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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was understood that each Italian family had their own special dishes that were assumed to be better than anyone else's family. In my family, my Nonna Francesca owned the neighborhood pasta bragging ...

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 ...