My family who came over from Torricella-Peligna Italy have been making these cookies for well over 100 years. Unless you have inherited a iron stove top pizzelle griddle, you will need an electric Pizzelle Press to make these. Enjoy!
This recipe makes about 8 dozen if you don't eat a bunch as you are making them.
Ingredients:
12 eggs
1 cup of oil
1 cup of melted butter (cooled)
1 capful of Anise Oil
1 TBS crushed anise seed (crushed in mortar and pestal)
5 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
Directions
- Crack all the eggs in the mixer bowl of your Kitchenaid mixer
- Add oil & butter
- Add sugar
- Add one capful of anise oil and crushed seeds
- Mix gently on low speed
- Add flour one cup at a time.
- Mix well
- Place batter in refrigerator overnight or at least a few hours until it thickens.
- Set the Pizzelle Press to 3 or 3.5
- Scoop a small 1 inch size ball of batter on each griddle.
- Close the latch and wait for the green light. Remove pizzelle gently.
- Dust warm pizzelle with powdered sugar
- Watch them disapppear
