Fortune Cookies
Today's Parent
Photo: Teri Lyn Fisher
Hand-forming these fortune cookies while they're warm is a bit tricky. Bake them in small batches and work quickly, returning the cookies to the oven if necessary to soften them if they harden before you've formed them.
Ingredients
-
1 cup
plus 2 tbsp
all-purpose flour
-
1 cup
icing sugar
-
1/8 tsp
salt
-
4
large
egg whites
-
5 tbsp
butter
, melted and cooled
-
3 tbsp
35% cream
-
1 tsp
vanilla
-
12
paper fortunes
-
royal icing
-
1/4 cup
assorted
coloured sugar
, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225°F (110°C). On parchment paper, draw 5 in (12.5 cm) circles, then line a cookie sheet with paper.
- Combine the flour, icing sugar and salt in a small bowl; set aside.
- In another bowl, beat the egg whites for about 30 seconds, until blended. Stir in the butter, cream and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture, stirring until well mixed.
- Spoon 1⁄2-1 tbsp (7-15 mL) of the batter into the centre of each circle. With the back of a spoon, spread the batter to fill the circles. Bake for 17-20 minutes, until cookies begin to colour but are not golden. Remove from the oven.
- Working quickly, with a spatula lift a cookie from the cookie sheet. Place fortune in the centre and fold the circle in half, pinching the edge together to form a semicircle. Bend the semicircle in the centre over the edge of a wide bowl. Set on a plate to harden. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
- Dip the closed ends of the cookies into the icing. Sprinkle with coloured sugars.
Nutrition (per cookie)
- Calories
- 142,
- Protein
- 3 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 19 g,
- Fat
- 6 g,
Originally published in the March 2011 issue. Reprinted with permission from Crazy About Cookies by Krystina Castella.
