Magic Chinese cookies with predictions - this is a simple recipe for a festive dessert, which will always find a place among the sweets at the party and will amuse you and your guests.
The cookie itself is a thin pancake wrapping a piece of paper with a prediction or a wish addressed to the consumer.
The history of the appearance of magical liveries is very mysterious: according to one version, the original version of the delicacy contained inside parting words from the Bible, addressed to homeless Los Angeles, who received cookies for free. Another version says that dessert originally served as a secret repository for revolutionary notes. Despite the mysterious history of origin, you probably know that mysterious fortune cookies are a delicacy that is unusually tasty and deserving of honor not only among American and Asian desserts, where they gained unprecedented popularity, but also on our modest European tables.
In this article, we'll figure out how to bake cookies with predictions, a recipe and photos are attached!
How to cook cookies with predictions?
Before making cookies with predictions, you need to prepare the predictions themselves. To do this, the sheets of paper are cut into strips of 7 cm in length and 1.2 cm in width - the parameters are very important, otherwise the note with the message may simply not fit in the cookie. After, on scraps of paper you can write whatever you want, most importantly - do it with non-toxic ink. By the way, messages can also be printed using a printer, just adjusting the font size for the note settings.
When the notes are ready, you can start preparing a dough for the liver.
Ingredients:
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - ½ item;
- flour - ½ st .;
- salt - ¼ tsp spoon;
- water - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- vanilla extract - ¾ tsp;
- butter - for greasing a baking sheet.
Preparation
Squirrels are separated from the yolks and whipped with vanilla extract and butter until the appearance of foam. Separately mix water, sugar, flour and vanilla extract so as to obtain an adhesive mass, into which it will then be necessary to gradually introduce proteins, and knead the dough until complete homogeneity. As a result, we obtain a sufficiently liquid mass.
As an addition to the dough, you can add lemon peel or orange, cinnamon, a bit of ground cloves or even poppy.
Baking tray is greased with butter (or use baking paper on the back of which draw circles of 8 cm in diameter, which will help make your cookies the same in size).
All that remains is to apply the dough evenly on a baking sheet and send to the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 6-8 minutes or until the edges of the liver are golden. Note that the distance between each cookie should be about 4-5 cm, so that during cooking it does not stick together or spread out.
Next, turn off the oven and leave its door open, while taking out the finished cookies one at a time to keep them plastic. In the center of each "pancake" we put a note.
Fold the cookies in half, like a taco.
Folded biscuits bend in half in the middle, bending the bottom of the cake with the help of the edge of the cup.
Now the cookies should be placed in a baking dish or in a cup or glass of the appropriate diameter so that it does not lose shape during cooling.
A cookie with predictions is ready to serve. You can serve it both in its original form, and decorating with glaze, fondant, colored sprinkles or edible beads.