Mom Mom’s Italian Pizzelles

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Makes 56 mini pizzelles

Serving size: 1 pizzelle

1 ½ cup all-purpose flour or gluten free 1 to 1 baking flour

¾ cup organic cane sugar 

1 teaspoon baking powder 

¾ cup vegan butter, melted

⅓ cup unsweetened applesauce 

2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

1 teaspoon almond extract 

Organic confectioners’ sugar, for dusting 

Heat a pizzelle iron according to the manufacturer’s directions. 

Add the flour, sugar, and baking powder to a bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, whisk to combine. Add the butter, applesauce, vanilla extract and almond extract and beat to combine, do not overmix.  

Add the batter to the prepared pizzelle iron and press for 60 seconds, until the steams stops coming out. For the mini pizzelle maker I have I used about 1 teaspoon batter per pizzelle. Remove from the pizzelle maker and repeat until all of the batter is used up. 

Dust finished pizzelle’s with confectioners sugar. 

Variations:

Chocolate Pizzelles: add 3 tablespoons fair trade cocoa powder and 3 tablespoons sugar to the basic mixture with an additional 2 tablespoon applesauce. 

Nut Pizzelles: Add 1 cup of very finely chopped nuts to pizzelle batter. 

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