Ina Garten's Brownie Pudding Is Taking Over The Internet 17 Years Later (And After Trying It, It Deserves ALL The Attention)

Ina Garten has been beloved by generations, whether they've work her cookbooks, watched her TV shows, oregon adjacent had the privilege of visiting the Barefoot Contessa store successful the Hamptons erstwhile it was inactive successful concern (ugh, jealous!). Now, a caller procreation has discovered the magic of Queen Ina connected TikTok.

Ina's celebrated look for brownie pudding has precocious gone viral connected the app. Unlike regular brownies that tin beryllium chopped into squares, the brownie pudding has a looser texture, with a hard extracurricular and molten center. Ina credits the look to cookbook writer and specialty nutrient store proprietor Anna Pump. Ina shared the look successful her cookbook, Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics, and went connected to recreate it successful the tv adaptation of the cookbook. In November, The Food Network's TikTok relationship reposted the video clip of Ina making the dessert. Now, determination are countless videos of fans recreating it.

From the looks of it, this warm, chocolaty dainty it seems similar the cleanable vacation dessert, casual to marque and with rave reviews.

One of the first videos I saw of the dessert was from @izziebebusy, which present has implicit 10 cardinal views. The video says the dessert is "the champion instauration Ina has fixed this world." Color maine intrigued.

The look has made its mode to different societal media platforms, too. One Reddit station calls it "the champion happening I've ever enactment successful my mouth." "It’s crispy AND gooey, I person nary SFW mode to picture my archetypal bite," the poster added.

Meanwhile, users connected ye olde Instagram besides had emphatic reactions. "WOW!! It tastes precisely similar a cocoa soufflé. Rich, decadent, sweet, PERFECT!" @allyqueeks wrote.

Brownies are successful my apical 5 favourite desserts of each time. Given however casual they are to whip up, I spell done periods of clip wherever I marque them weekly. At the aforesaid time, I emotion the thought of having a brownie-type dessert that's a spot much molten. Top it each disconnected by the information that this look was approved by my favourite bob-rocking, scarf-wearing TV chef, Ms. Ina Garten? I had to marque it.

How to Make Ina's Brownie Pudding

I already had each the ingredients to marque the recipe, truthful it was nary sweat to marque connected a weeknight. To marque the recipe, you'll request butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla (I utilized extract alternatively of vanilla beans), cocoa powder, all-purpose flour, and vanilla ice cream for serving.

I halved the recipe, utilizing an 8-by-8-inch circular cookware alternatively of a 9x12 oval pan. But much connected this later. Here's however I made it:

STEP #1: Beat unneurotic the sweetener and eggs connected medium-high until the substance is airy and thick, astir 10 minutes.

While I typically marque desserts by hand, it was worthy getting retired my basal mixer for this.

STEP #2: In the meantime, harvester the flour and cocoa pulverization successful a abstracted bowl.

STEP #3: While the mixer is on, melt the food and acceptable it speech to chill slightly. Since I halved the recipe, I melted a azygous instrumentality of food successful the microwave for 1 minute.

STEP #3: Reduce the mixer velocity to low, and adhd the cocoa-flour substance and vanilla until conscionable combined.

STEP #4: With the mixer inactive running, dilatory adhd successful the cooled, melted butter.

STEP #5: Pour the substance into a lightly buttered pan.

STEP #6: Create a h2o bath by placing the cookware with the batter wrong into a bigger pan, filling the larger cookware up with astir an inch of blistery water. Ina uses a 9-by-12-inch cookware for the brownie pudding, placing it wrong a roasting cookware for the h2o bath. I placed my 8-inch circular cookware into an oven-safe cookware instead.

STEP #7: Bake astatine 325ºF — the archetypal look takes an hour. Since I utilized a smaller quantity, I baked my brownie pudding for 45 minutes.

STEP #8: Serve blistery from the oven with vanilla crystal pick and ta-da! You're done!

To support it real: it would've been astir intolerable for maine not to similar this dessert. The sensation is similar a brownie, which is simply a dessert that we've established is simply a 10/10 successful my book. Chocolaty, buttery, rich... what's not to like?

But the texture is wherever we shingle things up. The outer furniture is satisfyingly crispy, with an audible crunch, similar a bladed meringue. Meanwhile, the wrong is akin to a lava barroom and astir mousse-like from the aerial whipped into the eggs. It's brushed and gooey, similar an underbaked brownie oregon cake, but successful a bully way.

While I saw immoderate TikTok posts saying the dessert is excessively saccharine with the crystal cream, I thought it was perfect. I couldn't ideate having this rich, warm, chocolaty dessert without being balanced retired by the cold, creamy crystal cream. The brownie pudding was besides unthinkable aboriginal on, served astatine country somesthesia — inactive with the crystal cream, of course.

What truly works astir this look is that it takes the familiar, crowd-pleasing sensation of brownies and spins it connected its caput with a caller rima feel. It's besides beauteous stress-free to make, adjacent with my canine crowding maine successful the room portion I made it. The look was truthful straightforward that I didn't get overwhelmed.

I would 100% marque Ina's brownie pudding again, particularly fixed the simplicity of the ingredients. If you've been looking for an easy dessert for a vacation enactment oregon potluck, I couldn't urge it enough.