SWEETS

Chocolate-Jam Pizzelles

I do not understand cookies that don’t contain chocolate.

It’s not that I’m such a huge chocolate person – I’m not – it’s that chocolate just seems like a necessary component of a cookie. Sugar cookies, for example? Do not get. (Although the ones I made for last weekend’s cookie party – the recipe is coming up later this week – were as excellent as a non-chocolate-containing cookie can be.)

So when I visited my in-laws in Ohio over Thanksgiving and my mother-in-law raved about these flattish, extremely boring-looking waffle cookies called “pizzelles”, I wasn’t all that excited. And then I tried one just because it was sitting right there next to me, and:

oh.

REALLY good. Like, can’t-stop-eating-them good.

When I got home, I decided to try adding chocolate (and jam) to them…and now?

Now they are great.

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What You Need (makes 8 sandwich cookies):

16 pizzelles

Best-quality jam or marmalade of your choice

About 1 cup best-quality chocolate chips

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What You Do:

Set 7 pizzelles on a cookie sheet on wax paper. Spread thinly with jam or marmalade.

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Top with the remaining cookies to make sandwiches.

Melt your chocolate chips in the microwave (stirring in between each 30-second increment) or in a double-boiler.

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Dip the pizzelle sandwiches into the melted chocolate to coat half of each cookie. (I ended up scraping off the excess chocolate with the back of a spoon so that it wouldn’t be too thick.)

Let set in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.

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Serve. (Preferably with coffee and Santa mitts.)

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Pictured: Bed Bath & Beyond plates, mugs & oven mitt.

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