Mbo; thanks for your take on the pronunciation of pizzelles! I have heard a million ways (wlel, a few, anyway). My ex-boyfriend is Italian and swears it is "pit-ZELL-ees" and when I was growing up I thought it was "pit-ZALES" (ya know, like cavatelles?)--put never, never, never call 'em "pizzles"... I have never made them with the powdered sugar on top, maybe I will try that...I owe a batch to the old lady in the North End shop who sold me the iron...I had bought a cheapo crappy one at a kitchen store that was disappointing and useless; a couple weeks later, just after Christmas, when a friend and I went into the Italian neighborhood for lunch, I saw a "real" authentic pizzelle iron in the window of a shop and had to have it...the lady who sold it was very excited i had made them as a child; she offered to come over and demonstrate how to make them in case I had forgotten! How sweet of her. The least she deserves is a batch of cookies...

peg