One of my annual Christmas traditions is to make Grandma's jello cookies. For the past several years, I have invited a couple of kids and/or students over to help make them. This year, living in Denver, my nephew got in on the fun!
It is a blessing to be able to stay connected to family and carry on traditions such as these. The cookies can be made any time of year, but I do them at Christmas and use lime and cherry or strawberry jello to get the red and green cookies, as pictured below.
The recipe is not a family secret, so I will share it here and ask if you have any traditional family Christmas recipes you enjoy making each year.
Jello Cookies
From the kitchen of Michelle J. Goff’s Grandma Cobb
1 cup sugar
1 3oz box Jello
3/4 cup shortening (or ½ cup shortening ¼ cup butter)
2 eggs
3 cups flour (divided)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Mix sugar and Jello.
Add shortening and eggs, blending well.
Sift dry ingredients (2 ½ cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp salt). Blend.
Gradually use remaining flour on rolling pin and on flat surface to roll out dough and cut cookies.
Roll out to 1/4” thickness. Cut and place on greased baking sheet.
Bake at 375o for 5-8min. Yield: 4 dozen cookies
Note: I usually make 1 recipe of lime cookies and 1 recipe of cherry or strawberry. The lime batter always tends to come out drier, so I use ¼ - ½ cup less of flour in the green cookies.
