Hazelnut Fortune Cookies
- 1 egg white
- 1 teaspoon hazelnut extract
- 1 -ounce hazelnut paste
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted but cooled
- 1 cup chocolate, melted
- 1/2 cup hazelnuts, chopped
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Lightly whip the egg white, hazelnut extract, hazelnut paste, and sugar.
- Sift the flour and mix into the egg white until smooth.
- Stir in the butter.
- Using a template 3 1/2-inch round, spread the batter on a sheet pan lined with a silpat.
- (If you don't have a template, you can drop 2 teaspoons of batter onto the sheet pan and spread evenly into a 3 1/2-inch circle.)
- Bake for approximately 5 minutes until the edges become brown.
- Remove from the oven.
- One at a time and working quickly, turn a cookie over, place a fortune in the center of the cookie.
- Draw opposite edges towards the center, slightly overlapping and then fold the ends downwards, in half.
- You can fold over the rim of a bowl.
- Cookies will crisp as they cool.
- When cool, coat the outer rim with melted chocolate and rolled in chopped hazelnuts.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/hazelnut-fortune-cookies-recipe.html (may not work)