One of the most abysmal baking failures I’ve ever had was a few months ago, when I attempted to make fortune cookies. They kept on popping up on many of the food blogs that I follow, and I wanted to try making them–it seemed so easy! Just mix, drop, bake, scrape, fold and mold… but they kept on going to pieces. =(
What was great about it, though, was that all five of us in the apartment had some fun. Jason, Grace, and Lily all tried making them with me (Jason made the best ones!), and Rocky even joined in when we were writing fortunes to insert into the cookies. No pictures of the fortune cookies (too ugly to photograph and keep my dignity!), but here are some messages we put up on the board for memories:
These could be called mottoes–top one is mine, bottom one is Grace’s!
Messages from Jason; you should especially take the last one seriously. ;)
That is a cool idea. I have actually heard of people using fortune cookies to propose. However, I have never heard of homemade fortune cookies.
I wonder why they shaped the cookie that way (other than to have a pocket for the paper).
Fortune cookies are based off of tsujiura senbei, traditional Japanese crackers/cookies! For more fortune cookie history (and pictures): http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/2008/01/16/fortune-cookies-are-really-from-japan/