Fruity Spritz Cookies made with Jell-O
"This recipe came from a magazine page in Good Housekeeping, and I remember making them in the early '80's with my mom, so this recipe is at least that old. I've made this with several different Jell-o flavors and they've all been good. If you have trouble handling the dough in the cookie press chill it a bit."
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- Ready In:
- 1hr 13mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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60 cookies
ingredients
- 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
- 1 1⁄2 cups butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 (3 ounce) package jell-o gelatin, any flavor
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- additional Jello gelatin, to sprinkle with (or other cookie decorations)
directions
- Sift flour with baking powder.
- Cream butter.
- Gradually add sugar and gelatin, cream well after each addition.
- Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
- Gradually add flour mixture, mixing after each addition until smooth.
- Use cookie press to process dough, droping onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Sprinkle with Jell-o or decorate as desired.
- Bake at 400 degrees, about 13 or 14 minutes, or until golden brown at edges.
- This can vary depending on your oven, in mine these will be done in about 6-8 minutes- to be sure keep an eye on the first sheet to go in so they don't burn.
- Store in loosely covered container.
- Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
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Reviews
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Very good - Got this recipe from an old Wisconsin Gas Cookbook from the 50's - decided to give them a whirl and glad I did. -
I just made these for our annual Christmas cookie making that we do for gifts. I made the mistake of using 3/4 Cup of powdered sugar (I was reading another recipe oops), so I added 3/4 Cup of white sugar not knowing how it turn out as well as another 1/4 cup of flour. I also chilled the dough for about 10 minutes. They ended up turning out very well. I used the lime jello to make green christmas trees and they were delicious. I will try this with a cherry or something for the red. My kids loved them too! I will definitely be making these every year from now on! -
This recipe did what I needed-- gave me good, red cookies for Christmas trays. Done in 5-7 minutes (yes, I burnt the first pan even with all the warnings given in other reviews). I used Cherry jello and the flavor was stronger than I thought- but still good. Need to refrigerate the dough between putting batches in the oven- mine got too soft and the last pans had much bigger cookies (oozed out of the press). -
I had high hopes for these, since I'd had them when I was young. I used cherry Jell-O with almond flavoring. The dough tasted great, but when these cooked, the flavor was minimal. I used a manual press and could not get them to stick to the pan (yes, that was me), so I cut 1/4" coins. The first batch charred to a crisp after 8 minutes; I lowered the temp to 375 and cooked for 5 minutes and they came out okay. This recipe makes a ton of cookies; I still have dough left. -
These came out pretty good. The dough was a little too stiff for my SuperShooter, but I'm sure with a manual cookie press they would be fine. I used orange jello and the color didn't really show up at all. You can taste a very light orange flavor and this is a nice change. I'd like to try these again with a red flavor to see how they come out. Thanks!
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Tweaks
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This recipe was fine. It came to my attention because someone was posting in the Community Forum, asking for help because the dough would not stick to their baking sheet. I cross referenced this spritz cookie recipe with another one I've used successfully in the past and added 3T. of milk to this one and substituted the vanilla with almond extract. I couldn't really taste the fruit flavoring much, but it gave the cookies a fun, light tint.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
bballtrish
Brandon, FL
I live in sunny Florida and I work as a COBOL programmer. I have 3 children and we are pretty active. Some of us also play basketball as you can probably tell from my nickname.
