Pizzelle are a beautiful, thin Italian cookie featuring grid or floral imprints. Sometimes, they are rolled into cylinders to use for cannoli or are dusted with powdered sugar. Because of their beauty and elegance, a lot of people do not know how easy and simple a pizzelle recipe really is.
When making these cookies, they are more time consuming to make than they are difficult. The cookies are baked on a hot iron with patterned grids. The dough is spooned out onto the grids, then the cookies bake, creating the thin, patterned cookie. Pizzelle makers usually only make from one to four cookies at a time, and come in different sizes.
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However, the ingredients and materials themselves are pretty basic. In fact, most of them are likely found within your common baking ingredients already. These are the ingredients that are usually found in a pizzelle recipe and used in the baking process.
Basic Cookie Ingredients
The ingredients commonly used in a lot of cookie recipes include flour, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, salt, and baking powder. Pizzelle are very much the same. If you are just making a basic vanilla cookie, you may even need only these ingredients. But to change the flavor quickly, change out the vanilla for another extract, such as banana or peppermint.
Flavoring Oil
More concentrated and needed in smaller quantities than extracts, these are also used to give the pizzelle recipe a flavor. Anise, with its licorice taste, is often favored in this recipe. If you prefer something different, though, there are many other ones to choose. Orange and cinnamon are two more that work well. Flavoring oils are available in candy making departments at stores or online.
An Electric Mixer
Because the recipe makes a thick dough, it is best to use an electric mixer rather than mixing the ingredients by hand.
A Pizzelle Maker
True, a pizzelle iron is not a very multifunctional appliance. It's mainly used to make pizzelle and a couple of other waffle-style cookies. But if you make the cookies more than once every year, then it is worth buying an electric one. A pizzelle maker heats the cookies between two sets of grids. It has anywhere from one to four grid sets in the maker. You can find them online and in stores.
Powdered Sugar In A Sifter
Dust the cookies lightly with sifted powdered sugar after they cool. While it is not necessary, it makes the presentation prettier.
Ready to make pizzelle? Find a yummy and easy pizzelle recipe at http://www.thepizzellemaker.com.
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