Bear N Mom Recipes - Cookies - Crisp Pastel Cookies

This little gem of a cookie gets it's flavor and coloring from the jello that you use to make these. This recipe was almost lost because I found my stepdaughter's hand written recipe stuck between pages in Nunny's auxiliary cookbook and the ink was hard to read because the paper had picked up a grease spot.

Lisa brought this recipe home from a high school cooking class and we have made them ever since.

• 3/4 cup shortening (butter)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 pkg (3 oz.) fruit jello
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp salt

Heat Oven to 400°

Mix thoroughly shortening, sugar, jello, eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients

Roll dough into 3/4" balls. and place 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.

Flatten each with the bottom of a glass dipped in either same color jello or sugar

Bake for 6 to 8 minutes. Makes 4 dozen.

You can enhance the color with food coloring but I prefer to roll the cookie in colored sugar to get that added glitter to the cookie.