This waffle iron brownies recipe first ran in a 1953 issue of Yankee, appearing in a story called “Recipes from Old ‘Receipt’ Books” by Nancy Dixon. The waffle iron gives the brownies crispy ridges, but the inside remains rich and fudgy. They’re novel and fun and incredibly easy to make.
By Amy Traverso
Feb 05 2018
This waffle iron brownies recipe first ran in a 1953 issue of Yankee, appearing in a story called “Recipes from Old ‘Receipt’ Books” by Nancy Dixon. The waffle iron gives the brownies crispy ridges, but the inside remains rich and fudgy. They’re novel and fun and incredibly easy to make.
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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