There's one in the works now for a book publishing company. We do a tremendous amount for foods at conventions.
A terminally ill woman in a hospital received a fortune cookie with the message, "You will live 1,000 years." When her nurse alerted us to the error, we sent the patient flowers to make up for it. While the members must have had some laughs out of it, they told us the chairman of the board, a man up in years, was not amused.īut the worst mixup of all wasn't the least bit humorous. Instead of going to a bar, it wound up at the board meeting of an electric power plant in Minnesota. We used to keep the risque cookies in our warehouse, but one day one of the cases got mixed up with the regular ones. He gets a lot of feedback from his customers, writes down what he thinks is amusing and mails it all to us saying, "Next time you do an order for me, why not include these in the batch?" There's a man in Wisconsin who puts them on his bar. There are even condom specialty shops in New York that sell condoms in our fortune cookies. The cookies went into a can with a game card inside. When Trivial Pursuit was at its peak, we did cookies with 42 different themes-a question on one side and the answer on the reverse. The employer kept the cookies on file but didn't hire him. The employer he was trying to interest said it was a unique idea. She sent a batch to prospective employers.Ī man looking for a job tried to present his talents in the form of riddles and put them into conventional-size cookies his resume went into a giant-size one. One woman brought us her resume we had to fold it over and over until it fit into the cookie. Then there's the giant fortune cookie, about the size of half a small grapefruit and made by hand, which seems to appeal to people looking for a job. Today the most popular notion is the random lotto-numbers cookie sold in places where they sell lottery tickets. Hopefully this will save you some experiments.We get feedback from customers and friends, and we have people who come in with ideas they want put into fortune cookies so they can sell them. As said, I had to play with recipes and methods quite a bit before figuring out what works.
If you make them, I’d love to hear how it goes. Type them on the computer, print and cut them out and have them ready to go before you start cookie making. If you have a computer printer and access to Word (or similar software), the templates for making small labels are a good size for fortunes. It took cooperation to get it figured out. We once did a scavenger hunt with all of the clues in the cookies. Related: Our Best Chocolate Cupcakes Fortune IdeasĪnything goes! Who are you making these for? You could use jokes, riddles, compliments, reminders, trivia questions, or whatever you like. If there is such a thing as thin, heat-proof gloves for stuff like this, use them.
I would start with 2-3 cookies in the oven at a time and increase the amount as you improve.Īlso, they are hot! I just sucked it up and burned my fingertips making them. So, unless you have a helper, that means working in small batches.
FORTUNE COOKIE MAKER CRACK
You have one minute from the time they first come out of the oven to insert the fortune and shape them.Īny longer and they crack when you fold them.
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