Fortune Cookie Recipe - Bake some yourself!
Use our fortunes or make up your own.
Ingredients:
1 egg white
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup white sugar
Your favorite fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide.
A wooden kitchen board.
A large glass measuring cup to shape the cookies.
Muffin tins or egg cartons to hold the cookies while they cool.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Grease 3 cookie sheets.
Mix the egg white and vanilla until foamy but not stiff.
Sift the
flour, salt, and sugar and blend into the egg white mixture.
Place teaspoonfuls of the batter at least 4 inches apart on one of the
prepared cookie sheets.Start
with 2 or 3 to a sheet.
Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round
shapes about 3 inches in diameter. Be careful to make batter as round
and even as possible.
Do not make too many, because the cookie have to
be really hot to form them. Once they cool it is too late.
Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie has turned a golden color 1/2 inch
wide around the outer edge of the circle. The center will remain pale.
Be careful not to overbake.
While one sheet is baking, prepare the other.
Remove from oven and quickly move cookie with a wide spatula and place
upside down on a wooden board.
Quickly place the fortune on the
cookie, close to the middle and fold the cookie in half.
Place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed
edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside.
Place folded cookies into the cups of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold
their shape until firm.
It takes a bit of practice to get the hang of shaping the cookies. They cool quite quickly, and once they are cool they won't form. Enjoy!
