10 - 14 strips of paper (3" x ½" each) with fortunes
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and grease two small cookie sheets.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat and whisk in confectioners’ sugar, egg white, vanilla extract, and salt until well blended.
Stir in flour until the batter is smooth.
Drop a heaping teaspoon of batter onto a greased cookie sheet, then repeat with another, spacing them about 3-inches apart. Using the back of a spoon, spread the batter evenly to form two 3-inch rounds. Make sure that the batter is not too thin around the edge because it tends to burn more readily than the middle part.
Bake for about 3 minutes or until fortune cookies are lightly golden. Remove cookies from oven, and loosen them with a metal spatula.
Immediately place a fortune across the center of a hot cookie, fold it in half, and press edges together. Then quickly hold the ensemble over edge of a small bowl to create a fortune cookie shape.
For an alternative shape, hold a hot cookie over the bottom of a small up-side-down glass to make a basket. It is a terrific homemade way to serve your favorite ice cream.
For larger cookie baskets, use a tablespoon of batter instead of a teaspoon.
Making almond tuiles by placing sliced almonds on the rounds of batter before baking them. Then place hot cookies over a rolling pin to shape tuiles.
The possibilities of shaping these hot cookies are limited only by your imagination.
