# Homemade Fortune Cookies

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- Published: 2015-11-06T05:00:48+11:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

**[Homemade Fortune Cookies](http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/1479/home-made-fortune-cookies.aspx?o_is=LV)**
are great favours for guests on any occasion. They taste just like those in Chinese
restaurants!

Fortune Cookies are amazing because they have this mysterious touch in them. You
don’t know what they are going to tell you, and that’s truly exciting, right?

But did you know that it’s so easy to make your own fortune cookies and that you
can make them at home? Yes, you don’t have to go to a Chinese restaurant anymore
just to know what your future holds! Here’s the recipe!

You can add a message inside for a personalised touch – perhaps to propose to your
girlfriend or announce your pregnancy?

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## Homemade Fortune Cookies

 Recipe by Stay at Home Mum

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Homemade Fortune Cookies are crisp, lightly sweet cookies folded around fun, personalized
fortunes for a playful, delightful treat.

 Course: Baking, Biscuits/Slices, Cocktail Party, Kid Friendly, Kids Parties, RecipesCuisine:
AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

 Adjust servings

+

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6

servings

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Calories

0

kcal

Total time

35

minutes

  Cook Mode

### Ingredients

 * 1 egg white
 * 1 Dash vanilla essence
 * 0.25 cup Plain flour
 * 1 Pinch salt
 * 0.25 cup Caster sugar
 * 2 tbsp Butter

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### Directions

 * Preheat oven to 200C. Write fortunes on strips of paper about 10cm long and 1cm
   wide. Generously grease 2 baking trays.
 * Mix the egg white and vanilla until foamy but not stiff.
 * Sift the flour, salt and sugar and blend into the egg white mixture.
 * Place teaspoonfuls of the batter at least 10cm apart on one of the prepared baking
   trays.
 * Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 8cm in diameter. Be
   careful to make batter as round and even as possible. Do not make too many, because
   the cookies have to be really hot to form them into their final shapes and once
   they cool it is too late. Start with 2 or 3 to a tray to see how many you can
   do.
 * Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie has turned a golden colour around the outer
   edge of the circle. The centre will remain pale. While one tray is baking, prepare
   the other.
 * Remove from oven and quickly move cookie with a wide spatula and place upside
   down on a wooden board.
 * Quickly place the fortune on the cookie, close to the middle, and fold the cookie
   in half.
 * Place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed 
   edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside.
 * Place folded cookies into the cups of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold their
   shape until firm.

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 Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

 Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical
home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney,
she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school 
age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience
in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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