Fortune Cookies Recipe

Everyone enjoys getting a fortune cookie at the end of a tasty Chinese dinner. I for one enjoy reading what the paper says inside. Sometimes it's serious, at other times the sayings can be loving and heart warming, and then there are those that are just down right funny! Make your own fortune cookies with the recipe below. By making your own, you can create anything you want the person who receives it to read. You can have a lot fun with this. Perhaps you have a wedding shower coming up. You can create sayings that refer to the bride and groom and their upcoming wedding. Or perhaps a baby shower, a birthday party, Valentines Day, the list goes on and on with possibilities to choose from. Hope you give it a try and have some fun with it.

4 egg whites

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup melted butter

2 tablespoons water

1/2 cup flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend the sugar into the egg whites until nice and fluffy. Melt the butter and set it aside so it can cool off. Add the flour, salt, vanilla, water, and butter to the sugar mixture. Beat it until it is smooth. On a well-greased cookie, sheet, pour batter into 3 inch circles.

Bake them for 8 to 10 minutes until they are golden brown. Lay the fortune paper into the center of the cookie. Fold the cookie into thirds and bend the center gently.

If the cookie gets too hard to bend, reheat in the oven for a minute. That should make it easier to bend into shape. This recipe yields 30 fortune cookies.