies per quart-sized zipper bag.
✅ Label each bag with the cookie type.
✅ If baking more than 3 days before Sunday, October 18, freeze the cookies.

🥜 Peanut Butter Cookies 
Makes about 3 dozen

What You'll Need 

• ¾ cup creamy peanut butter 
• ½ cup Crisco shortening 
• 1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar 
• 3 tablespoons milk 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 1 egg 
• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 
• ¾ teaspoon salt 
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda 

Let's Bake!
1. Mix it up!
Combine peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix at medium speed until well blended.
2. Add the egg.
Mix until combined.
3. Make the dry mixture.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
4. Bring it all together.
Add the flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture and mix until just blended.
5. Get scooping!
Drop heaping teaspoons of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten each cookie slightly with a fork, making a crisscross pattern.
6. Bake: 375°F for 7–8 minutes, or until set.
7. Cool completely before packaging.

🌾 Chewy Oatmeal Cookies 
Makes about 2½ dozen

What You'll Need

• ¾ cup butter-flavored Crisco 
• 1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar 
• 1 egg 
• ⅓ cup milk 
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla 
• 3 cups quick-cooking oats 
• 1 cup all-purpose flour 
• ½ teaspoon salt 
• ½ teaspoon baking soda 
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon 

Let's Bake!
1. Start with the wet ingredients.
Combine Crisco, brown sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla. Mix at medium speed until well blended.
2. Mix the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, combine oats, flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
3. Combine.
Add the dry mixture to the Crisco mixture and blend well.
4. Scoop!
Place rounded tablespoons of dough onto a cookie sheet.
5. Bake: 375°F for 10–12 minutes, or until lightly browned.
6. Cool completely before packaging.

🍯 Molasses Cookies 
Makes about 2½ dozen

What You'll Need

• ¾ cup margarine or shortening 
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 1 egg 
• 4 tablespoons molasses 
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ginger 
• 2 cups all-purpose flour 
• 2 teaspoons baking soda 

Let's Bake!
1. Cream it together.
In a large bowl, cream the margarine or shortening with the sugar.
2. Add the flavor!
Add the egg and blend. Add molasses, cinnamon, and ginger. Mix well.
3. Add the dry ingredients.
Add flour and baking soda and blend.
4. Chill.
Cover the dough tightly and chill for 30 minutes or overnight.
5. Roll into balls.
Shape dough into small balls and place about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake: 325°F for 10–12 minutes.
7. Cool completely before packaging.

🍪 Sugar Cookies 
Makes about 5 dozen

What You'll Need 

• 1 cup margarine or butter (2 sticks), at room temperature 
• 1 cup vegetable oil 
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 1 cup powdered sugar 
• 2 eggs 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 4 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 

Let's Bake!
1. Mix the wet ingredients.
Beat together margarine, oil, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
2. Mix the dry ingredients.
Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
3. Combine.
Add the dry ingredients to the margarine mixture and mix well.
4. Scoop!
Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
5. Bake: 350°F for 8–10 minutes, until lightly brown around the edges. Watch closely—don't let them get too brown!
6. Cool completely before packaging.

🍫 Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies 
Makes about 3 dozen

What You'll Need

• ¾ cup Crisco shortening 
• 1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar 
• 2 tablespoons milk 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 1 egg 
• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 

Let's Bake! 
1. Mix the base.
Combine shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla. Mix until well blended.
2. Add the egg.
Mix well.
3. Mix the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
4. Combine.
Add the dry ingredients to the shortening mixture and mix until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
5. Scoop!
Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake: 375°F for: 

• 8–10 minutes for chewy cookies 
• 11–13 minutes for crisp cookies 

7. Cool completely before packaging.

🍫 Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies 
Makes about 4 dozen

What You'll Need

• 2 packages white or yellow cake mix 
• 1 cup cooking oil 
• 2 tablespoons water 
• 4 eggs 
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 
• 2 cups rolled oats 

Let's Bake! 
1. Preheat: 350°F.
2. Mix.
Blend cake mix, oil, water, and eggs.
3. Add the good stuff!
Stir in chocolate chips and oatmeal.
4. Chill.
Refrigerate dough for about 1 hour.
5. Scoop!
Drop level teaspoons of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake: 350°F for about 8 minutes. The tops should still look pale.
7. Cool.
Let cookies cool on the cookie sheet for about 1 minute, then transfer to a rack.
 
Please remember: If you use a gluten-free or sugar-free cake mix, clearly label each bag of cookies with the appropriate designation.

🍊 Orange Spice Cookies 
Makes about 48 cookies

What You'll Need

• 1 plain spice cake mix 
• ½ cup vegetable oil 
• ½ cup orange marmalade 
• 1 egg 
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger 

🍋 Lemon Cookies 
Makes about 48 cookies

What You'll Need

• 1 lemon cake mix 
• ½ cup vegetable oil 
• ½ cup lemon curd 
• 1 egg