Abstract: Flat circular wafers are folded into the shape characteristic of fortune cookies in a machine which includes a turntable whereon a flat wafer is located and carried to a predetermined position, a reciprocating plunger operable to press the wafer through a pair of gates which define a slot below the predetermined position thereby to make a first fold in the wafer along its diameter so that it has a semicircular shape, two pairs of pincers which grasp the once-folded wafer at opposite ends of the first fold line, and means to operate the pincer pairs to move toward one another to bring the midpoint of the first fold line against a stationary edge and to make the second fold over that edge, and a pair of juxtaposed endless belts that grip the twice-folded wafer on edge therebetween and carry it to discharge. Also, a device is described for laying a fortune slip on the flat wafer after it is located on the turntable.