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  1. Particular-Damage-92

    [Recipe Link](https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/ravneet-gill-fortune-cookies/). First time making fortune cookies and learned a lot:
    * Not a kid-friendly activity – cookies must be shaped quickly while they’re painfully hot. Double up on gloves.
    * There’s no salt or flavoring listed in the recipe, but these cookies need salt – they’re very sweet. Added vanillla extract and Lorann’s butter vanilla emulsion for flavor. Next time, I’d like to try a recipe with butter. The oil-only cookies are very crunchy; butter might help lighten the texture.
    * Bake on silicone, not parchment – the edges spread in a wonky way on parchment.
    * Lightly grease the silicone – I squirted a little baker’s spray and spread it around. But this will make the cookies spread a little, so leave plenty of room in between. If you don’t grease the silicone, the cookies stick and are harder to remove. 
    * Use a small cookie scoop to portion the batter. Spread the batter with an offset spatula.
    * The colored batter is very drippy and hard to control. I used a very small piping tip, but could have gone even smaller. Maybe food-safe precision-tip squeeze bottles would work better.
    * The dragged designs cause messy edges. Clean up the edges with a flat edge (like a bench scraper or the end of a ruler).
    * Very time consuming, since you can only bake 3-4 cookies at a time.  Would be better to have someone to help shape the baked cookies, so you can bake more than a few at a time. 
    * You can make giant fortune cookies – I used all the remaining batter to make a final big cookie. Might be fun to fill them with candies, washed and ironed paper money, or tiny trinkets as a party favor. 

  2. Just_An_Avid

    Beautiful work. Well worth your efforts

  3. cakerycat

    Wow these are so cute! I never thought fortune cookies could look like this! Fabulous job 👏

  4. Those look large and lovely fantastic job!!!

  5. SaltSpiritual515

    They are beautiful! And you clearly have a wonderful sense of creativity with the designs and the fortunes themselves. Thank you for sharing! 🥰

  6. Vicious-the-Syd

    Oh man I remember the fortune cookie episode on great British bake-off. They were struggling so hard. Yours look great!

  7. EstellaAnarion

    Oh memories haha I learned to make fortune cookies in high school so I could ask my date to prom. What a flashback 😂

  8. Vegetable-Maximum445

    Damn – you bakers make me feel so inadequate 😹. Great job!

  9. Abritrarily

    Love the designs and the fortunes are hilarious!

    I’d totally buy 12

  10. Curious_Koala_312

    Looks unique the fortune cookie.

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