Fortune Cookies!

It's fun to fill them with quotes or sweet messages. I went down to the local Chinese restaurant and asked to buy some take out boxes... they usually just give them to you if you promise to eat there... Have fun!
Jen

Ingredients:

4 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 /4 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar

Mix egg whites with vanilla until foamy but not stiff.
In another bowl mix flour, sugar and salt together. (For chocolate cookies
add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to flour and sugar mixture.)
Combine egg and flour mixtures - Mixture will be a batter consistency.

Baking & Folding Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Grease 2 cookie sheets.
Cut 2-3 dozen fortunes into strips.
Place cookie template near center of a cool baking sheet.
Drop a spoonful of batter in the center of the template then spread to the edges of the circle.
(I, of course, am too cheap to buy the template for $12 so I just learned that it's a circle that's 3 inches wide and I just take a spoonful and smooth it out in a circle about that wide.)

Start with just 2-3 cookies per sheet because cookies have to be really hot to form them. As you get the hang of it you can do up to 6 cookies to a sheet. Bake 4-5 Min. or until cookie has turned a golden color ½ inch wide around the outer edge. The Center will remain pale.
While one sheet is baking, prepare the other sheet.
Quickly remove sheet from oven, remove a cookie from the sheet with spatula and place upside down on a clean surface.
Place a fortune in the center of the cookie and fold the cookie in half.
Hold cookie by pointed ends, round edge pointing up.
Place folded cookie over the edge of a cup and pull pointed ends downward one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside.
Place folded cookies in a muffin tin to cool.

For more information visit: www.fortunecookiekits.com