Recipe: Eggless Fortune Cookie Recipes -3

LONG LIFE FORTUNE COOKIES
Source: Healing Heart Foundation

1 Tbsp EnerG egg replacer + 4 Tbsp water
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup turbinado sugar or succanat

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Write fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. Use 2 non-stick cookie sheets or wipe them with a fine patina of oil.

Mix egg replacer, water and vanilla until foamy but not stiff. Sift the flour, salt, and sugar and blend into the egg replacer/vanilla mixture.

Place teaspoonfuls of the batter at least 4 inches apart on one of the prepared cookie sheets. Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 3" in diameter. Be careful to make batter as round and even as possible. Do not make too many, because the cookie have to be really hot to form them; once they cool it's too late. Start with 2 or 3 to a sheet.

Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie has turned a golden color 1/2 inch wide around the outer edge of the circle. The center will remain pale. While one sheet is baking, prepare the other.

Remove from oven and quickly move cookie with a wide spatula and place upside down on a cutting board. Quickly place the fortune on the cookie, close to the middle and fold the cookie in half. Place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside. Place folded cookies into the cups of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold their shape until firm.

6 servings, each 51 calories: 1% from fat (0.05 g), 95% from carbohydrates (12.2 g), 4% from protein (0.54 g). Sodium 12 mg, Fiber 1.6 g.

Healing Heart Hint:
A few drops of almond extract or any other flavor you'd like can be added to the batter.

For birthdays, holidays and special occasions, a tiny amount of coloring can be added.

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GREEN TEA-ALMOND FORTUNE COOKIES
Source: mdvegan /wegweb

The green tea powder is available at a specialty tea shop or most Asian markets. Two other things I have learned from my experience - wear cotton gloves when folding these - they are HOT!, and secondly, fold them fast (as soon as they come out of the oven) or they will break. This yielded a slightly softer fortune cookie than what you would get at an Asian restaurant, but I think it is an improvement. This is a modified version of a recipe that appeared in Veggie Life magazine in the Winter 2005-2006 issue.

1/2 cup Hain's Powdered Sugar
1/4 cup Earth Balance Buttery Spread
1/4 cup Unbleached White Flour
1/4 cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1/2 tsp. green tea powder
2 egg-replacer eggs*
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 to 3 drops vegan green food coloring (opt.)
Water, as needed
Paper fortunes, about 1/4" x 5 "

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Line a large baking sheet with a silicone mat (do NOT try this recipe on a regular baking sheet - you will have fortune cookie crumbles!)

2. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together sugar, EB, flours, and tea until smooth. Add egg replacer, extracts, and color (if using). Whisk until smooth. If necessary, add water a teaspoon at a time to achieve a thin, pourable batter (think crepes, not pancakes).

3. Pour 3 small pools of batter (a scant tbs.) onto the silicone line sheet, keeping them very well spaced. Using the back of a spoon, spread each pool into a thin, even round 4-5 inches across. Bake for about five minutes, or until cookies are browning at the edges and thinnest areas, slightly bubbled and no longer shiny.

4. (This is the tricky part) Working quickly, remove sheet from the oven to a heat-safe working area. Using a large flat non-stick spatula (the kind for crepes or pancakes) loosen one cookie from the mat. Place a fortune in the center and bring both sides up and together at the center. Crease bottom of cookie over the edge of the baking sheet and fold in half again, bending tips together in the classic fortune-cookie shape.

5. Repeat with other cookies and batches until completed. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

This is one of the more difficult cookie recipes I have attempted, but the more you make them, the easier it gets. The key to getting the cookies formed properly is the consistency of the batter. Keep it on the thin side and don't try to add extra to the baking sheet to rush. You won't get all of the cookies folded before they set. If your batter is too thick, the cookies will collapse when you try to fold them. Good luck!

* I used Ener-G, but cornstarch/water would also work. I don't know if flax would or not.

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VEGAN FORTUNE COOKIES
Source: Deborah / Vegsource
Makes about 24

Ener-G Egg replacer for 1 egg, prepared as per package directions
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp margarine, melted
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup flour
Cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Spray cookie sheets.
Put egg sub and sugar in a small bowl.
Add water, margarine and vanilla, and mix.
Stir in flour.
Drop teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets, leaving space between them.
Swirl the batter around with back of a spoon until cookies
are spread very thin and are almost transparent.
Bake 3-5 minutes, until lightly browned on edges.
Remove quickly, and work fast.
Place a fortune in the cookie and fold cookie in half, then in half
again, to shape like a fortune cookie.
Let cool.
Work with 4 cookies at a time.