Homemade Fancy Fortune Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 25
• 100 g flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 75 g butter, chilled
• 1/2 egg yolk, beaten
• 1/2 egg, beaten (for egg wash)

Recipe

• 1 sift the flour. place the flour and salt in a large bowl. mix. rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
• 2 next add approximately 1/2 of the egg yolk . mix well using your hands. try to work quickly.
• 3 wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for 10 -15 minutes.
• 4 now take the chilled dough and roll out into a 12 inch square that is about 1/8 inch thick, using a rolling pin. use a cookie cutter and cut out cookies using your favorite cookie cutter shape (the recipe should make about 25, depending on how big your cutter is).
• 5 make flower stem: next cut the remaining dough into strips – 1/8 inch width and 6 inch long. fold strip in half and twist strip together. i’ve done this in the photo above.
• 6 lightly butter a baking tray and then line with oiled or baking sprayed parchment paper. place the flower stems onto the baking tray.
• 7 next brush the egg wash on top of the stem.take a flower cookie and place on the top of the stem. now make one hole on the top of flower using a toothpick.
• 8 brush the egg on top of the flowers and stems.
• 9 bake about 15 minutes at 200 c degrees or until the crust is golden brown.
• 10 remove from oven and let cool.
• 11 take a small strip of paper and write your fortune and connect it to the cookie with a piece of string threaded through the hole that you made in the flower. after that decorate.
• 12 enjoy.