Fortune Cookie

Fortune cookie - recipe with photo, Chinese cuisine
Rating: 4.5 Votes: 19
Cooking Time:
40 min.
Recipe Yield:
10 pcs
Difficulty:
Medium recipe

Fortune cookie - a recipe for Chinese cuisine cookies appeared in the XIII century and has its own legend. And the legend says that in order not to arouse suspicion among the Mongols, it was decided to bake cookies in the form of the moon, in which a note was inserted calling for a riot. The uprising was successful and cookies began to be baked every year, only now predictions are put into it, and only good ones. Fortune cookies are most often prepared for Chinese New Year.

Recipe Ingredients

Wheat Flour 3 tbsp
Powdered Sugar 0.5 cup
Egg White 3 pcs
Butter 2 tbsp

Cooking Recipe

For the fortune cookies recipe, beat egg whites, add powdered sugar and beat until white fluffy foam. Next, pour in the melted butter, flour and knead the batter.

Spread parchment paper for baking on a baking sheet, pour thin cakes of dough, approximately 10 cm in diameter, with a tablespoon, and place in an oven preheated to 160°С (320°F).

Bake the cakes for 13-15 minutes, and then, while the cakes are hot, fold them in half, put a strip of prediction paper, then carefully in half again.

To prevent cookies from opening, it is best to put it in a narrow vertical glass or glass and let it cool and set.