Wrap your New Year's greetings as fortune biscuits
29.12.2025
Translation: machine translated
Pictures: Stefanie Lechthaler
These biscuits may not be a treat, but they are still sweet. You can give your New Year's greetings in a unique way with them.
The folded paper biscuits not only add that certain something to your New Year's Eve table. They are also a lovely surprise with which you can give your guests your New Year's wishes.
The best thing about it: all you need is paper, a printer or pens, hot glue, a few clichéd New Year's greetings and the right folding technique. I'll show you how it works here.
This is how it works
When I'm sending congratulations to my guests, I make sure that each note is around ten centimetres long. That way, it will look out of the side of the biscuit later.
I type the texts in font size 11 and then print them out. I then cut them into strips about one centimetre wide.
If you want your message to remain a surprise, you can choose a smaller font or cut narrower strips. The note will then disappear completely into the fortune biscuit. The greetings look particularly personal if you write them by hand.
The greeting crackers are modelled on the originals. That's why I use brown craft paper. This also creates a nice contrast between the message and the biscuit. I cut circles with a diameter of about eleven centimetres from the craft paper.
I carefully fold the circles once in the centre. I only press the semicircle slightly flat in the centre. This small crease helps later when folding the biscuit.
Next, I roll the circle and place the greeting inside. The text points upwards towards me.
On the reverse side, I now press into the fold that I folded at the beginning. The roll bends into the typical fortune cookie shape as if by magic.
Finally, I place a small drop of hot glue between the paper wings so that the biscuit retains its shape.
With a little practice, I only need a few minutes per biscuit. I can quickly create a small collection of New Year's greetings for my loved ones. Try it out for yourself and surprise your friends and family with your own little fortune biscuits.
Header image: Stefanie Lechthaler
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