What to do with crushed fortune cookies- recipe ideas?

I need to use 500 crushed fortune cookies in something or do something with them. By crushed I really just mean cracked open to get the fortune out. Some of them aren't even opened cause the fortune was sticking out the side. Here is the tale of how this came to be:



I'm an artist you see. I work in various media, but in this case I was creating a mural for a friend. I was given 20 dollars for supplies, but I had everything I needed and an idea struck me to incorporate fortune cookie slips, but I would need a large amount. This is where the trouble started- I could not find a fortune cookie company that sold just fortunes, and custom fortune cookie makers (the ones that make "will you marry" type fortunes) wanted a LOT of money for 500 random fortunes. Just then, an idea struck me.



I went to a local chinese restaurant, walked to take out area, put 20 dollars on the table and said "give me as many fortune cookies as this will get me". The cashier, with a look of panic and a quivering brow asked if I was sure that's what I wanted. I said yes, and that I must away post-haste, so he would have to skip the formalities and get me the cookies. What he came back with was a large cardboard box. Inside were fortune cookies. When I asked the amount, he simply stated he had filled the box, but he emptied out a 450 cookie box and had to include some cookies from a different box so he said there were at least 500 in there. An accurate accounting has not been made to this day.



Now began the painstaking, backbreaking job. Three individuals, including myself had to open each cookie, put the wrappers in one coffee can, the fortunes in a second, and the cookies in a large cookie jar with an airtight seal. After it was done and we emerged victorious, we wondered what to do with these cookies.



What followed was sundaes, salads, pie crusts, crumbled toppings for meats and desserts. A house known for getting delivery every night was now making delicious 3 course meals in order to rid ourselves of these infernal cookies. We had to go to the grocer's weekly to get the supplies necessary, with the knowledge that it would have to be something to incorporate the cookies.



Now comes the hideous part: after a fortnight and three days, we realized we had hardly made a dent in this thing. What is to be done? Any suggestions for storing these cookies so they won't go bad. We considered the freezer but they may come out soggy, so that's no good unless we grind them down into a powder or crumbles.



Since they are not individually wrapped and damaged they would not be acceptable to donate to a food pantry or soup kitchen...I inquired if they could use them maybe for crust or for stuffing during thanksgiving, but alas the soup kitchen I had gone to said if it's not sealed they can't take it, and told me that is the policy of all the places he knew in the area. I assured him my goal was not to poison the homeless, but he told me it was out of his hands as it was their policy.



Another idea we considered was to drop them crumbled up in larger pieces in the nearby nature trail for woodland creatures but that may attract raccoons and other unwanteds that would pillage garbage bins once their precious fortune cookies ran out. I just don't feel right about throwing it in the trash cause it's food and it's not spoiled or stale so it's a needless waste. Even the wrappers are still in a coffee tin where they may be of some use in a future project.



Is there a way to use all the cookies at once? Perhaps something large. If it can be crushed into a powder and stored, what would it replace in a recipe?



Perhaps some kind of bird feeder can be made. Can birds eat fortune cookies? I was thinking I could use the empty coffee can that contained the fortune slips and maybe make a bird feeder on our second story patio. That way it would be high up enough as to not attract insects and raccoons.



Should this be our option we must act quickly as the window for michigan's remaining days of acceptable weather is closing and soon the birds will have left for warmer weather.



I live 20 miles from the Canadian border, so I could also toss the cookies onto the land there if it would result in the province of Ontario immediately becoming part of the United States. Then I can see if their accents disappear. Seriously, how can you live so close to the US border and still have a thick canadian accent?



There is 5 pounds of this stuff left. It turns out these have become misfortune cookies.



So please save the environment and help me use these cookies.What to do with crushed fortune cookies- recipe ideas?
Pulverize them in a food processor then add butter and sugar and make a cheesecake crustWhat to do with crushed fortune cookies- recipe ideas?
You can crush them down and use them in any recipes you would use Graham cracker crumbs for.

Use them in no bake recipes.

Make fortune cookie cookies.

Or simply dig them into the garden.

Crush them down and scatter them from a bridge into the river. Fish might appreciate them.

Mix them with water into a stiff dough. Use the dough for fish bait.

Mix them with cereals and water and shape them into little bone shapes and bake as dog biscuits.

Dip them in different colors of lacquer let them dry hard and make a new line of arty fashion jewellery.

Paint them in christmas colors and string them as garlands for the christmas tree.

Lace them with rat poison and use them as bait for rat and mouse traps.

Get a couple of traps and use them as bait to trap 'coons and other unwanteds.



OR .................



Make one huge batck of cookies and send them to the Tea Party for them to nibble with their tea.



BeulahWhat to do with crushed fortune cookies- recipe ideas?
Put dark reds, blues, purples, and blacks on a canvas and dip cookie pieces into the colors as well and splat them onto the big mural canvas. Call it "My fortune misfortune", and sell the story (at least an abbreviated version) with the painting. I'd buy it! :)