Homemade Waffle Bowls filled with tart apricot and creme fraiche ice cream and sweetened with brown sugar almonds and honey. The perfect adult indulgence.
Grilled Apricot Ice Cream in Homemade Waffle Bowls
Summer is in full swing! I hope everyone is celebrating today with The 3 F’s – friends, family, and food. We sure are! We still have a month before school is back in session and we are taking advantage of everyday!
I’ve got some scrumptious Apricot Ice Cream and Homemade Waffle Bowls just waiting for a meet up!
Aren’t these just beautiful?
Pizzelle Cookies are easy to make and so delicious. I love them during the holidays.
I tried a few different ways to shape the bowls. The first thing I tried was shaping them over a lemon. This proved difficult because the cookie is very hot and most of them looked like a Tri-pointed hat. The more “frilly” looking bowls were made this way. I thought they were pretty, unique, and very feminine.
Then I got a dessert bowl. This is just a small one cup bowl that I pushed the hot cookie into and let it harden. This provided a more distinct bowl shape and didn’t burn my fingers.
I loved how they turned out.
They were so pretty with the flower design in the middle.
Playing off the brown sugar and honey in the ice cream, I decided to make some brown sugar almond crunchies and honey to it. I liked snacking on the extra crunchies just bu themselves. I’m sure they would be yummy on a spinach salad with Mandarin oranges. So not healthy, but so good!
I hope that you are having a great summer! Enjoy!
If you’re looking for another way to serve the apricot ice cream, you can serve it in a pie crust bowl, a cinnamon sugar tortilla bowls, or a chocolate candy bowls!
This recipe is part three of a three part series including Grilled Apricots and Apricot Ice Cream.
Homemade Waffle Bowls
Homemade Waffle Bowls filled with tart apricot and creme fraiche ice cream and sweetened with brown sugar almonds and honey. The perfect adult indulgence.
Ingredients
For the Pizzelle Cookies
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 3/4 cup melted butter, allow time to cool
- 1 Tbls vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- powdered sugar for dusting (If you're just making the cookies)
For the Brown Sugar Almonds
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 - 3/4 cup almond slivers
Instructions
For the Pizzelle Cookies
- Preheat your Betty Crocker
iron as directed.
- Combine all ingredients until batter is smooth
- Drop a heaping tablespoon of batter onto the rear half iron and close.
- Cook for about 30 seconds and then carefully remove and cool on a wire rack.
- Lay flat on a cooling rack for cookies. Once cooled, dust the cookies with some powered sugar.
- For bowls, press down into a small dessert bowl to cool and harden. Remove when ready.
- Keep in a sealed container until ready to use.
For the Brown Sugar Almonds
- Place half your brown sugar into a small fry pan, over medium low heat and melt it. Continually stir it with a spatula. As soon as it's melted, add in the almond slivers. You want enough almonds to get coated in the brown sugar. Remove from heat. Add a bit more brown sugar to coat the almonds and provide a granular texture. Transfer to a cookie sheet to completely cool.
- Break up into small chunks and sprinkle over your ice cream.
- Top the ice cream with a bit of honey for a little extra sweetener.
- Enjoy your summer.
Recipe Notes
Recipe for the Pizzele Cookies from Betty Crocker

Kristina Bridges (@2CrochetHooks) says
July 4, 2014 at 9:24 pmI love the addition of the waffle bowls! Sound simply deeeelish!
Karyn Granrud says
July 13, 2014 at 9:02 pmI know you can buy them, but it was fun to make them.
Stacy says
July 8, 2014 at 6:04 amIve got to go check the grilled apricot post – that part just sounds delicious to me! This looks yummy!
Stacy
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Karyn Granrud says
July 13, 2014 at 8:52 pmThey were great! Thanks for stopping by!
Lori Hart says
July 8, 2014 at 11:51 amThis is perfect for the hot days of summer. I found your recipe over at the Maybe She Made It Tuesday link party. I host Tickle My Tastebuds Tuesday and would love it if you would come over and share this recipe. I’m sure our party goers would love it! Here is the link http://bit.ly/1jlh94r. Have a wonderful day!
Karyn Granrud says
July 13, 2014 at 8:51 pmThanks for stopping by! The ice cream was great!
Michele @ Alwayzbakin says
July 8, 2014 at 9:13 pmA pizzelle maker is definitely on my shopping list!
Karyn Granrud says
July 13, 2014 at 8:48 pmI was luck to inherit mine from my grandmother. She had all the original stuff that came with it.
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July 10, 2014 at 10:55 pmoh my! those bowls! those crunchies! that ice cream! i’ll take 75 please!
what too many? ok 74 then.
Karyn Granrud says
July 13, 2014 at 8:44 pmSure! I can swing 75…if you come help me make them 🙂
Bill @thewoksoflife says
July 17, 2014 at 4:21 amThese look incredible. Thanks for sharing these beauties
Diane @ Vintage Zest says
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Julianne @ Beyond Frosting says
August 11, 2014 at 11:46 amThese waffle bowls are totally fun!