Anyone have any great recipes for pizzelles?

I love lemon and anise flavors. I have one but need to find my recipe book.

Oh man, our family uses a pizelle maker to make these cookies! They are Dutch stroopwafel cookies and are the best on the planet!

Stroopwafels

Cookies:
10 cups flour
1/2 lb. Lard (shortening now days!)
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
1 lb. Brown sugar
1/2 lb. Butter
1 cup milk
2 pigs. Yeast

Filling:
3/4 lb. Butter
3 cups dark Karo syrup
3 cups white sugar
2 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon

Cookies: Mix yeast with warm water. Mix with other ingredients. Let set 2 hours, at least! In the fridge overnight is what we do.

Filling: Boil together for 5 minutes.

Make 1 1/2 inch balls out of the dough. Bigger if you have a good sized iron! Do the whole batch first! Then bake the cookies in the pizelle iron, one or two (if you have a double iron) at a time. Have a cotton kitchen towel and a really sharp knife ready. As soon as the cookie is baked you have to slice them in half the flat way. Put a tablespoon of filling in each cookie to make a sandwich, and place on a waxed paper lined sheet to cool. These freeze really well which is good because it makes a lot! However, they're so good you might not have to! Ha!

I know this recipe seems really difficult and time consuming, but it's so worth it! My family calls them buggy step cookies because when my great grandparents came from Holland my grandma wanted an iron to make these. Since none were available here my grandpa made one from a pair of buggy steps. He forged them into a scissors like iron and my grandma would make one cookie at a time over her stove. A gas stove works the best, but I have electric so that's what I use when I'm doing it the old fashioned way. My aunt inherited the original pair, but my mom bought a pair of steps at an auction and I had another pair made for her. My sister has those now, so I had two more pair made and will get two more made when I come across more buggy steps. All of my sister's will have their own pair, but we always end up using the pizelle iron anyway!

These are my favorite kind; however, they are really dense and not light like a lot of pizzelles.


Mrs. Palatino's Pizzelles

Southern Italian Style!
Servings:Makes About 60
Prep Time:15 Minutes Total Time:1 Hour
INGREDIENTS
* 6 eggs
* 2 cups sugar
* 1 cup butter, margarine or oil, melted (1/2)
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 7 cups flour (all purpose)
* 1 teaspoon anise seed (optional)
* 4 tablespoons baking powder

DIRECTIONS

* 1 Beat eggs and sugar.

* 2 Add cooled melted butter or margarine, and vanilla and anise seeds.

* 3 Sift flour and baking powder and add to egg mixture.

* 4 Batter will have a dough like consistency.

* 5 1 inch round balls can be formed to be placed on the grids.