Cooking with Obedience
by Erica in Louisiana
 

I just did this lesson on and did something kind of fun. At the beginning, for an attention getter I told the girls, y'all know how much I love to cook, and y'all know I can make some dang good cookies.  Well, I wanted to make you some today, but I just didn't have time.  So, I am going to just mix them up right now and we can bake them while we have our lesson. They were all pretty excited at this point. I told them, "Man, I hope have everything I need to make these good cookies."  (I had a brown paper bag filled with all my ingredients).  I got out the recipe card and said, "I forgot my glasses (I don't even wear glasses, and they didn't catch on) Ariel, could you read this recipe off to me and I'll follow your directions. So I set up just like I am going to make cookies but when she reads off the "recipe" ( it was just a fake one I made up) I dig in my bag and say, "Yep! Okay! I got that!" 

The twist is this:

1/2 oil = motor oil
2 eggs = i just threw the whole eggs in shell and all
1/2 sugar = powdered sugar
1c flour = silk flowers i cut up
1 tsp salt = garlic salt
1 bag chips = potato chips

The girls were so shocked!  The point is that our Heavenly Father has given us a "recipe" for the lives he wants for us, and also gives us the ingredients to make our lives good, but if we don't follow the counsel he has given and we make up our own ingredients and recipe then it doesn't turn out as He intended.

Play it up.  The girls are going to just gross out and laugh. I said things like, "Oh man...this IS motor oil huh?  Well, what does the recipe said? it says just oil?  Well, this all I have so it will have to work."  Or, "I think the shells will give it a nice texture, don't you?  Oh you think I should use CHOCOLATE chips?  Hmmmm, that does make more sense! Oh well.  I only brought these corn chips, they will have to do. You may want to have some REAL cookies for them too later in the lesson or afterwards.