Easy Sugar Cookies for any Holiday
Soft, delicious Jello Sugar Cookies! So fun to change the flavor to make them fit any holiday.
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How to Make Sugar Cookies with Jello
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- Cream the butter, oil, Jello mix, sugar, powdered sugar, and egg.
- In a separate bowl, combine all remaining dry ingredients. Mix well and slowly add to butter mixture until well combined. Start with 2 3/4 cups of flour. I had to add a little more to mine, but this may depend on your flour or your elevation.
- Roll dough into golf-ball-size balls and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet, or use a cookie scoop. (Itβs faster and gives similar results.)
- Put the 1/4 cup of sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
- Use the bottom of a glass and dip it into the sugar, and then press the sugar-coated glass bottom down on the cookie. This will give it a bit of a rough edge. Repeat for each dough ball.
- Bake cookies at 350 for 8 minutes. My first batch took 9 minutes, but the rest took exactly 8. You want them to just barely turn a light brown around the outside edge and bottom.
- Let cool, and then frost with frosting recipe below.
- FROSTING:
- Mix butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla extract with a hand mixer.
- Next, add in the milk or cream until nice and smooth. Add food coloring and mix until well combined.
- Frost the cookies when they are completely cooled.
- Enjoy!
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Fun cookies that can be made to fit any holiday or celebration.
Author: Maria, adapted from Swig Sugar Cookie Recipe
Recipe type: Cookies
Cuisine: Holiday
Serves: 24-36
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ⅓ cup oil, canola or veg
- 1 (3 oz) package lime jello + 1 tbsp sugar
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp baking powder
- pinch of baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2¾ β 3 cups flour
- ¼ cup granulated sugar for dipping glass in to smash dough balls down
- FROSTING:
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- pinch of salt
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1-2 tbsp milk or cream
- food coloring
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- Cream the butter, oil, Jello mix, sugar, powdered sugar, and egg.
- In a separate bowl, combine all remaining dry ingredients. Mix well and slowly add to butter mixture until well combined. Start with 2¾ cups of flour. I had to add a little more to mine, but this may depend on your flour or your elevation.
- Roll dough into golf-ball-size balls and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet, or use a cookie scoop. (Itβs faster and gives similar results.)
- Put the ¼ cup of sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
- Use the bottom of a glass and dip it into the sugar, and then press the sugar-coated glass bottom down on the cookie. This will give it a bit of a rough edge. Repeat for each dough ball.
- Bake cookies at 350 for 8 minutes. My first batch took 9 minutes, but the rest took exactly 8. You want them to just barely turn a light brown around the outside edge and bottom.
- Let cool, and then frost with the frosting recipe below.
- FROSTING:
- Mix butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla extract with a hand mixer.
- Next, add in the milk or cream until nice and smooth. Add food coloring and mix until well combined.
- Frost the cookies when they are completely cooled.
- Enjoy!
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If you chill these for about 20 minutes you can roll out the dough and cut it into shapes that hold very well in the oven! Thank you very much for sharing this recipe, it’s a hit at my house!
Great tip! Thanks Katie!
Oh man! Wish I would have seen these sooner…we will be making these next year for sure!
I keep forgetting to make them at St. Patricks Day too.
I couldn’t locate the frosting recipe, so, I used a cream cheese frosting that I made from scratch!
Thank you so much for bringing that to my attention. I have fixed it now. I am sure the cream cheese frosting worked great! Good call. π
Sorry, the “Frosting” recipe is not below the cookie recipe. Even though you said it was fixed. I’m looking forward to using it.
Hi, Vi. The frosting recipe is now included in the instructions. Thanks for letting us know.
I dont see the frosting recipe either π
Hi, Sarah. Thanks for letting us know. The frosting recipe is now included in the instructions.