My daughter & I made this one year for Valentine’s Day when she was little and colored them pink with food coloring.
1 egg 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract a pinch of salt ¼ cup unbleached all-purpose flour ¼ cup white sugar
Write fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches wide and ½ inch high. Preheat oven to 400°.
In the middle of a cookie sheet, smear butter in a five inch circle. Separate the egg yolk from the egg white and discard the yolk. Mix egg white and vanilla until foamy. Sift flour, salt and sugar, and mix together.
Place a teaspoonful of batter in middle of the buttered sheet. Tilt the sheet to move the batter into a circle about 3 inches in diameter. Be careful to make the batter as round and even as possible. Bake 5 minutes or until cookie’s edges have turned a golden color. Remove from oven and quickly flip cookie upside down with a wide spatula onto a wooden board.
Quickly place fortune on the cookie, close to the middle and fold the cookie in half. Place folded edges across the rim of a measuring cup and bend the pointed edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside. Hold in place until the cookie becomes crisp.
Cookie sheet must be washed, dried and buttered between baking each cookie. To save time, use 2 cookie sheets and while one is baking, form the next cookie.
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