The best Jello Sugar Cookies - so easy and colorful!
Melt in your mouth sugar cookies made by adding jello for color and flavor, they are fun, and delicious. Make them with whatever flavor you desire. Our favorites are strawberry, lemon, and lime.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Butter softened
- 1/2 cup crisco shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 ounce package Jell-O gelatin any flavor
- 2 whole Eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
prepping sugar cookies
- 1 cup sugar for rolling dough in
- 24-36 Hershey's Kisses if you are going to do the Hug Cookies
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Blend butter, Crisco, sugar, and Jell-O together well with mixer, approximately 5 minutes on medium high speed. Add eggs and vanilla, mix well. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to wet ingredients. Mix until just combined, scrape sides of bowl and give the mixer another turn or two.
- The original Jell-O Sugar Cookies: scoop tablespoon of dough out, roll into ball, roll ball in sugar, place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet.
- Hug Cookies: ball dough into smaller balls (size of a bouncy ball) roll in sugar, place on parchment lined baking sheets bake for 8-10 minutes, let cool on baking sheet when still warm push an unwrapped Hershey's Hug Candy down into cookie.
- Cut out Cookie: after mixing dough together, place on a well four surface, sprinkle with flour, roll out to 1/4 inch thickness, using cookie cutters cut out shapes, transfer to parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely on baking sheet before transferring.
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