Holiday Fortune Cookies

I know it's not even Christmas and I'm going to do a post about New Year's Eve. But the big night is on my mind. "Why?" you ask with great interest. Because, eight of the craziest people I know ended up living on the same street as Pap and I. How lucky are we? So we decided to do a Progressive Dinner for New Year's Eve. My house will be last and I will of course be serving the Dessert, Champagne, Frozen Strawberry Daiquiris, Kahlua Martinis, and more Champagne. Woo Hoo... it will be party time at Moogie's house.

To add a bit of unusual fun to the evening, I made my own fortune cookies. Unlike the usual cookies, these have a definite holiday flavor with the cinnamon and nutmeg spices. And although they're very easy to make, be warned, they are a tad time consuming to bake.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cup canola oil
2 large egg whites
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 (2-ounce) vanilla candy coating squares
holiday decorator sugar

Directions:
1. Whisk together first 6 ingredients in a medium bowl. Add oil and egg whites, whisking until smooth. Whisk in water and vanilla extract.

2. Drop a rounded teaspoonful of batter onto a well-greased baking sheet. Using back of a spoon, spread batter into a 3-inch circle. Repeat procedure with another rounded teaspoonful of batter. Bake at 300 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.

3. Working quickly, immediately remove each cookie from pan with a spatula, and flip over into gloved hand; place prepared fortune in center of each cookie and fold each cookie in half. Grasp end of each cookie, and place over the edge of a bowl, drawing the edges down to form a crease. Place cookies, ends down in mini-muffing pans to maintain shape; let cookies cool completely. Repeat procedure with remaining batter, baking 2 cookie sat a time.

5. To decorate, microwave vanilla coating in a small bowl at medium power, 2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute. Dip outer edge of each cookie in vanilla coating, and then into sugar; set aside to let coating harden. Yield: about 2 dozen.

Cookie creased over the edge of measuring cup.