Welcome to Rate The Recipe! Where I rate recipes (usually for baking) that I found on social media, websites, or Food Network!
In this blog, I will be looking over and rating a recipe for brownie pudding. I found this recipe while watching a Food Network show called Barefoot Contessa, hosted by the one and only Ina Garten. Ina Garten is a recipe icon, with her history of professional cooking going all the way back to when she bought her first specialty food store, The Barefoot Contessa.
Before finding out about her brownie pudding recipe, I made her ‘Outrageous Brownies’ recipe, which instantly made a spot on my list for my favorite recipes. So I knew right away that I had to make the pudding.
This recipe was a little similar to the normal brownie recipe in the beginning. The first step for both of their batters was to mix the sugar and eggs. But for the pudding, the sugar and egg mixture had to be mixed together until it became a thick, custard-like consistency, and that is where they began to differ.
The rest of the recipe was very simple, all I had to do was sift the flour and cocoa powder together, separated from the egg-sugar mixture. The recipe called for the seeds of a vanilla bean, but since I did not have that, a good mixture of vanilla extract and vanilla paste made a great substitute. After I added the vanilla bean substitutes, I mixed the dried ingredients with the wet ingredients to create a chocolatey, sweet batter.
Since the goal for the recipe was to create a moist brownie-like dish, instead of just plain old brownies, the batter had to be baked with warm tap water underneath the dish that the brownie batter was in. The water evaporated in the oven to then be soaked up by the batter, which made it so it could be baked and maintain its consistency.
My second favorite part about this recipe was how quickly the entire dish cooled off after being taken out of the oven, especially with an hour of baking time. But obviously, my favorite part about the entire recipe was the flavor, the texture, just everything about this dish when consumed. It was both smooth and cakey in a way that just made sense. The richness of the chocolate was shocking, considering it just required cocoa powder. If you’re a chocolate lover or enjoy the gooey inside slices of a brownie, this recipe is just for you.
My rating for this Ina Garten recipe exceeds the limit with an 11/10. Everything about this recipe is just absolute perfection. I would recommend this recipe to anyone I know a million times over and over again.
