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Fortune Cookies and Tuiles


Two things are worth knowing before you decide to bake your own fortune cookies:

  1. How well can your fingers tolerate heat?
  2. Perfection does come with practice.

ingredients for fortune cookies and tuiles

Butter2 Tbsp
Confectioners’ sugar¼ cup
Egg white1 large
Vanilla extract1 tsp
A pinch of salt
All purpose flour¼ cup
10 - 14 strips of paper (3" x ½" each) with fortunes


    batter for tuiles
  • 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.

    Shaping fortune cookies

  • 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.

  • Making homemade cookie baskets for ice cream 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.

    Shaping almond tuiles

  • 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.


  • This recipe makes about 10 - 14 fortune cookies.

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