Make Personalized Fortune Cookies for Celebrations and Special Events

Have your fortunes already written on papers about 4 inches long and a half-inch wide.

INGREDIENTS:

1 egg white

1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 pinch salt

1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour

1/4 cup white sugar

NOTE: You can substitute any other flavoring for the vanilla extract, and add food coloring to the dough for holidays or special events.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. and butter 2 cookie sheets or cover them with parchment paper.

2. Mix the egg white and vanilla until it's foamy but not stiff.

3. In another bowl, mix the flour, salt, and sugar, and blend all this into the egg whites and vanilla.

4. Place teaspoonfuls of the batter on one of the cookie sheets, placing them at least 4 inches apart.

5. Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 3 inches in diameter. Be careful to make the batter as round and even as possible.

6. Don't make too many at a time because the cookies have to be really hot to be able to form them. Start with 2 or 3 to a sheet to begin with.

7. Bake for 5 minutes or until the cookies have a golden color around the edges (the center will still be pale looking)

8. While one batch sheet is baking, prepare the other cookie sheet.

9. Remove the cookies from the oven when done, quickly move a cookie with a wide spatula and place it upside down on a flat surface. Quickly place the fortune on the cookie, fold it in the middle to close, and fold the cookie in half.

10. Place the folded edge across the rim of a cup and pull the pointed edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside. Place the folded cookie into the cup of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold its shape until it's firm.

Quickly go back to the cookie sheet and fix the other cookies before they cool.

NOTE: You can make a BLACK fortune cookie by mixing equal parts of red, blue and yellow food coloring. Test the color before using.

Photo by MinivanNinja on flickr.

~~ A smile is your personal welcome mat.

~~ Courage is the mastery of fear - not the absence of fear.

~~ Good luck is the result of good planning. 

~~ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

~~ You are not illiterate.

~~ The one who snores will always fall asleep first.

~~ The secret of staying young is good health and lying about your age.

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Links to Funny Fortune Cookie sayings and Fortune Cookie messages.

Photo from flickr creative commons.

About 3 Billion Fortune Cookies are Made Each Year

Most of the world's fortune cookies are made for the United States market.

The largest fortune cookie manufacturer is Wonton Food Inc., which makes over 4.5 million cookies per day.

Information and photo from Wikipedia

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