Italian Pizzelle Cookies
Light, crisp Italian pizzelle are delicately flavored with vanilla and anise, cooked in a classic patterned iron, and finished with a dusting of powdered sugar.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1½ cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp each vanilla and anise
- ½ cup melted butter
Instructions
- Heat pizzelle iron
- Beat eggs with sugar, until light
- Add melted butter, vanilla and anise extract
- Combine baking powder with flour
- Add flour to liquid ingredients
- Mix until well blended
- Drop by tablespoon on to hot pizzelle iron
- Press the iron shut
- Bake 3 to 4 minutes
- Repeat with remaining dough
- Sprinkle with powered sugar