“I always give out my recipes,” Neil Zevnik, Elizabeth Taylor’s former personal chef, tells TODAY.com. “I’m not one of those chefs.”

He was Taylor’s personal chef for nearly a decade in the ‘90s, and says her favorite dessert always had to be within arm’s reach.

“She had a little tiny refrigerator under one of her nightstands and I would keep a container of Toffee Fudgies in there at all times,” he says. “Should she be seized with the desire for a Toffee Fudgie, it was right there on hand.”

The recipe for Elizabeth Taylor’s Toffee Fudgies — exclusively shared with TODAY.com — makes a dessert that’s “midway between a brownie and fudge,” he says. It’s like edible brownie batter, suspended in gooey animation.

Zevnik says the treat had gone through “significant changes” over the years to

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