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 - ...

As soon as I hit my mom’s front door, I smelled them. The anise aroma in the air gave it away. My mother was inside making her famous pizzelles. There are only three times each year I can count on ...

12 Days of Cookies is a daily series this December in which local bakers show off their holiday treats. You can make a version of the cookie in the photograph with ...

Maggie Masci is one of a few women who credits her mother-in-law for teaching her how to cook. The Pennsylvania native was 13 when she began watching her future mother-in-law, Christine, in the ...

“Pizzelle” means “round, flat and small,” and pizzelle are traditional Italian cookies that are round and flat like a pizza. They’re made with flour, sugar, butter and eggs, whisked together with ...

There’s something about cookie making during the holidays that grabs me. I guess it’s because some cookies are made only during this celebratory season. Many times these are heirloom, sentimental ...

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 ...