Write your own messages on 3-inch by 1/2 inch strips of paper in advance.
Cookies must be shaped quickly while still hot, so bake only 2 at a time.
Makes 14 cookies, about 35 calories each.
- 2 Tbsp butter (not margarine or shortening)
- 1/4 cup icing (confectioner's) sugar
- 1 large egg white
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 14 strips paper with fortunes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease 2 small cookie sheets.
In 1-quart saucepan, heat butter over low heat until melted.
Remove saucepan from heat.
With wire whisk, beat in confectioners' sugar, egg white, vanilla and salt until blended.
Beat in flour until batter is smooth.
Drop 1 heaping teaspoon batter onto cookie sheet.
Repeat with another teaspoon of batter, at least 4 inches away from the first.
With small metal spatula or back of spoon, spread batter evenly to form two 3-inch rounds.
Bake about 4 minutes or until cookies are lightly golden.
Loosen both cookies with metal spatula.
Working with 1 cookie at a time, place a fortune across centre of hot cookie.
Fold hot cookie in half, forming a semicircle, and press edges together with your fingers.
Quickly bend the semicircle over the edge of a small bowl to create the fortune-cooking shape.
Repeat with the second cookie.
Let shaped cookies cool completely on a wire rack.
When cookie sheets are cool, repeat with another 2 teaspoons of batter, regreasing the cookie sheets if necessary.
Repeat with remaining batter and strips of fortune paper to make 14 cookies, remembering to cool and regrease cookie sheets in between batches.
Cookies will keep, stored in a container, about 2 weeks.
