One of my favorite family recipes that I used to love making with my grandmother! Below is just her ingredients, I did have to find standard directions for the below. You can remove the anise and do vanilla and did into some melted chocolate and add sprinkles if feeling festive!
Ingredients:
6 Eggs
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 1/2 cups of softened butter
4 teaspoons of anise extract
Personally, I do about half of the anise when I make the recipe as I don't like as strong of a flavor
2 teaspoons of vanilla
3 cups of flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
Optional, powdered sugar
Directions:
Preheat pizzelle iron and lightly coat with nonstick cooking spray.
Whisk together your eggs, sugar, vanilla and anise (see how to measure anise above) in a medium bowl.
Now add your flour and baking powder and mix it well until there are no lumps and it looks smooth.
Drop slightly rounded tablespoons of batter onto a pizzelle iron and close.
Bake as directed by the manufacturer or until golden brown, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Using a nonstick spatula, remove each pizzelle to a cooling rack (or parchment paper); repeat with the remaining batter.
Cool completely and dust with powdered sugar if desired.