As soon as the Halloween decorations are down, I'm already plotting and planning my holiday baking. I love poring over old family recipes and cookbooks, trying to choose that year's treats for our holiday gatherings. My mom made pizzelle every holiday season to give to family and friends. She liked the vanilla version, and sometimes she'd dip them in chocolate. A few years back I got my own iron, and decided to roll some of the pizzelle up and pipe in a cream filling. We jokingly called them "fauxnolis," and the name has stuck ever since. When my Nielsen-Massey Holiday Flavors Bundle arrived, I immediately thought of those fauxnolis, but I wanted to change them up a bit. I used the Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract in the chocolate pizzelle and the Pure Peppermint Extract in the cannoli filling. I used semisweet chocolate because that's what the majority of my family loves. They'd be great with dark chocolate too. My mom's original re
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