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| These delicious cookies don’t have to be confined to Chinese meals; they also make wonderful |
| party favors, place cards, or everyday desserts. The batter used to make these fortune cookies is |
| traditional tuile batter. Tuiles are thin, crisp cookies that are easy to mold into curved shapes while |
| still warm from the oven. Remember, the key to success with these oversize cookies is to shape |
| 5 tablespoons unsalted butter |
| 1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted |
| 3 tablespoons heavy cream |
| 1 teaspoon almond extract |
| 1. Heat oven to 400°. Spray a cookie sheet liberally with cooking spray. Melt butter in a small |
| saucepan over low heat; set aside. |
| 2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine egg whites and sugar, and beat on medium speed, |
| about 30 seconds. Add flour and salt, and beat until combined. Add butter, heavy cream, and |
| almond extract, and beat until combined, about 30 seconds. |
| 3. Pour 1 tablespoon of batter onto half of the baking sheet, and spread with the back of a spoon |
| into a thin 5-inch circle; repeat on the other half of the sheet. Bake until the edges of the cookies |
| turn golden brown, about 8 minutes. |
| 4. Transfer baking sheet to a heat-resistant surface. Working as quickly as possible, slide a |
| spatula (an offset spatula, available at specialty kitchen shops, works best) under one of the |
| cookies. Lift it up, and place it on a clean kitchen towel. Using your fingers, fold the cookie in half, |
| pinching the top together to form a loose semicircle. Hold the cookie with your index fingers |
| inserted at each open end, and slide your thumbs together along the bottom line. Press into the |
| center of the cookie while bending the two open ends together and down to form the shape of a |
| fortune cookie. This whole process should take about 10 seconds. Once the cookie hardens, |
| which begins to happen almost immediately, you cannot fold it. Place the fortune cookie on the |
| kitchen towel to cool, and shape the second cookie. Repeat until all the batter is used up. To |
| speed up the process, bake four cookies at a time, staggering two cookie sheets by 4 minutes to |
| give you time to shape. To avoid wasting batter, practice folding with a circle of paper first. |
| 5. Write your message on a long strip of sturdy art paper, such as Japanese moriki. Thread the |
| fortune through the cookie when it has cooled. |
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