Description
Whether it’s sharing a positive prophecy with a friend, proposing marriage, or passive-aggressively letting your roommate know they need to do their dishes, nothing does the job quite like a fortune cookie. The key is to work quickly; you’ll want to insert your fortunes and shape these light, crispy cookies right as they come out of the oven. Wearing gloves might be a good idea!
Ingredients
- Custom or prepared paper fortunes
- 1 large egg white
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- ⅓ cup all-purpose flour, or more as needed
Instructions
- Print and cut out 3-inch wide paper fortunes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper.
- Combine egg white
- sugar
- milk
- vanilla extract
- almond extract
- salt
- and butter in a bowl. Whisk until sugar is dissolved. Add flour and whisk until batter is smooth and falls off the whisk in ribbons.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of batter onto the prepared baking sheet; spread out into a 4-inch circle using the back of a spoon. Repeat once more.
- Bake first batch in the preheated oven until crispy and golden brown on the edges and still pale in the centers
- about 10 minutes.
- Quickly lift up cookies using a spatula. Add a fortune to each. Fold cookies in half
- pressing edges together lightly. Bend each cookie over the rim of the pan
- bringing ends down on either side. Lift up and curl ends towards each other. Place cookies in ramekins or muffin tins to hold their shape while they cool.
- Bake remaining batter in batches
- folding and shaping the cookies while hot. Remove from ramekins or muffin tins when completely cool.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 10