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About the Recipe: Fortune cookies are very crisp and served with a piece of paper tucked inside, that contain a “fortune” message. No one is sure of the origin of these cookies, but now in many Chinese restaurants, fortune cookies are served after dinner. Everyone has fun opening them up, sharing the fortune messages, and of course, eating the crunchy cookies.
Shaping the Cookies:
After baking and removing from the oven at peak of perfection:
- Work quickly before the cookies cool and harden.
- Use a thin-edge metal spatula to carefully loosen the cookie from baking mat and quickly flip cookies upside down.
- Place the fortune slip of paper in the middle of the cookie and then loosely fold into a half circle. Do not flatten it completely.
- Place them over the rim of a cup, drape the half-folded cookie, circular side up. and gently bend the corners down to create the fortune cookie shape.
- Immediately place the warm cookie into a muffin tin or on the edge of a bowl to help maintain the shape during cooling.
- Repeat the process with remaining batter, baking about 4 cookies each time.
Cook’s Note: About Ingredients: Some recipes add ¾ teaspoon cornstarch to make pastry flour. They also use 1/4 teaspoon (each) vanilla and almond extract, other recipes added 1-1/2 Tablespoons oil or even added 1 teaspoon sesame oil for a sesame flavor. You can decorate the cookies, dipping the ends in chocolate or use sprinkles. We served our cookies plain.
For a convenient Fortune Cookie Kit: that contains cookie ingredients, edible ink/pen, small mat, and preprinted fortune tags. See: https://globalgrub.com/
Yield: about 12 fortune cookies
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Fun Fortune Cookies
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