Pizzelle Italian waffles
Pizzelle are a thin Italian waffle. When just cooked the waffles may be bent into various shapes such as cones or tubes.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 32 g sugar
- 22 g light oil i.e. without a strong flavour
- rind of 1/2 orange
- tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon ginger
- tablespoon brandy
- teaspoon anise essence
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 76 g plain flour
- 44 g self raising flour
Instructions
- Add all ingredients except flour into a bowl and mix well.
- Sift flour into bowl and mix into a thick paste.
- Oil the iron (a light oil spray works well)
- Heat up the iron on the stove top, turn occasionally to heat both sides.
- Open the iron and add a tablespoon of waffle paste and return to stove top.
- Squeeze the iron shut and turn every 30-45 seconds to keep heat even.
- After a minute open to check colour
- Tip out onto a cooling rack. (While hot they may be moulded into shapes)