Chinese Fortune Cookies
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
6 tablespoons white sugar
7 tablespoons salad oil
1/3 cup egg whites
3 tablespoons water
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Stir together sifted flour, salt, cornstarch and sugar. Add salad oil and egg whites and stir until blended. Line a cookie sheet with foil. Drop level tablespoon of batter for 6 cookies. Use back of spoon to spread batter evenly into 4-inch circles. Bake for about 20 minutes. Remove one cookie at a time from the oven with a wide spatula; working quickly follow these four steps:
1. Flip cookie onto cotton gloved hand.
2. Hold fortune in center of pliable cookie while folding cookie in half.
3. Grasp ends of cookie and draw gently down over edge of muffin pan to crease at center of cookie. 4. Fit cookie in muffin pan (points down) to hold shape as it cools. If cookie hardens too quickly, put it back in the oven for about 1 minute. Store in airtight container.
Reviews of Chinese Fortune Cookies:
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A cookie baker in NC Dec 14, 2007
Would not make this again.
I tried this as well as several other fortune cookie recipes on the web and found none of them any good. I am an experienced baker and found the batter to be a total mess. I finally found an excellent recipe in "The Good Cookie" by Tish Boyle that called for refrigerating the dough for 8 hours and then spreading with a spatula onto parchment paper. This recipe worked beautifully and I didn't have a single lost cookie.
A cookie baker in England Nov 23, 2006
Would not make this again.
it was pathetic
Aug 11, 2005
Would not make this again.
this was an awful recipe, i hated it and would not make it again ever
A cookie baker in Ontario May 19, 2005
Would make this again.
Fantastic!
tina in elkhart Mar 23, 2005
Would make this again.
i would make them again because they are good
