Chinese fortune cookies recipe

Recipe for chinese fortune cookies in our easy ethnic recipes collection.

Recipe ingredients

• 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

How to make chinese fortune cookies

• Combine margarine, sugar, egg, and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Add flour and baking powder. Stir everything together to form a ball of dough.
• Lightly flour a wooden board or flat surface. With a rolling pin, roll half of dough very thin. Use a circle-shaped cookie cutter or the top of a large glass (about 2 1/2 inches wide) to cut out circles in dough. (Cut dough into other shapes, if you wish).
• Put a fortune in each circle, off to one side(*). Fold the circle in half and then in half again. Pinch edges to seal.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Reroll leftover scraps of dough and make cookies from them. Then roll and make cookies from other half of dough.
• Bake cookies for about 10 minutes or until they are lightly browned. Serve when cool.

(*) To make the fortunes for your cookies, cut white paper into 25 strips about 2 inches long and 3/4 inches wide and write a fortune on each one.

Preparation time: 30 to 45 minutes
Baking time: 10 minutes
Makes 25 cookies

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