Originally Posted by dabbler312

Our local church has an annual scandinavian festival and they sell pizzelles - here is their recipe

6 eggs
1 1/2 Cup sugar
1 Cup margarine - melted and cooled
2 TBSP vanilla, or almond or anise to taste
Beat eggs and add sugar and vanilla
3 1/2 Cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
Sift together the flour and baking powder and add to the first mixture.
Dough will be sticky. Drop by tsp on pizzelle iron.
OPTION - for chocolate pizzelles add 1/2 cup cocoa sifted with the flour and baking powder mixture.
Can also add 1 cup of very finely chopped walnuts or pecans.
Use small cookie scoop to put batter on iron; close iron tightly and hold for a moment; check for doneness.
Cookies brown very quickly.