Snickerdoodles for the Dead

A snickerdoodle is much like the Gospel of Jesus Christ: once you taste of its buttery goodness, there’s no turning back. Those of us fortunate to be alive today in the latter days have all savored this cinnamon and sugar confectionary. But what about our ancestors who lived before the snickerdoodle? We know that they’ve moved on from this temporal world and no longer have corporeal bodies which would allow them to chew, taste, and swallow.

This recipe/ritual will enable our forefathers and mothers who are locked in spirit prison to taste of the fullness of the everlasting snickerdoodle.

Please follow carefully the following instructions:

Ingredients:

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup shortening, butter flavor
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
2 ¾ cupsflour, all-purpose
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ tablespoon consecrated olive oil

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Mix thoroughly in a bowl the butter, shortening, sugar and eggs.
3. Blend in flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt.
4. Chill.
5. Shape rounded teaspoonfuls into balls.
6. *Roll in sugar mixture leaving a small area uncoated.
7. Anoint baking sheet with consecrated oil.
8. Place uncoated side down on baking sheet two inches apart.
9. Slightly flatten balls with a glass.
10. Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until set.
11. Remove from baking sheet immediately.
12. **Perform snickerdoodle-by-proxy ritual.

*Sugar mixture: 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon nutmeg. Mix ingredients in a small bowl.

**Melchizedek priesthood holder lays hands upon a worthy member and recites the following prayer:

(First, middle, and last names of snickerdoodle eater), having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I feed this snickerdoodle unto you, for and in behalf of (First, middle, and last names of deceased), who is dead, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

Upon completion of prayer, Melchizedek priesthood holder will place a sanctified snickerdoodle in the worthy member’s mouth. It is then up to the deceased to accept or reject the cookie, but your job is done.

Don't forget to thank Heavenly Father for the gift of snickerdoodles!