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Homemade Fortune Cookies

Ingredients

  • 3 egg whites
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup melted and cooled butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp. almond extract
  • 1 cup flour
  • 2-4 TBS water

Instructions

  1. Type up and cut out your fortunes, set aside.
  2. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
  3. Line a couple cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  4. In a medium bowl, with an electric hand mixer, whisk together the egg whites and sugar, until frothy. It may take a few minutes.
  5. Whisk in melted butter, vanilla, almond extract, water, and flour. You want the mixture to resemble pancake batter. If it's too thick, just add and extra TBS of water.
  6. Spread a TBS of the batter on the cookie sheet, into a 4 inch circle. You want to spread it so it's as thin as a crepe.
  7. Do two cookies per sheet, until you get the folding technique down, then maybe up it to four.
  8. Bake for about 7 minutes, or until the edges are golden about 1/2" all the way around.
  9. Remove from oven, using a spatula, quickly remove them and set them on the counter.
  10. Fold them in half, without creasing the folded edge, you want a hollow opening.
  11. Fold them in half the other direction, so they look like fortune cookies. :) To help them hold their shape while cooling, set them inside a muffin tin. It will prevent them from opening.
  12. Once they have cooled and hardened, fold a fortune in half, and stuff it into one side of the cookie. (Adding them to the cookie before folding usually leads to a stuck fortune...icky.)
  13. All done!