Today is a good day! Good because I finally get to share one of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes, Vanilla and Chocolate Pizzelles, and because I get to tell you about The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap that I participated in this year.
Let’s start with The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! I remember last year at this time seeing all sorts of wonderful cookie recipes on my favorite food blogger’s websites. I was curious why so many of them were sharing these wonderful cookie recipes on the same day. I did a little investigating and discovered they were part of this cookie swap. The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap is in it’s 4th year and is a way to bring food bloggers all over the world together and celebrate with delicious cookies! Not only is it a great way to meet new bloggers, but it also benefits Cookies For Kids’ Cancer, a national non-profit organization committed to funding new therapies used in the fight against pediatric cancer.
As you can see it’s a win win for everyone! Cookies For Kid’s Cancer gets monetary donations, we all get to meet new food bloggers and share our favorite cookie recipes, and I get to eat lots of delicious cookies!! I was paired up with Curious Cuisiniere, What Jew Wanna Eat, and Living Better Together. I was so excited to share my favorite Vanilla and Chocolate Pizzelle recipe with them. On top of sharing my cookies with these lovely ladies, I also received some amazing cookies from Traveler For Good, Life on Food, and Home Cooking Memories.
In case you aren’t familiar with pizzelles they are a flat, round, Italian, waffle type cookie. While there’s not a drop of Italian blood in me for some reason my family has made making pizzelles every Christmas a tradition. I was fortunate enough to inherit my grandma’s pizzelle maker so now I can make these tasty cookies whenever I get a craving. Traditionally we have always made them using vanilla or almond extract, but you can use other flavorings such as anise, lemon, or orange. This year I decided to venture out from the vanilla tradition and try making a chocolate version as well. I loved this chocolate version and will definitely continue making it along with the vanilla. Aside from just eating the pizzelle cookies as is, you can also sandwich a couple of them together with nutella or even some ice cream. One time for a special New Year’s Eve dessert, I even formed them into cannoli shaped shells and filled them with sweet cannoli filling…that was a dangerously delicious dessert! I hope you enjoy these Vanilla and Chocolate Pizzelles as much as I do and maybe they will become a holiday baking tradition in your family as well!
Yields 36 cookies
Delicious round, flat, Italian, waffle like cookies. An easy and fun cookie to make this holiday season!
15 minPrep Time
10 minCook Time
25 minTotal Time
Save RecipeIngredients
- 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or more all purpose flour)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 t. baking powder
- 1/4 t. kosher salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 egg white
- 2 t. vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or more all purpose flour)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 t. baking powder
- 1/4 t. kosher salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 egg white
- 2 t. vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the pizzelle maker according to manufacturers instructions.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand held mixer beat the eggs, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla until smooth.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flours, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder if making the chocolate version.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and beat together until everything is combined and smooth.
- Once the pizzelle maker is hot, spray it with cooking spray.
- Drop tablespoon amounts of the dough into the pizzelle maker and close the lid.
- Cook until steam comes from the iron, about 30 to 45 seconds.
- Open and remove cookies from the iron and cool them on a wire rack.
- Repeat with remaining batter.
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