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KAIROS Prison Ministry Program

Instructions for Baking Cookies

The gift of home-baked cookies is the way we show God’s Agape Love to the inmates. It is the only gift we may give them. It’s a small thing for us to bake cookies, and it means so much to the men who receive them. We need over 3,000 dozen cookies for the upcoming weekend. 

The cookies must be home-baked, from scratch, not purchased in a store. 

Please follow all recommendations carefully:

• Use your favorite recipe. Oatmeal, chocolate chip (chocolate chip and butterscotch chips are ok), molasses and gingersnaps seem to freeze best. Peanut butter is ok, but must be labeled due to nut allergies.

• It is recommended you use butter-flavored Crisco in your recipe. (Shortening freezes much better than margarine or oil.)

• All cookies should be uniform in size, 2" - 2 1/2". ( We don't want any hard feelings between inmates because some got larger cookies than others did.) It is recommended that you freeze cookies before packaging – this prevents them from sticking together when bagged. Bag one dozen to a quart-size, ziploc-style freezer bag. (Please be careful to follow these directions, so those who take the cookies to Florence do not have to re-package them themselves.)

• Please label each bag with cookie type. (A strip of masking tape works well.)

Please follow all requirements carefully:

• Do NOT make "no bake" or sugar cookies.

• Do NOT add any kind of nuts, raisins, poppy seeds or fruits to your cookies.

• Do NOT frost or sprinkle your cookies with anything. No powdered sugar, granulated sugar, sprinkles, etc.

• Do NOT make extremely moist cookies. (They don't travel well.)

Some of the cookies will by used by the inmates to give to a person they dislike. This is part of the forgiveness theme that runs throughout the weekend. There will be approximately 44 inmates attending this weekend. Cookies will be distributed throughout the prison to let everyone know there is such a thing as God’s Agape Love, even in prison. 3,000 dozen cookies is a lot of love. As you bake your cookies, please pray for the men who will be participating. The fact that you go out of your way to pray for them while baking this gift of cookies for them softens even the hardest hearts.

Please have your cookies baked, frozen, and packaged, then bring to the church office. Thank you so much for your gift of love and your commitment.

For additional information, please contact our church office at 520.297.2062 or e-mail us.