Fortune Cookies

I have been making these for many years. Sometimes I make them very big with special messages inside; they are always a hit. If you like, you can drizzle them with both dark and white chocolate or dip one side in chocolate. They are very fragile, and taste wonderful.

16 Cookies

1/2 cup flour

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1/4 cup sugar

1/4    cup vegetable oil

2 egg whites

1 tablespoon orange flower water

1/2 teaspoon orange zest

16 fortunes, typed on 1/2 by 3-inch strips of paper

1/2 cup chopped white chocolate

Paste food coloring

In mixer bowl stir together flour, cornstarch, and sugar to combine thoroughly. Preheat oven to 325°. To flour mixture add oil and egg whites; beat at high speed until smooth. Mix in orange flour water and orange rind.

Make just 2 or 3 cookies at a time dropping batter by level tablespoons placed about 3 inches apart, onto a well-greased or parchment lined baking sheet. Use a small spatula or the back of a spoon to spread each portion of batter evenly to a 4-inch diameter circle.

Bake until cookies are a light golden brown (8 to 10 minutes).

Using a wide, flexible spatula, immediately remove 1 hot cookie at a time from baking sheet. Holding cookie flat with smooth side (which was against the baking sheet) down, place fortune in center. Fold cookie in half to make half-moon shape with curved (open) side facing upward. Draw center of folded cookie (open edges up) across a thin-edged bowl of pan to crease cookie in half again.

To preserve typical fortune-cookie shape, place each folded cookie pointed ends down, in cup of muffin pan until cookies are completely cooled and feel firm to the touch.

Repeat with remaining batter.