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Homemade Fortune Cookies

February 16, 2009 at 10:18 am (Tid Bits) (baking, cookie, cooking, fortune, fortunes, gift, handmade, home, homemade, house, idea, Inspiration, love, messages, present, recipe, valentine's day)

I read on-line how to make my very own homemade fortune cookies recently.  I thought this would make a cute, personalized gift for Tony for Valentine’s Day.  They turned out pretty well, so I thought I would share this little recipe with you.

You will need:

• 1 Egg
• 1/4 Cup Sugar
• 2 1/2 Tablespoons Butter
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 2/3 Cups Flour
• 1/2 Cup Milk

Start by making 20 paper strips with fortunes or messages written on them.  Then:

• Cream together egg and sugar.
• Beat in butter and vanilla.
• Mix flour and baking powder together and pour into mixture.  Mix.
• Beat in milk.
• Heat nonstick pan on medium-low.
• Drop a spoonful or batter onto pan and form into a circle.
• Cook until lightly brown, about 30 seconds.
• Flip with spatula and cook another 5 to 10 seconds.
• Lift cookie and insert fortune with first cooked side on the outside, and fold in half, and hang over a rim or edge of a glass.
• When cookies are cooled, lay on cookie sheet and bake at 250 for 15-18 minutes.

Here I am in the process. Some of the cookies are hanging on the edge of the bowl. This is a very good technique for forming the cookies!

Overall, the recipe worked very well.  The cookies were still a bit soft, however.  But, they tasted good.  I think that this is one of those things where you get better with practice.  My first cookies were too small and got a little too brown, but by the end they looked like real fortune cookies, as you can see here:

Tony thought they were great and he loved the sweet messages I wrote.

If you want to try this out, check out the full recipe and tips here:  http://www.wabisabibaby.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/fortune-cookies-recipe/