If at first you don't succeed...

Several years ago when my husband and I were dating, he had to go out of town for a couple weeks. It was the first time we'd been apart for more than a day, since we'd started dating. I missed him so much while he was gone. That's when I first new that I really loved him. It's funny how sometimes people have to leave before you realize how much you don't want them to leave again.

The day before he was coming home I decided I wanted to do something to surprise him. Something that would let him know just how much I had missed him. I got the idea to give him personalized fortune cookies. I knew a place in Salt Lake where you could order them. You give them the fortunes and they put them in the cookies. Unfortunately I didn't have time for that. It took at least a week for the order.

That's when I decided...I should make them myself. Sure I've never made fortune cookies before, but I had seen a demo on the Food Network and it didn't look like rocket science. So, I went to work. I searched online for a recipe and got to baking.

Well it wasn't exactly rocket science, but it was pretty darn close. After two failed batches, I finally got the technique down and managed to salvage 14 half way decent fortune cookies out of the third batch, each one of them stuffed with a different reason I'd missed my man. I wrapped them up all cute, and couldn't wait to surprised him with my ingenious creation. Long story short, he was surprised, probably not to the degree my effort truly warranted, but excited and surprised non the less.

I haven't thought about attempting fortune cookies again, until I came across this post on one of my favorite sites Our Best Bites. She makes this look so easy. It got me thinking...this would be a fun and unexpected surprise for Valentine's day. I must say, homemade fortune cookies taste 100% better than the store bought kind. They melt in your mouth. And who doesn't love a secret little message, written just for them, wrapped in a buttery cookie!

So...this just may be what I'll be working on all day tomorrow. Hopefully it will turn out much better than last time. I'll keep you posted. Wish me luck!

UPDATE: I unfortunately didn't get a chance to make these. I spent Friday cuddling a sick baby girl who wouldn't let me put her down for more than 5 minutes. My poor husband had the most unfortunate Valentines day, nursing the two women in his life back to health. We'll have to have a make-up Valentines day...maybe next weekend.