These cookies are made by first whipping egg whites, oil, vanilla essence and sugar until they become frothy. Then add all purpose flour to these ingredients and mix well. Small balls are spread on a baking tray and baked until lightly golden at the edges. Once baked and still hot, small handwritten messages are placed and the circles are halved. Then the ends of the semicircles are turned towards each other using chopsticks or a long and thin stick. Cookies are left to cool and retain their shape. Fortune cookies can then be eaten or packaged. Wonton Food, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of fortune cookies. is headquartered in New York. By one estimate, about 3 billion fortune cookies are manufactured each year, with the majority of them being consumed in the United States.
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