Easter isn’t the same as Christmas, where we have a ton of different kinds of cookies, or even like Thanksgiving, where we have tons of homemade pies for dessert. We usually have Grandma Rose’s Rice Pie for dessert as well as the Easter Sweet Bread and that’s usually it (and don’t get me wrong, that’s plenty!!) This year though, we had a special treat: I made Pizzelles! Pizzelles bring me right back to my childhood whenever I eat them. Grandma Grello still makes them and I love them.
We’d been having a discussion about them with her recently and I realized that even though we received a Pizzelle Maker years ago from my mother-in-law as an anniversary gift, it’d been a really long time since I’d used it. I thought that this Easter would be a great time to make them for an extra-special treat.
The great thing about the Pizzelle Maker is that it comes with the recipe, several of them. The basic recipe is a quick and easy recipe and once you get the hang of how much batter to put on the machine, the pizzelles come quickly, about every 30 seconds. It says the recipe makes about 30, but I probably broke up at least six of the “mistakes” into bits for the kids to eat as I was getting the hang of how much batter and how long to cook them. I also let them each eat a whole one once I did get the hang of it. We ended up with about 20 of them at the end.
For the batter, they recommended using one heaping teaspoon in each of the two molds, but when I tried that, they were too small, only about half the size of a regular cookie. So I upped it to one heaping TABLESPOON instead and it worked out perfectly. They also recommended putting the batter into the center of the mold more towards the back, which seemed to work out well.
One important trick is to be sure to take them off and place them on a flat surface to cool (assuming you want them to be flat.) They come off the mold warm and soft, and they will form any shape you put them on, so even a plate that isn’t entirely flat will cause them to be off-kilter a bit. I put them directly onto a plate and then brought them to the cooling racks on the table and quickly slid them onto the racks to cool completely flat.
I think that’s all the important things to note. Here’s the basic pizzelle recipe I used as well as my adjustments to it.
INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup melted butter, margarine or oil (I used oil)
3/4 cup sugar
DIRECTIONS
Beat eggs and sugar.
Add cooled melted butter or margarine (or oil) and vanilla.
Sift flour and baking powder and add to egg mixture.
Batter will be stiff enough to be dropped by spoon. (Use one heaping tablespoonful per cookie.)
Batter can be refrigerated to be used at a later time.
Makes 30 pizzelles.
*For chocolate pizzelles add 3 tablespoons cocoa and 3 tablespoons sugar.
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