Near the end of the last school year, my daughter brought home a book about making fortune cookies.
It included a recipe and we thought it would be so fun to try it!
So, today I want to share this idea with you- I think you’ll love it! 🙂
Ingredients Needed:
3 egg whites
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons water
And here’s what you need to do!
1. Start by cutting small strips of paper & making up some fun fortunes to write on them.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F
2. Separate your eggs
3. Our recipe said to mix the egg whites with the sugar using a whisk. You can also whip the egg whites and sugar on high speed with an electric mixer until they get frothy.
 
4. Stir in melted butter, vanilla, almond extract, water and flour one at a time. Your batter should look similar to the photo above (kind of like pancake batter).
 
5. Our recipe said to spoon batter into circles (about 3 inches across) on a cookie sheet that had been greased with oil. That totally ruined our pan- it was beyond cleaning. So, I suggest using parchment paper which I’ve heard also works for this!
6. Bake until the edges begin to brown SLIGHTLY- 5ish minutes and remove them quickly. In my photos they don’t look brownish. I suggest you let them get a little brown- just a little. That way they’ll still be bendy, but they should end up crisp- the ones we did weren’t as crisp as we would’ve liked.
 
7. Add the fortune
8. Fold the cookie in half. (I used my bare hands for this, but my fingers were pretty tender by the end! I have heard that you can get special cotton gloves for handling hot things like this. I’ve also heard of people handling them through a folded piece of parchment paper to reduce the heat.)
 
9. Bend the cookie as shown above. You can put them inside of a muffin tin, to hold their shape while they cool.
These were so fun to make! You do have to repeat the process quite a few times to make them all, but how fun to make your own fortune cookies! I can think of so many uses for these, for parties treats or favors, for fun school lunch treats, etc. And what about adding food coloring to the batter to make colorful fortune cookies or match them to a party’s decor!
Ingredients
- 3 egg whites
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Start by cutting small strips of paper & making up some fun fortunes to write on them.
- Preheat the oven to 375 °F
- Separate your eggs
- Our recipe said to mix the egg whites with the sugar using a whisk. You can also whip the egg whites and sugar on high speed with an electric mixer until they get frothy.
- Stir in melted butter, vanilla, almond extract, water and flour one at a time. Your batter should look similar to the photo above (kind of like pancake batter).
- Our recipe said to spoon batter into circles (about 3 inches across) on a cookie sheet that had been greased with oil. That totally ruined our pan- it was beyond cleaning. So, I suggest using parchment paper which I’ve heard also works for this!
- Bake until the edges begin to brown SLIGHTLY- 5ish minutes and remove them quickly. In my photos they don’t look brownish. I suggest you let them get a little brown- just a little. That way they’ll still be bendy, but they should end up crisp- the ones we did weren’t as crisp as we would’ve liked.
- Add the fortune
- Fold the cookie in half. (I used my bare hands for this, but my fingers were pretty tender by the end! I have heard that you can get special cotton gloves for handling hot things like this. I’ve also heard of people handling them through a folded piece of parchment paper to reduce the heat.)
- Bend the cookie as shown above. You can put them inside of a muffin tin, to hold their shape while they cool.
I hope you’ll try this sometime! 🙂
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Ohhh I love fortune cookies! This would be so fun for our family when we get together with cousins. Thanks Heather:)
KAT says
very cool I pined it to my pinterest page ! We just love Chinese food in my family.
Krista says
Can’t wait to try this recipe. It will also give me a chance to try the coolest trick I just learned for separating egg yolks from egg whites. Use an empty plastic water bottle, remove the lid, while holding upside down squeeze the bottle, place over egg yolk and release bottle. It suctions up just the yolk into the water bottle. Squeeze the bottle again to discard the yolk, repeat the process for each yolk. So cool!
Heather Lynne says
That’s crazy! 🙂 haha I’ll have to try that!
Penetavai says
These fortune cookies look great! And fun would they be in holiday colors! Can’t wait to try them out. If I spread them thiner would that make them more crunchy? Thanks for sharing Heather!!
Heather Lynne says
I don’t know if that would make them crunchy- but it would stand to reason that it would. If you try it, I’d love for you to let us know in the comments how it went!
Rhonda says
We were thinking of making these for our Halloween party! So neat to put in your own fortunes! Do you know how well they store or how to store them best? We will have to make about 100 and will need to do it a few days before the party. thanks!
Heather Lynne says
We went through ours pretty quickly, so we didn’t need to store them for long, but I would think they’d be ok in a regular airtight container.
Joanna says
Will have my family write what they are thankful for on the pieces of paper. Great for Thanksgiving! Thanks for the easy recipe!
Jamee says
About how many will one batch make? I’m thinking of putting in scripture verses with blessings in it and taking to a house warming shower to friends who just moved.
Georgeanne says
Would like to try the fortune cookies, but the recipe does not say how many it will make…even an approximate figure will help
thanks
tara says
Thank you so much for posting this! I used your recipe (with a few tweaks of cooking process) to make gender reveal fortune cookies when we told our family what we were having! I linked to you in my post: http://spotofteadesigns.com/2013/04/05/gender-reveal-stache-or-sash/
Sarah says
Thanks for the recipe! We just made mis-fortune cookies with funny fortunes (ie. you’re turning into your mother) for a Halloween party. We added twice the water to get that pancake consistency and black food coloring to play up the misfortune of it all..
Becca says
I just made these with my boys for New Years. Some of our “fortunes” are pretty hilarious. One of my favorites is – “Dxxx has stinky feet. Beware.” I added a considerable amount of water (held the bowl under the faucet a couple times) because my first batch was really thick and broke into pieces as I tried to put in the fortune. The thinner I spread the batter, the crispier the cookies became. I plopped a little on the cookie sheet and then spread it around with a spoon. We had no problem with these ruining our pan. A little cooking spray and they came right off. My fingers are super tender from the heat. Hopefully, it will be worth the pain.