Fortune cookies - general principles and methods of preparation
Do you believe in miracles? And in the predictions? Let you not take this very seriously, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy the fun with simple pastries. Simple but unusual - fortune-telling cookies are perfect for holidays, various parties and feasts. Everything is very simple - foil or paper with a prediction is placed inside each cookie baked in a special way. Some believe that this tradition came to us from the Chinese.
First, a thick pancake is baked and hot wrapped in a corner. A pocket with an inscription is laid in the pocket. You can make them in the form of rolls or in several layers. Guests select cookies and unfold the prediction. What exactly to write in the leaves is a matter of your imagination, the main thing is that it is fun. In any case, cookies of good luck, or happiness - as it is sometimes called, will bring a lively note and excitement to your holiday. Wishes of love and happiness, wealth, a comic rhyme, a prediction about a future profession, and so on - everything that comes to your mind and is in tune with the holiday.
Entertainment is met with a bang as a company at a children's birthday, and an adult feast, for example, a student. Americans believe in signs, they call it the cookie of Fate, or Fortune, and often put numbers that they use later in lotteries. There are cases when the options chosen in this way brought the lottery winnings. So, we bake fortune cookies to give loved ones hope and good fortune.
Fortune Cookies - Product Preparation
For children's birthday, you can make crisp sweet cookies. We will write about the predictions themselves at the end, and now we will focus on the baking recipe. More crumbly cookies will turn out if you take only the yolks, and not whole eggs, and use powdered sugar instead of sugar. The shortest baked goods are made from shortcrust pastry, the main components are flour, sugar and butter, with the addition of eggs.
Fortune Cookies - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Fortune Cookie (Chinese Rolls)
These cookies can be cooked with different fillings - the more the better. It can be raisins, chocolate, nuts, dried apricots, prunes - children will receive double pleasure from expecting not only predictions, but also toppings.
Ingredients: butter: 100 grams, icing sugar (0.5 -1 cup), yolks (3 pcs), flour (1 cup), vodka (1 spoon).
Cooking method
Think of predictions in advance. Better if it will be a surprise for children. Wrap leaflets in foil.
Grind the yolks with sugar and butter at room temperature. Add vodka, fill in so much flour so that the dough is plastic and not crumbly. We roll out a layer on the table and cut it into rectangles. Inside we put pieces of paper and stuffing, roll rolls. Bake in the oven for about 10-15 minutes, temperature t = 200 ~ 220 ° C. As soon as the rolls are browned, the cookie is ready. Sprinkle the finished product with powdered sugar, and part of them can be poured with melted chocolate.
Recipe 2: Fortune Cookie (with Cinnamon)
Squirrel dough will be more airy and crispy. Triangles turn out a beautiful wavy shape.
Ingredients: flour (130 grams), sugar (50 grams), vanillin (0.5 teaspoon, or a bag of vanilla sugar), salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, vegetable oil (can be corn and rapeseed), protein (3 pieces).
Cooking method
Combine flour and granulated sugar with salt, a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg, and starch. Beat butter and whites in a foam, stir in a spoonful of water and add vanillin. Spread the dough with a teaspoon, flatten the back of the spoon to make a circle with a diameter of 5-7 centimeters. We bake two circles, spread them at a distance of 10 cm. Baking time 10-12 minutes. The edges of the cakes should be slightly fried.
Open the oven and pry off the circle. Quickly put the prediction on the cutting board and wrap the cake 2 times, pinch the edges. The resulting semicircle is quickly wrapped around the edges of the cup, and laid down with the edges so that when solidifying, the same shape remains. So bake all the cookies. For decoration, you can use melted toffee, boiled condensed milk, multi-colored topping.
Recipe 3: Fortune Cookie (Starch)
Starch with flour will make cookies more airy, it holds its shape well and solidifies in the form of a triangular envelope. In addition, it is very tasty.
Ingredients: proteins (2 pcs), starch (1.5 tablespoons). Flour (60 grams), vanillin, vegetable oil (3 tablespoons), powdered sugar (50 grams), salt.
Cooking method
Beat the whites, add the butter and powder, add the vanillin and stir everything until a foam appears. Add starch to flour and salt. We spread the baking paper on a roasting pan and lay it out on a tablespoon of dough. Smooth thin cakes. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. The middle will be light, and the edges are golden. Quickly remove the cookies from the sheet and put the prediction. Fold in half and again as well. It turns out a nice triangle with uneven edges. Put the “corners” in the glasses and wait until they cool.
Prediction Options: Sample texts for children
- A trip with parents to the zoo - just around the corner!
- A cherished dream will come true - you will get a prize!
- You will grow by 2 cm by the next summer!
- If you hear your favorite song on the radio - there will be luck.
- Laughter prolongs life. You have a joke!
- The strength of the hero is increased three times.
- For the New Year, wait for a letter from Frost.
“An hour later, you get hungry again.”
- Your future profession is a trainer of hedgehogs (guinea pigs, elephants, etc.)
- At the zoo, a giraffe will smile at you.
- A fun journey awaits you.
- You will have a new girlfriend.
- A virtual kiss.
- Soon you will see your favorite cartoon.
Adult Prediction Options
- Your love is mutual.
- Do not resist the new, life will change for the better.
- Ask for help from the audience - friends will help you.
- Your goals are achievable. Urgently develop an action plan.
“The rusted lock will finally open, and you will do it!”
“Hopes will come true sooner than you expect.”
- Your cause is just, you will achieve victory, success is yours.
- Urgently buy a lottery - you will win.
“You are hopelessly in love.”
- Do not listen to anyone's advice, and luck will be on your side.
- An interesting adventure awaits you.
- Money will fall to you directly from heaven.
- Look around! You just go for the money!
- The darkness is scattering, ahead of the light!
- The road will be overpowered by the walking.
“You have to get out of the house.”
“Just say yes!”
- By the fall, your feelings will become deeper.
