Description
Edible bowls are just fun, and these ones, crisp from the pizzelle iron and perfumed with vanilla are ideal for a scoop of fruit salad or ice cream for the perfect summer dessert.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 stick butter (113 g)
- 3 large eggs at room temperature
- 6 Tablespoons granulated sugar (75 g)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup plus 6 Tablespoons all-purpose flour (180 g)
- Cooking spray for the pizzelle iron
Instructions
- Plug in your pizelle iron to heat up.
- Place 4 small ramekins or cups on a sheet tray. This will be your zone for forming the cups. Set the tray close enough to the iron to reach but away from the edges of the hot iron.
- Melt the butter in a small pan, then set aside to cool briefly.
- Whisk the eggs, sugar, baking powder, and vanilla in a bowl until the sugar is mostly dissolved and the eggs are foamy. This should take about 2 minutes.
- Pour in the butter while you keep on whisking the eggs. Whisk until smooth.
- Quickly fold in all of the flour just until the flour disappears. You will have a fairly thick batter.
- Spritz the cooking iron with a little bit of cooking spray.
- Use a small cookie scoop to place a ball of batter in the center of the circle on each side of the iron.
- Close the pizzelle iron, making sure that the metal ring is locked onto the handle.
- Cook for 1 minute until the waffles are lightly brown.
- Immediately remove the pizzelles and transfer them to the bottom of upside down small cups. Press a second cup lightly over each pizzelle. Let the weight of the second cup do most of the work of forming the hot cookie into a cup. If you press too hard, you will get cracks or rip the bottom out entirely. After a couple rounds, you’ll get the hang of it and you can form cups while you bake the next batch on the iron.
- Cool cups on a wire rack.
- If the cups aren’t as crispy as you’d like, place the finished cups on a sheet tray and bake them in a 350 degree oven for about 5 minutes.
- Pizzelle are best the day that they’re made, so scoop up your favorite ice cream into them pronto!
Notes
- 4 hands are better than 2: Forming the cups 2 at a time can be a little tricky. Enlist a kitchen helper! It won’t be hard to recruit a kid: the promise of fresh pizzelle is irresistible, and forming the cups is really fun for kids. If you are working by yourself, I’d personally bake just 1 at a time. Yes it’ll take a little longer, but you’ll get better results.
- Don’t let things get off kilter: Because the weight of the iron presses evenly down, make sure that your dough ball is dead on center in each circle. If it’s off, the pattern on the waffle will also be off-center. You’ll still have delicious waffle cups, but they won’t be as pretty.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Ice Cream
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 pizelle cup
- Calories: 86
- Sugar: 4
- Sodium: 68
- Fat: 6
- Saturated Fat: 4
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 7
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 1
- Cholesterol: 45