Pizzelle recipe

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Does anyone have a GOOD pizzelle recipe??? I have a pizzelle maker and usually keep the recipe in there. In our recent move it must have fallen out 🤷

I have found a few online, although thought I would ask if anyone had one that they know is really good!!!

Thanks
 
I don’t even know what pizzelle IS, nevermind that there is an actual maker, lol.
 
I am making Pizzelles tonight.

I made some last weekend, using the Pizzelles II recipe from allrecipes. I used vanilla extract and added a good sprinkling of anise seeds to the batter (not sure, I just eyeballed it til it looked like the right amount of seeds). I also changed the margarine to 1/2 vegetable oil and 1/2 melted butter. Tonight I am going to try 1/2 crisco, 1/2 butter.

My grandparents’ next door neighbor used to make them with melted Crisco and I loved her pizzelles. I like butter in my cookies so this will hopefully be a good compromise.

I love pizzelles!!! I just want a better iron. I got a cheap toastmaster from a kitchen store and now know there are much better ones out there.

Oh, and pizzelles are really yummy waffle cookies. I think they are a tradition with Italian families? Mine never made them but the neighbor did.
 
If you can find someone to make some, they are far superior to the ones you might find in a supermarket. I tried those once, out of nostalgia, and YUCK!

If you have an italian bakery nearby (and chances are you do not) see if they have some.

And eat some amaretto cookies and cannoli for me if you do find an italian bakery.
 
Instead of vanilla extract use some Amaretto (yes the alcoholic kind) The little tiny bottles, like you get on the airplanes, is just the right amount. I have also used other alcohol but can’t remember what. I haven’t made any this year yet. The alcohol burns off but the flavor remains. Also try other kinds of extracts or some cocoa or dip half of each one in chocolate. Of course lots of confectioners sugar on top.
 
never have heard of making them with anise seeds before, only anise extract. Gotta get my iron out, oh maybe rosettes too!!!
 
I have my Great Aunt’s recipe.
But I have to find it.
When are you making them?
 
Found it 👍
This recipe is for the kind that you can roll up and fill. I never dipped them in nuts. I also have the little rollers, from my Great-Aunt. If you aren’t going to fill them, just let them cool flat.

PIZZELLES
12 eggs
3 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 cups sugar
1 lb. oleo melted and cooled
1 tbsp. anise oil or seed
2 tbsp. whiskey
3 tsp. baking powder
8 cups flour (approx)
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Beat eggs; add sugar gradually.  Add oleo, anise, whiskey; then flour and baking powder.  Let dough rest about   before baking.  Or, mix the night before and store in the refrigerator.  Drop by teaspoons or small balls on hot pizzelle iron.

While each pizzelle is freshly baked and still hot roll it around tube. Allow to cool, seam side down, while you are baking the next pizzelle.
FILLING
1 cup milk
4 tbsp flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 tsp. vanilla
ground nuts
Blend flour and milk and cook for 10 minutes until mixture is slightly thick. Set aside to cool. Beat sugar, butter, vegetable shortening, and vanilla thoroughly. Gradually add cooled milk mixture and beat. Stuff rolled pizzelles and dip in ground nuts.
 
I haven’t made them since 2005. 😦 I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease Dec 2006, and I only ever made them at Christmas.

I was just telling my husband that I needed to try to make some and use a gluten free flour mix. Wish me luck. 👍
 
This is my favorite recipe for thicker Southern Italian style pizzelles

6 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup of melted and cooled butter
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
7 cups of unbleached all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of anise seed (optional but preferred)
4 tablespoons baking powder

Beat eggs and sugar. Add butter and vanilla and anise seeds. Sift flour and baking powder and add to egg mixture. Batter will have a dough like consistency. 1 inch round balls can be formed to be placed on grids. Makes about 60 pizzelles
 
Thank You!!!

I am making them this weekend, hopefully depends if I get everything ready for our adoption home study Monday.

We make them every year for Christmas. We make tons and then package them up in coffee cans (empty of coffee) to send out to neighbors, co-workers, and family members that don’t have an iron!!!

Thank you for all the tips and hints in your recipes, Since I will be making multiple batches, I will try all of them and see which one I like best 👍
 
maryjk said:
I haven’t made them since 2005. 😦 I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease Dec 2006, and I only ever made them at Christmas.

I was just telling my husband that I needed to try to make some and use a gluten free flour mix. Wish me luck. 👍
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Do you get the Gluten Free Pantry flour mixes? They are awesome - I use them cup for cup w/1 teasp. of xanthan gum in all my regular recipes!

Before I discovered this great resource I was mixing my own flours and made krumkake (a very similar Scandinavian confection) and they turned out really good. Maybe I will make some today - we will see how my knee does for standing any length of time today and I have to make a delivery for Avon and maybe go to Radio Shack to talk to them about antennas for my converter box.

Anyway, the answer is, yes, they should turn out just fine and just as yummy with gluten free flour blends 😃

Oh, and Rosettes, man, I haven’t made those in something like 10 or more years. I am not even sure I know where my irons are for that.

Brenda V.
 
My daughter and I made 18 batches of cookies last weekend and not a single pizzelle. THOSE I will get from a bakery in Little Italy (Baltimore) next weekend. . . . I’m Irish, but have an Italian son-in-law who requires pizzelle for Christmas.
 
IrishAm said:
My daughter and I made 18 batches of cookies last weekend and not a single pizzelle. THOSE I will get from a bakery in Little Italy (Baltimore) next weekend. . . . I’m Irish, but have an Italian son-in-law who requires pizzelle for Christmas.
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They are easy to make, once you have a recipe 😊 and a pizzelle iron 👍
 
Brenda_V said:
Do you get the Gluten Free Pantry flour mixes? They are awesome - I use them cup for cup w/1 teasp. of xanthan gum in all my regular recipes!

Before I discovered this great resource I was mixing my own flours and made krumkake (a very similar Scandinavian confection) and they turned out really good. Maybe I will make some today - we will see how my knee does for standing any length of time today and I have to make a delivery for Avon and maybe go to Radio Shack to talk to them about antennas for my converter box.

Anyway, the answer is, yes, they should turn out just fine and just as yummy with gluten free flour blends 😃

Oh, and Rosettes, man, I haven’t made those in something like 10 or more years. I am not even sure I know where my irons are for that.

Brenda V.
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I have a Bette Hagman blend. It is just the act of getting the iron out, cleaning it REALLY well and going for it. It is good to know that you have made them or something similar and it worked. 👍
 
maryjk said:
I have a Bette Hagman blend. It is just the act of getting the iron out, cleaning it REALLY well and going for it. It is good to know that you have made them or something similar and it worked. 👍
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Oh, I get it. One of the things I did was washed my krumkake iron really well and then fed the first batch to the family thus getting the most gluten possible off the thing before I started eating any :D. Our next goal is to see if we can make lefse with these flours! All you Norwegians know what I am talking about!

Should tell you that my krumkake iron is a stove top version and the two parts come apart and fit nicely in the sink!

Brenda V.
 
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