Mom Wilkins' Famous Jello Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups margarine
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 6 oz package of jello (lime or cherry)
  • 1/4 t. baking powder
  • 3 1/2 cups of flour

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400. Cream margarine, and blend in egg and sugar. Add vanilla and jello, and blend. Blend in dry ingredients. Optional- chill for 15 minutes. Roll out into smallish round balls, and press with fork or cookie stamp. Bake for 8 minutes. Makes about 60 2" cookies.

As I remember, this dough was fun with cookie cutters, too. Pre-chilling the dough is a must if using with cookie cutters. I still make a lime and cherry (green and red) batch of these very unhealthy cookies every December. Christmas just isn't the same without them.

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