fortune cookies

[Kelli Kerrigan]

Hello Everyone! Chinese New Year is next week and I'm looking for a recipe for fortune cookies, both regular and chocolate.
Does anyone have a recipe? And if you have ever made them, are they hard to form into shape?

[lorilei]

I once made these for a thematic party I threw back in college. They took a bit to get used to insofar as folding them was concerned, but they turned out very well. What's most impressive about them is how you can customize the messages inside http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

Fortune Cookies

1 cup flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
3 egg whites
3/4 teaspoon vanilla or 2 to 3 drops almond extract
3 1/2 tablespoons water
Butter for cookie sheet

1.Heat oven to 300 degrees.
2.Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
3.Add liquid ingredients and stir until the batter is smooth.
4.Line a cookie sheet with foil; butter foil, or spray with nonstick vegetable coating.
5.Drop level teaspoons (no more) of batter onto the cookie sheet, no more than 6 to a sheet.
6.Spread evenly to a 4 inch diameter.
7.Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the cookies begin to brown lightly.
8.Remove from the oven and immediately remove 1 cookie with a broad spatula.
9.Place a fortune in the center, fold in half and press back against ledge of counter or muffin pan to form fortune cookie shape.
10.Set cookies in muffin tin to keep their shape until cool.

Continue with the rest of the cookies without delay, as they harden fairly rapidly. If the cookies become too brittle to fold, return to oven for 2 to 3 minutes and try again. Repeat process with remaining batter.

Makes about 20 cookies.

Note: You can change the color of the cookies by adding a drop of food coloring with the liquid ingredients.

To make your fortunes, print or type your messages on a blank sheet of paper. For an extra nice look, you can use a sheet of paper with a rich texture or thicker bond. Cut each fortune no more than 3/4" wide and 3" long.


[This message has been edited by lorilei (edited 01-18-2001).]

[SueK]

Hi Kelly-
Here's one from Epicurious: http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=14123

Good luck!
Sue

[mightyh]

I remember making fortune cookies with my mom when I was young and we folded them in half than in half again over the rim of a glass to dry. They turned out beautifully--and were some of the best fortune cookies I have ever tasted.