Coconut Fortune Cookies

 
Makes about 45 Coconut Fortune Cookies

Make your own inexpensive homemade wedding favors. Place your unique wedding messages inside these delicate cookies. Present them in mini Chinese takeaway containers as a special treat for your wedding guests.



For the best tasting cookies bake these as close to your wedding day as possible, when cooled store in an airtight container.

What you need 2 egg whites 1/3 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar), sifted 1 teaspoon coconut essence 30g (1 oz) melted butter 1/3 cup plain flour, sifted 1/4cup desiccated coconut which has been toasted

image by c.p. storm

Messages on small slips of paper: An easy way to make the messages for the cookies is to print your messages onto plain paper using your home printer. Cut the paper into strips with a hobby knife.

Method

• Prepare the fortune messages before you begin.



• Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F).



• Grease and lightly flour oven trays, make two 8cm (3 inch) circles on each tray.



• In a small bowl beat the egg white using an electric mixer until just foamy, gradually beat in the sifted icing, essence and butter.



• Stir in the sifted flour and mix until smooth.



• Place a level teaspoon of mixture in the center of each marked circle on the trays, spread evenly to cover the circles completely, sprinkle with a little coconut.



• Bake, one tray at a time for about 5 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges, remove from the oven.



• Now work quickly, place one prepared slip of paper on each cookie, then lift the cookies from the tray, fold in half and lightly bend the cookies over the rim of a glass cool for 30 seconds. Place the cookies on a wire rack to cool. Repeat this process for the other cookies.

Making your own wedding cake and are unsure of how many cakes you will need to serve your wedding guests, see our easy to follow cake portions and cake size chart here.