Pizzelle’s are an Italian cookie made on a special “Pizzelle Iron.” It’s sorta like a waffle iron, except it makes incredibly thin cookies. Newer-fangled ones are electric and cook two cookies at a time. The older, original ones were cast iron and held over an open flame. Sometimes progress is a good thing…
The *family* recipe calls for anisette and anise seed. One year, I decided to make an amaretto flavored pizzelle substituting 1 cup of almond meal for 1 cup of flour and amaretto in place of anisette. It was sacrilege and scandal in the Martorano family home. Victor’s mother wouldn’t touch them. Just to be contrary, I made them again the following year – and she scarfed them up!
We now make a variety of them simply by tweaking the original recipe. Nonna still prefers the original – but will eat any offered to her!
- 6 cups flour
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 pound butter, melted
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp baking powder
- anise seed and anisette to taste.
Beat together eggs and sugar till smooth. Add cooled butter, vanilla, anisette, oil, and milk. Sift together dry ingredients and mix into egg mixture. Toast anise seeds to release flavor. Cool and mix into batter.
Place walnut-sized drop of dough onto pizzelle iron and cook about 25-30 seconds. Dust with powdered sugar when cooled.
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- Aunt Emma’s Apricot Cookies
- Butter Rum Biscotti
- Cannoli Biscotti
- Cedro/Citron Biscotti
- Chocolate Amarena Cherry Biscotti
- Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti
- Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti
- Chocolate Sambuca Biscotti
- Chocolate Snowballs
- Christmas Turtles
- Coconut Balls
- Cuccidati
- Debbie’s Ginger Snaps
- Frosted Nutmeg Logs
- German Spritzer Cookies
- Gina Lollobrigida’s Wreath Cookies
- Gingerbread Biscotti
- Joanna’s Wedding Rings
- Karabij
- Kwachy’s Cut-Out Cookies
- Kwachy’s Melt-A-Ways
- Lemon Coconut Cookies
- Marie’s Jelly Strips
- Orange Macadamia Biscotti
- Pecan Balls
- Peppermint Patties
- Pfeffernusse
- Pistachio Biscotti
- Quadruple Orange Biscotti
- Ricotta Cookies
- Rolled Cut-Out Cookies
- See’s Original Fudge
- Spice Christmas Cookies
- Springerle Cookies
- Tequila Mockingbird Biscotti
- The Justin Trudeau Biscotti
- Torrone
- Torrone al Cioccolato
- Uncle Rudy’s Pizzelle’s
- Uncle Rudy’s Biscotti
- Vanilla Almond Cookies
- Walnut Butter Cookies