Brenda Gantt Net Worth 2026: Facebook Cook, Author, Innkeeper

No reputable outlet has published a net worth for Brenda Gantt, the Alabama grandmother whose Facebook cooking videos made her one of the best-known home cooks in the South. The $5.3 million figure this page used to show had no source and has been removed, as has the claim that her husband was named George Patton. What is documented is how she earns: a Facebook page with millions of followers, two cookbooks from a Birmingham publisher, and the Cottle House Bed and Breakfast in her hometown of Andalusia.

What is Brenda Gantt's net worth?

Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth and major newspapers have not estimated it. Social media earnings, book royalties and a small inn's income are all private, so any figure would be a guess, and we give none. What can be said is that her income streams are real and sizable for a retired schoolteacher: her first cookbook sold out its first printing and a reprint within months, according to AL.com, and her following reached nearly 3 million by mid-2022.

Brenda Gantt's yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

The old page claimed $200,000 a year, $16,000 a month and $555 a day, and said her videos covered fashion and beauty tips. None of that was sourced, and the second part was simply wrong: her videos are about Southern home cooking. Her income sources are:

• Facebook videos: the "Cooking with Brenda Gantt" page, where long, unedited videos filmed on her iPhone teach dishes such as biscuits, chicken and dumplings and hot water cornbread.
• Cookbooks: "It's Gonna Be Good Y'all!" (November 2021) and "Linger Around the Table Y'all" (late 2022), both published by 83Press of Birmingham.
• Cottle House Bed and Breakfast: the inn across the street from her home in Andalusia, where she served breakfast to guests three days a week in 2022.

How much each of these pays has not been reported.

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How she went viral

In April 2020, early in the pandemic, Gantt began posting cooking videos on Facebook to help young mothers at her church, Bethany Baptist, learn to cook. Her first was about dyeing Easter eggs. Her third, a buttermilk biscuit tutorial made with one hand while holding her phone in the other, went viral, passing a million views and later 8 million, according to StyleBlueprint. That led to a dedicated page, and by April 2021 she had about 2 million followers.

Her style is part of the appeal: videos often run 30 minutes, mix recipes with family stories and scripture, and rarely use measurements except for cakes, pies and cookies. She told StyleBlueprint she wants people to cook with their senses and without fuss. Her catchphrase, "It's gonna be good, y'all," became the title of her first book. Food outlets still write about her recipes; in 2026 Allrecipes tested her three-ingredient biscuits.

The second cookbook added 100 new recipes, stories and scripture, plus her own artwork. She insisted on matte rather than glossy pages so readers could write notes beside recipes without the ink smearing, and left blank pages at the back for family stories, she told AL.com. Both books were printed in the United States.

Timeline

Early life, career and family

Gantt learned to cook from her mother, who made her help in the kitchen, and got her love of gardening from her father, whose family farm was in Pickens County, Alabama, near Spring Hill. She taught school for 25 years, It's a Southern Thing reported; AL.com describes her as a former science teacher.

Her husband was George Gantt, not George Patton as the old page said. He had vascular dementia and died in 2018, and she has since offered support to families dealing with the disease. They had two children, Dallas and Hannah, and she has five grandchildren, most of whom live nearby and call her "Big Mama." Her son and daughter-in-law are police officers in Tuscaloosa, and her daughter's husband, Walt Merrell, is the Covington County district attorney.

Age

StyleBlueprint gave her age as 75 in April 2021, which puts her birth year around 1945 or 1946, making her about 80 in 2026. The old page's age of 78 and its height and weight had no source, so the physical details have been removed.

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How this page was checked

Facts come from AL.com, StyleBlueprint, It's a Southern Thing and Allrecipes. We corrected her husband's name, the nature of her content and her career, and removed the unsourced net worth and income figures.