Want to express your feeling to your loved one? This cookies can be as surprise gift with surprise message.
I made these cookies for welcoming the year 2015. It was fun!
Fortune cookies recipe:
Ingredients:
2 egg whites
50 gr sifted powdered sugar or icing sugar
30 gr melted butter or vegetable oil
50 gr sifted flour
1 tsp sifted corn starch
1 pinch of salt
Cooking method:
1. Prepare your personalized message (If it is too long, fold it).
2. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F.
3. Prepare the cookies template. Draw two circles (8 cm) on parchment paper.
4. Combine flour and corn starch.
5. In a mixing bowl, whip egg whites, sugar and salt until frothy. Then add vegetable
oil or melted butter then mix well.
6. Gradually add flour then mix well.
7. Turn the parchment paper (cookies template paper) over. Spoon 1 tbsp of batter into
center of template and spread evenly.
8. Bake for about 5 minutes, until it´s edges turn into golden brown.
9. Remove from the oven.
Work fast;
- lift up the cookie from the parchment paper,
- place folded message in the center of the cookie,
- bring sides up and pinch together,
- immediately bend the cookie over the edge of a cup, to create the fortune cookie shape.
11. Repeat all the processes (spreading the batter, baking, stuffing and bending) until
all the batter is used.
12. If you want the cookies to be more brownish and crispier, you can bake the cookies
again in preheated oven (150°C/302°F) for 5-8 min.
13. Store in airtight container (last to 7 days).
store in an airtight container
Note:
Fortune cookies must be shaped while they are hot. Once the cookie hardens, you
cannot fold it into the shape.