Lovey Dove.

Project #5 - Valentine's Day Fortune Cookies

Being the crafty (dorky) girl that I am, I love Valentine's Day.  Actually most holidays for that matter, but especially Valentine's Day.  My boyfriend and I actually had a Valentine's Day party, just to celebrate the love with those we love.  It was a wonderful night, and for the occasion I made homemade fortune cookies with my very own fortunes inside.

Our V-day party spread.

I got the recipe from radmegan.blogspot.com -  and found her tutorial wonderful, but just in case you wanted to try and make these, I have included some pictures and the recipe.  This will be one of the few DIY projects I will include, hopefully from here on out there will be one a month 'cause who doesn't love things you can do on your own.  

I started with the fortunes - which were pretty much just compliments.  

Compliment love fortunes.

Ingredients:

1 Egg White

1/8 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1 Pinch of Salt

1/4 cup Flour

1/4 cup Sugar

Red Food Coloring

First preheat the oven to 400°.  I then mixed in an electric mixer the egg white and the vanilla until well mixed and foamy.  Then I slowly added the salt, flour and sugar.  When that was mixed well, I added the food coloring.  

Then with a teaspoon, I dropped a spoonful of the batter on a well-greased cookie sheet.  I only cooked two at a time so I could get fold them while they were still hot.  And spread them as round as you can, and pretty thin as well.

Two by two.

Next I put them in the preheated oven for 2 minutes, checked on them to see if the edges were brown and took them out (sometimes they needed longer so I added 30 sec. intervals until they were cooked).  Then I took them off the cookie sheet and put them face down on a cutting board.  Then I quickly put the fortunes inside and folded them in half.

Cookie folding.

After folding in half, I put it on the side of a glass to get the crescent shape.

Crescent shaping.

Then I took it off and put it in a muffin pan to let it cool and keep it's shape. 

Cooling off.

Then I just repeated until I had finished the batter off.  I used two cookie pans at once so while I was cooking one, I could fold the other just baked cookies simultaneously.  One batch makes about 14 cookies or so depending on how big they are.  

Ta-da.

There you have it.  It was amazingly easy and cute.  They actually taste delicious too, which was an added perk.  I made these ones for the regulars at the diner I work at - so most of the fortunes have to do with coffee, but I think they will appreciate them.  

Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day!