Ina Garten’s Brownie Pudding Requires Butter, Eggs, and 57 Years of Marriage

KEY POINTS

•Ina Garten and her husband Jeffrey celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary with her viral brownie pudding recipe.
•The brownie pudding, initially featured in her 2008 cookbook, became a TikTok sensation after a Food Network clip aired on November 7.
•The recipe uses specific ingredients like framboise liqueur and demands precise steps including bringing eggs to room temperature and a 10-minute mixing ritual.

Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa who apparently doubles as a marriage endurance coach, just celebrated 57 years with her husband Jeffrey by baking a brownie pudding that’s been TikTok famous since November 7. The recipe, born from a 2008 cookbook and an oven-butter bath, originally wowed her college crush with brownies mailed from dorm to dorm. Key secrets include 4 eggs brought deliberately to room temperature by soaking (not poaching) in warm water, ½ pound of butter because apparently any less is felony brownie abuse, and a splash of framboise liqueur that ‘you really can't taste but magically makes everything better.’ If you’re feeling lazy, Garten threatens arrest for brownie missers without butter. Plus, she insists on scraping seeds from a vanilla bean—because who’s got time to avoid skincare routines when you can obsess over vanilla beans? And to cap it all, 10 minutes of handheld mixer arm exercise is the holiday ritual nobody asked for but someone’s got to do it. A true love story baked with absurd precision.

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Brownie pudding requires four eggs in a warm bath, half a pound of butter, and 57 years of marriage to justify the effort. Meanwhile, I’m still microwaving cake in a mug and calling it gourmet.

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