Fortune Cookie Ingredients: 115g plain flour 115g granulated sugar 3 tbls vegetable oil The whites of 2 large eggs ½ tsp vanilla extract ½ tsp almond extract 1.5 tsps cornstarch Pinch of salt 3 tsps water
You’ll also need a baking sheet tray, sometimes called a cookie sheet.
How to make them:
1. Prepare your fortunes by writing them on small strips of paper and folding them.
2. Preheat oven to 150 C/300 F/Gas mark 2. Grease your baking sheet really well. Write fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide.
3. Whisk the egg whites with the vanilla extract, almond extract and vegetable oil until foamy but not stiff.
4. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, salt, cornstarch and sugar together, before blending into the egg white mixture with the water. Stir until you have a nice batter.
5. Carefully spoon out the batter onto the baking sheet. It’s a little like making a pancake as you’ll need to tilt the sheet from side to side to make a circle of batter about 3 inches wide. Make sure there’s plenty of space between the circles.
6. You only need to pop them in the oven for about 5 minutes, or until they start to lightly brown around the edges.
7. Once you’ve removed the cookies from the oven, you need to act fast! Once the cookies have hardened, you can’t fold them so it is best to make just a few cookies at a time. Lift the cookie with a spatula and place upside down on a chopping board. Put one of the folded pieces of paper with a fortune on it in the centre of the cookie. Fold the cookie in half. Place the cookie on the rim of a glass and gently pull the edges down over the rim, then place the cookie in a muffin case so that it keeps its shape as it firms.
8. Start making your next batch of cookies; make several at a time until you have the knack.