GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The holidays bring plenty of festive celebrations and family traditions. Our Candace Monacelli and Tessa DiTirro grew up making one Italian family tradition called pizzelles.

Whether or not you're Italian, chances are your Christmas cookie plate includes pizzelles, the classic wafer cookies that are intensely popular in Northeast Ohio. "Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York - ...

Tracie Ritchie, the owner of Simply Homemade Pizzelles in Holden. Over the past two years, Tracie Ritchie has built her cookie-making operation, Simply Homemade Pizzelles, from a one-woman business to ...

You cannot buy a great Pizzelle waffle cookie. The genuine homemade ones are so thin and delicate, that they cannot be shipped or handled. Commercially made and shipped Pizzelles are NOT acceptable.

Cathleen's Christmas Pizzelles is a favorite holiday treat in the Kelly household during the holidays. This particular desert comes from my wife Cathleen's family, the Kuchtas of Wickliffe in Lake ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Pittsburgh has many holiday traditions, such as Light Up Night, ice skating at PPG Place, the windows at Macy's. And because Pittsburgh has long been a diverse city with many ...

You are sooo right. My late mother Gemma's Pizzelles were the best I ever had. Even though I inherited and use her old Pizzelle iron, her same recipe, and techniques, my wife tells me that my ...

I loathe hard cookies. There's just no point to them. If a cookie could be confused with Civil War hard tack, I throw it out. That's why I love the ricotta cookie. It is soft, sweet and can be frozen ...

Pizzelles, a centuries-old specialty of the Tuscan town of Montecatini, are a standard at most Italian-American bakeries and espresso shops. These crisp, cracker-thin, anise-flavored cookies are fun ...