- I’ve been making my way through Ina Garten’s dessert recipes.
- Her blueberry-ricotta breakfast cake is bright and light, and her brownies are outrageously good.
- But my favorite is her mocha icebox cake, which Garten said was so good it’d make “grown men weep.”
In her very first cookbook, “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook,” Ina Garten wrote that “a homemade dessert is a special reward.” And she’s been gifting her fans wonderful recipes for over two decades.
Garten gave up a job at the White House to run a 400-square-foot specialty food shop called Barefoot Contessa. She turned that store into an empire that includes 13 cookbooks and a 22-year run on the Food Network.
Garten’s cookbooks helped me get back into baking, and now I’ve been slowly making my way through many of her sweet treats — including one she says is so good it’ll make “grown men weep.”
Here’s how they all stack up.
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