There is no one definitive recipe for fortune cookies. However, most traditional recipes call for a dough made from flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract. This dough is then rolled into thin sheets and cut into small circles. Each circle is then filled with a small strip of paper containing a fortune. The cookies are then baked until they are golden brown and crispy.
Combine unbeaten egg white and sugar in a small 1-quart bowl and mix welluntil all sugar is dissolved.
Stir in, one at a time, the other dryingredients.
Then beat until well blended.
Melt butter in a small 1-quart bowl in microwave oven, 15 seconds.
Remove from oven and beat batter into the butter.
Drop by teaspoonfuls, well apart onto a lightly greased baking dish.
Microwave at FULL POWER 3 minutes.
(9-12 cookies can bake at once.
)Let stand only one minute because it is necessary to curl cookie whilewarm.
The top of the cookie will be the outside and the underneath partwill be folded inward with the message.
Repeat for the next batch.
Makes 1 to 1 1/2 dozen.
Ingredients
Directions
Combine unbeaten egg white and sugar in a small 1-quart bowl and mix welluntil all sugar is dissolved.
Stir in, one at a time, the other dryingredients.
Then beat until well blended.
Melt butter in a small 1-quart bowl in microwave oven, 15 seconds.
Remove from oven and beat batter into the butter.
Drop by teaspoonfuls, well apart onto a lightly greased baking dish.
Microwave at FULL POWER 3 minutes.
(9-12 cookies can bake at once.
)Let stand only one minute because it is necessary to curl cookie whilewarm.
The top of the cookie will be the outside and the underneath partwill be folded inward with the message.
Repeat for the next batch.
Makes 1 to 1 1/2 dozen.
