Personalized fortune cookies make a fun and unusual party favor for:
~~ Baby and Wedding Showers: All the guests could write messages to include in a cookie. Then the parents or bride and groom could open them up to read aloud. Or they could save them to read at the baby's first birthday or on their first wedding anniversary.
~~ An Activity at a Kids' Birthday Party: The fortunes could be already printed or let the kids write their own. Then they could insert them into their own cookies.
~~ Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, etc: Use food color to dye the cookies red and green.
~~ Graduation and Retirement Parties: Write congratulation and best wishes messages.
When you make your own fortune cookies, you can change the vanilla flavoring to another flavor of your choice, use food coloring to change their color, and even dip them in chocolate, caramel, or other coatings.
Many times people get together to make cookies for the holidays. How about getting together to make fortune cookies?
Comments
Angela, wonderful post. Great tutorial! so much fun to make fortune cookies, and so easy. I had a recipe from the magazine same ingredients except they call for powdered sugar. They were very crispy. Merry Christmas Angela to you and your family.
candy47 - It's easy to make fortune cookies, but a bit time-consuming because you can't make a whole batch at once like cookies. But they're fun and unusual.
I didn't know it would be so easy to make fortune cookies. Thanks for the recipe!
burntchestnut, Personalizing fortune cookies is a fun way, via happy fortunes, to spread cheer. I like the idea which you mentioned in your comment below about adding holiday aromas and flavors to homemade fortune cookies.
RuthCox - that sounds good. I wonder if adding ginger, cloves or cinnamon would be good, too, especially around Christmas.
It would be such fun to serve up homemade fortune cookies at holiday gatherings. I think I'd modify the recipe with beet juice for a tint of red and maybe cherry flavoring.