Fortune Cookie Recipe

Name: Fortune Cookie Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Switzerland
Ingredients: 60 g egg white | liquid (approx. 3 eggs); 40 g powdered sugar; 40 g white flour; 15 g butter | melted; 1 pinch of salt

Fortune biscuits for Valentine's Day

Chinese fortune biscuits are known all over the world, and everyone loves these little crunchy biscuits. Each fortune biscuit contains a saying, a piece of wisdom, or even an offer or a voucher. That’s the great thing about these biscuits – you can fill them with whatever you like. Now, with Valentine’s Day coming up, a few lovely words of encouragement and date ideas would be just the thing to surprise your special someone. The dough for the biscuits is really quick to mix, and for a touch more romance, you can even colour it with food colouring or add some fruit or vegetable powder – whichever you prefer. After baking, hide the message inside the biscuit, fold it up and leave it to cool.

Please bear in mind that it takes a bit of practice at first to shape them into lovely fortune biscuits. This is because the biscuits can only be shaped for a brief moment before they set immediately. That’s why it’s best to bake just three at a time and then quickly shape them into fortune biscuits. In the end, it’s up to your favourite person to find the hidden message. It’s definitely a very original idea for Valentine’s Day, and we guarantee it’ll go down a treat! After all, these crispy biscuits not only look great, but they taste absolutely delicious too! Have fun giving it a go!

And do share your results with us on Instagram! How did you personalise your biscuits?

As always, you’ll find the recipe to download at the end of this post

Key figures

Quantity: approx. 15 to 20 pieces

Cooking time:2 x 3 minutes

Difficulty: Difficult

Shelflife: 1 month

Ingredients

Egg whites \| liquid (approx. 3 eggs)		60 g
Icing sugar		40 g
plain flour		40 g
Butter \| melted		15 g
Salt		1 pinch

Pasteurized protein powder 100 g

Ready-to-ship quantity: more than 20 pieces

CHF8.50

Hand mixer Clever Mix

Ready-to-ship quantity: 6

CHF94.90

Making the fortune cookie dough

A quick word of warning to start with! Please bear in mind that it takes a bit of practice at first to shape them into nice fortune biscuits. This is because the biscuits can only be shaped for a brief moment before they set immediately. That’s why it’s best to bake just three at a time and then quickly shape them into fortune biscuits.

As the dough comes together quickly, you can go ahead and preheat the oven to 180 ºC (fan).

Now melt the butter over a low heat in a small pan and then leave it to cool slightly. Meanwhile, whisk the egg white together with the icing sugar and a pinch of salt.

Once the egg whites have been beaten well (they don’t need to be stiff; they just need to be firm enough to form peaks), you can fold in the melted, cooled butter using a hand mixer on a low setting until you have a smooth mixture.

Now sift the flour into the mixture in two or three batches and fold it in with a rubber spatula.

Stencil japonais base Ø 10 cm x 1 mm

Ready-to-ship quantity: 11

CHF64.90

Baking paper 42 x 33 cm, 25 pieces

Ready-to-ship quantity: 8

CHF4.95

You should now have a lovely, smooth mixture that flows thickly from the rubber spatula. Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the biscuit mixture onto it. To do this, use a Japonaiss stencil (10 cm diameter | 1 mm), place about a teaspoon of mixture onto it and smooth it out with an angled spatula. Using the stencil allows you to spread the mixture really thinly and evenly.

We recommend that you do not spread more than three circles of dough at a time, as the mixture hardens quickly after baking and can no longer be shaped.

The first three circles are lightly pre-baked in the oven! Bake the fortune biscuits for 3 minutes at 180 ºC and, in the meantime, spread the next three circles of dough onto the baking tray. After the first 3 minutes of baking, remove the biscuits – which are still very pale – from the oven, take the baking paper off the hot baking tray and leave them to cool for three minutes. In the meantime, bake the next batch of dough circles.

As soon as the second batch of biscuits is ready after 3 minutes, put the first batch – which has already been pre-baked and is still pale – back into the oven and bake for a further 3 minutes.

Here’s a quick summary of the baking process again. Spread the dough and pre-bake in the oven for 3 minutes. Then remove from the oven, slide off the hot baking tray and leave to stand at room temperature for approx. 3–5 minutes. Then return them to the baking tray and bake for a further 3 minutes until done. Remove from the oven and shape straight away.

But why do you have to bake this dough twice? Pre-baking and then allowing it to cool results in a much more even finish, and makes the biscuits slightly easier to shape.

The folds in fortune biscuits

As soon as the biscuits come out of the oven, you’ll need to work very quickly. It’s best to have already prepared lots of little pieces of paper with heartfelt messages, date ideas or vouchers.

Remove the pastry base from the baking tray, place a folded message in the centre of the circle and fold it over once (like a turnover). Then hold it in your hand and press your index finger into the fold of the turnover to create a small hollow.

Now fold the dough a little more firmly to make the hollow a bit deeper, and then fold the two ends round to the front to create the typical fortune cookie shape. To ensure it keeps its shape, you can place it in a muffin tin. The dough cools down very quickly and tends to crack easily, so you really need to work quickly.

If you’d like the biscuits to be a bit browner, you can bake them for another 2–3 minutes. But keep an eye on them so they don’t get too dark.