Title: Fortune Cookies **** (Kevin's Favorite)
Categories: Chinese, Cookies
Yield: 12 Cookies
1/3 c Cake flour
1/3 c Granulated sugar
2 lg Egg whites
2 tb Confectioners' sugar
2 tb Vegetable oil, preferably
-canola
1 tb Butter; softened
1 ts Pure vanilla extract
1 pn Salt
Preheat oven to 300°F. Very lightly oil two nonstick baking sheets
or lightly coat them with nonstick cooking spray.
In a food processor, combine all of the ingredients and process
until smooth.
Drop 6 scant tb of the batter onto a prepared baking sheet, placing
well apart from each other on the sheet. (Set the remaining
ingredients on the side.) With a small spatula or the back of a
spoon, spread each spoonful into a 3-1/2" circle. Bake until quite
golden, 10-15 minutes.
Have a small bowl and a muffin tin ready. Remove the baking sheet
from the oven. With a thick spatula, carefully release the cookies
but leave them on the baking sheet. Return the sheet of cookies to
the oven to soften for 1 minute. Open the oven door but leave the
cookies inside to remain pliable in the warmth of the oven.
Remove 1 cookie at a time from the oven. Lay a fortune in the
center of a cookie and roll into a tube, overlapping the edges
slightly. Holding the ends, fold the cookie in half down over the
rim of the bowl to form the traditional fortune cookie shape.
Immediately transfer the cookie to the muffin tin to keep it from
opening as it cools. Repeat with the remaining cookies. Spread and
bake the remaining batter, and form cookies as directed above.
