Snowflake Cookies

      We finally got some snow here in the Midwest, pretty much our first real snow and it's mid-January!  The kids also had their first snow day, which is always fun. The delicate snow-covered trees got me thinking about pizzelles, which are light little italian cookies that look a lot like snowflakes and go perfect with hot cocoa after playing in the snow.
     This is one of those recipes that requires a new little gadget, a pizzelle press (ok, twist my arm). My mom passed along a vintage krumkake maker, a seriously troublesome device that presses batter and is held over a hot burner to bake.  After burning the heck out of my fingers and cookies, saying too many bad words cursing the hearty and stoic Norwegians, I broke down and bought an electric machine. It works like a charm, and my cookies are beautiful.
      This batter is easiest to make in a food processor, but can be mixed by hand.  Regular flour works as well as cake flour, but the cookies are far lighter with cake flour.  Now I've opened up a whole new world of fun cookies to explore: next up cannelloni, stroopwafel, krumkake...

Perfect Pizzelles

Vanilla
1 1/2 cups cake flour (I use Swan's Down, be careful, Pillbury Softasilk has dairy and egg)
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup melted dairy-free margarine (I use Fleischmann's Unsalted Margarine) 

3/4 cup coconut milk beverage (like Silk Pure Coconut)

1 teaspoon vanilla

Chocolate

1 1/4 cups cake flour
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/8 teaspoon salt 

1/2 cup melted margarine
3/4 cup coconut milk beverage
1 teaspoon vanilla

1.) Same method for both type of batter!
2.) In a food processor, mix the dry ingredients together: flour, powdered sugar, salt and cocoa (if making chocolate).
3.) Add the wet ingredients: margarine, coconut milk, vanilla. Pulse until smooth.
4.) Heat up the pizzelle press and bake!

It's impossible not to grin with all this snow!

The neighborhood crew inside warming up and drying off!

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