Chocolate Pizzelle

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This homemade chocolate pizzelle recipe is crisp, chocolatey, and beautifully patterned. They are an easy, elegant cookie that always stands out on any dessert table!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1

Servings

Calories 121kcal

Author Alexandria Drzazgowski

Equipment

Pizzelle Iron

Ingredients

3 eggs
¾ cups + 3 tbsp granulated sugar
½ cup butter melted and cooled
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 ¾ cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp cocoa powder
Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

Beat 3 eggs and ¾ cups + 3 tbsp granulated sugar together until well-combined.
Add ½ cup butter and 1 tsp vanilla extract. Beat again.
Sift 1 ¾ cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder, and 3 tbsp cocoa powder into the egg mixture and mix with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula. The batter should be thick enough to be dropped by a spoon (a mix between pancake batter and cookie dough).
Spray a pizzelle maker with nonstick spray and drop a tablespoon of mixture onto the pizzelle maker.
Close the pizzelle maker and allow the pizzelle to cook until they are brown. My maker takes about 1 minute and 40 seconds.
Remove the pizzelle from the pizzelle maker and place flat on a cookie sheet to cool. Spray pizzelle maker with nonstick spray between each new round of pizzelle.
Dust with powdered sugar if desired. Enjoy!

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Notes

Recipe copyright The Foreign Fork. For educational and personal use only.

Flour: Regular all purpose flour works perfectly!
Cocoa powder: I use unsweetened cocoa powder, because this recipe is not meant to be overly sweet.
Be sure to give your butter time to cool before mixing it with your eggs. Otherwise you might accidentally cook your eggs.
Sifting the dry ingredients into the eggs and butter prevents lumps as well as overmixing, giving you light and crispy cookies.
Be sure and spray your pizzelle maker in between each cookie to ensure they pull away perfectly.
Pizzelle make great waffle bowls for ice cream or faux cannoli shells. Carefully shape them over a bowl or wooden dowel right when they come out of the press.

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