What does the new year bring? Maybe a fortune cookie can tell us. The little lucky charms from your own oven taste much better than the ready-made variant. And the great thing is: You can make your loved ones happy with personal wisdom.
Full of hopes and wishes we start the dewy year on New Year’s Eve: A new love… a new job… the longed-for marriage proposal… What will it bring?
Hardly anyone is immune to kitsch and superstition on New Year’s Eve. How else could it be explained that adult humans hold up misshapen drops of lead to the light and claim they are seeing a dragon/sword/flower?
Chinese fortune cookies are also very popular at the New Year’s Eve party. Bake the little crescents yourself this year! It’s very simple and your place as a lucky fairy is guaranteed.
Sayings for your fortune cookies
Before you start preparing the cookie dough, it is best to write down the small wish lists. Song lyrics, Bible verses, the funny saying on the house wall: Everything is allowed. For anyone lacking inspiration, we’ve rounded up some fortune cookie all-time favorites.
Of course, the best thing is if you make the sayings for the fortune cookies as personal as possible. If you don’t have much time or are going to a larger party where you don’t know all the guests, these evergreens are suitable, for example:
- “If the old year was successful, then look forward to the new one. And if it was bad, then even more so.” (Albert Einstein)
- “The new year has a clean slate until you put it on.” (Hans Fallada)
- “Greet the new year with confidence and without prejudice, then you’ve already half won it as a friend.” (Novalis)
- “Is it getting better? Is it getting worse?” is the question asked every year. “Let’s be honest: life is always life-threatening!” (Erich Kästner)
- Note: This cookie may contain traces of happiness.
- “He who knows how to enjoy life does not need riches.” (Chinese proverb)
- “Before you set out to change the world, go through your own house three times.” (Chinese proverb)
- “Anyone who asks is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask remains a fool forever.” (Chinese proverb)
- “Don’t be afraid to walk slowly, just be afraid to stand still.” (Chinese proverb)
- “Habits are first cobwebs – then wires.” (Ancient Far Eastern wisdom)
- Bake fortune cookies yourself – this is how it works
Ingredients
(for about 20 fortune cookies)
- 1 egg white
- 1/8 tsp vanilla flavoring
- 1 pinch of salt
- 30 grams of flour
- 30 grams of sugar
That is how it goes:
- Using a hand mixer, beat the egg whites with the vanilla essence until fluffy but not too stiff.
- Sift the flour into the egg white mixture and also add salt and sugar. Whisk everything well until a liquid dough forms.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Grease a baking sheet and place teaspoonfuls of batter on it. Using the teaspoon, spread out the dough in a thin circle.
- Place the sheet in the hot oven for 3-5 minutes, until the edges of the cookies are brown.
- While still hot, remove the biscuits from the tray with a spatula. Now put a small folded sheet of paper with a motto on each biscuit and fold the biscuit loosely into a crescent.
- With a glass or mug rim, you give the fortune cookie its characteristic crease.
- Let the cookies cool and harden on a wire rack.
- Look forward to the surprised faces of family and friends on New Year’s Eve! 🙂
