When John and I were still in our 20's I surprised him with a Chinese feast for his birthday. I even made these fortune cookies and included cutsy little fortunes I made up. I don't know where I got the energy...
1/3 cup flour
3 tablespoons butter -- softened
3 tablespoons sugar
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Grease cookie sheets. Dip rim of 3" cookie cutter or glass in flour; press 6 outlines firmly 1" apart on prepared sheet: set aside. In small bowl beat butter, sugar, egg white and vanilla until well blended. Add flour. Mix well. With small spatula spread rounded teaspoonful of batter in each outlined circle. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven 4-5 minutes or intil edges are lightly browned. Remove; place cookiesheet on rack. Quickly loosen cookie with spatula, turn bottom side up. Place a folded fortune in center, gently fold cookie in half, hold edges together 3 seconds, grasp folded ends of cookie and place center of fold over rim of glass to bend cookie to proper shape. If cookies cool and become too brittle to fold, return to oven briefly to soften.
