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Ingredients

¾ cup shortening ½ cup white sugar 1 (3 ounce) package fruit flavored Jell-O® mix 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ⅓ cup white sugar for decoration

Nutrition Info

75.5 calories carbohydrate: 10.1 g cholesterol: 7.8 mg fat: 3.5 g fiber: 0.2 g protein: 1.1 g saturatedFat: 0.9 g servingSize: - sodium: 66.2 mg sugar: 3.5 g transFat: : - unsaturatedFat: : -

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, cream the shortening, sugar, and flavored gelatin. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt, stir into the creamed mixture.
Roll cookies into 1 inch balls place them on an unprepared cookie sheet, and flatten with a cookie stamp dipped in sugar. If you don 't have a cookie stamp, flatten cookies with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until set but not brown.

3 to 4 dozen

These can be any flavor you want, the kids go nuts for them