Fruity Sugar Cookie Recipes

These sugar cookie recipes would be a perfect addition to the Christmas cookie menu 

Mandarin Orange Cookie Treat

This recipe makes 8 quick fruit-flavored cookies. No need to bake these orange-filled cookies since they are made with crushed shortbread cookies. This recipe is best if you have leftover sugar cookies and you have no idea what to do with them, crushed these leftovers and turn them once again into yummy cookies. Serve as a sweet, cold dessert.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups buttermilk (cold)
• 518 ozs vanilla instant pudding mix
• 12 ozs whipped topping (thawed)
• 22 ozs mandarin oranges (drained)
• 1612 ozs fudge (striped shortbread cookies coarsely crushed)

Procedure:

Whisk together buttermilk and pudding mix in a large mixing bowl for 2 minutes. Let mixture rest for several minutes to set. Stir in oranges and whipped topping.  

Cover bowl and keep in refrigerator to chill for one hour. Fold in crushed cookies.

Serve cold!

Lemon-Lime Crunch Cookies

Enjoy these sugar-coated cookies with the touch of lemon and lime. These cookies are made up of flaked coconut, lemon flavored cake mix plus some lemon juice, grated lemon and lime peel which add fantastic citrus flavors!

This recipe makes 18 pieces of sugar cookies.

Ingredients:

12 cup flaked coconut

2 tsps lemon peel (grated)

2 tsps lime peel (grated)

2 cups whipped topping

2 eggs

2 tbsps topping mix (whipped)

1 tsp lemon juice

18 14 ozs cake mix (lemon)

Confectioners’ sugar

Procedure:

Pulse together coconut, lemon peel and lime peel in a food processor or blender. Cover and mix until finely shredded for about 30 seconds. Set aside mixture. Prepare the cake mix by whisking together whipped topping, eggs, dry topping mix and lemon juice in a deep and large mixing bowl.

Combine cake mix and reserved coconut mixture. Mix thoroughly. Have spoonfuls of the mixture and drop each into a bowl of confectioner’s sugar to coat nicely. With your clean bare hands, shape each into cookie balls and then arrange over the greased baking sheets, 2 inches away from each other.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until cookie edges appear golden brown.

Cool on wire rack.

Serve warm.