All of this has happened before...
and all of this will happen again.
Embarrassingly enough, I found a decent recipe from about.com (who knew?)
Follow the jump for the full recipe and a few more snazzy pictures...
I cut the sugar by ¼ and omitted the almond extract (since I didn't have any.) You've got to use a non-stick cookie sheet... I ended up throwing the first batch out, along with the cookie sheet it was stuck to.
Make small batches! No more than 4 at a time. by the time you're done shaping the first cookie, the others will already start to harden, so you've got to work fast.
Makes about 14 cookies.
* 2 large egg whites
* ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 8 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1½ teaspoons cornstarch
* ¼ teaspoon salt
* 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
* 3 teaspoons water
1. Type and print fortunes (I used red 11pt font) and cut out strips: 3 inches long by ½ inch wide. Preheat oven to 300° Fahrenheit. Grease non-stick cookie sheet.
2. In a medium bowl, lightly beat the egg whites, vanilla extract and vegetable oil until frothy, but not stiff.
3. Sift the flour, cornstarch, salt and sugar into a separate bowl. Stir the water into the flour mixture.
4. Whisk the flour into the egg white mixture a little bit at a time, until you have a smooth batter. The batter should not be runny, but should drop easily off a wooden spoon.
5. Pour 1½ tablespoons of batter onto the cookie sheet, spacing them at least 3 inches apart. Gently tilt the baking sheet back and forth and from side to side so that each pool of batter forms into a circle 4 inches in diameter. Making the batter even is very important! Make sure your edges are not too thin and that the curve of each circle is not too jagged.
6. Bake until the edges are a just slightly darkened-- about 12 minutes.
7. Now you've got to work quick! Flip the cookies off the sheet and onto the counter with a spatula. Place your fortune in the center of the circle, fold the cookie in half, pull corners down (away from the edges of the half-circle you've just formed.) Place the cookie into a mug or small ramekin to help retain its shape. Remember, for each new batch you'll have to re-grease the cookie sheet-- these little suckers are very sticky!
8. After you've baked and shaped all the cookies, remove them from their mugs, put them back onto a cookie sheet and pop them back into the oven for 1 or 2 minutes to finish cooking.
I must admit, I made a super-yuppie Asian dinner (lemon chicken and pork fried rice) to go along with these fortune cookies. The dinner kinda sucked, but the cookies were glorious.
So say we all.
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