Fortune Cookie Recipe

BISMILLAH HIR RAHMAN NIR RAHEEM


Ingredients:

3 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter - melted
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tbsp instant teapowder
2 tbsp water


Method:

- Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.
- Combine ingredients in order , mixing well after each addition. 
- Chill 20 minutes. Make cookies 2 at a time. 
- On greased cookie sheet, drop a spoonful of dough for each cookie. 
- It is very important to spread dough very thin with back of spoon to about three inch     diameter. 
- Bake for about 5 minutes or until edges are lightly brown.
- Working quickly, place a fortune**  in the center of each cookie. 
- Fold cookie in half enclosing fortune, to form a semi-circle. 
- Grasp rounded edges of semi-circle between thumb and forefinger on one hand. 
- Place forefinger of other hand at center of folded edge,and push in, making certain solid sides of cookie puff out. 
- Place each cookie in small size muffin tin, open edges up until cookie is set. 
- Store in airtight container.

**Beforehand:
Cut some paper into 2 inch x 1/2 inch strips. Type or write fortunes on them, to insert in cookies.