My publisher put out a call for short videos highlighting our family holiday traditions. One that stands out to me from my childhood, and that I’ve carried on as a mom is to make pizzelle cookies around Christmas time. You need a pizzelle iron to make them and I’m still borrowing my mom’s when she’s in town. The family press gets passed around from aunt to aunt. Whoever ends up last one year, goes first the next year. Here’s a peak at the process: