Tested American dessert recipes, from pies and cakes to cookies and holiday bakes. We bake each one from the chef’s real recipe and note every fix so yours works first time.
Pioneer Woman overnight oats soak rolled oats with milk, Greek yogurt, maple syrup, and chia seeds into a creamy no-cook breakfast. Everything comes together in 5 minutes from thepioneerwoman.com, so the fridge does the rest overnight. The recipe starts with a yogurt and chia seed base instead of just milk and oats, which thickens the …
Pioneer Woman hummingbird cake layers ripe banana, crushed pineapple, cinnamon, and chopped pecans under thick cream cheese frosting. At around 815 calories per serving it takes about two hours and ten minutes, and the recipe yields enough for 12 generous slices. Ree skips creaming butter and sugar entirely, since a full cup of canola oil …
Pioneer Woman strawberry oatmeal bars from Ree Drummond press an oat crumble around a layer of strawberry preserves and bake until golden at 350°F. And the recipe makes 12 bars at approximately 310 calories each in about 50 minutes, since the entire crumble mixes in one bowl with just 7 ingredients. Most fruit bar recipes …
Pioneer Woman dump cake from Ree Drummond layers canned cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple under dry cake mix with sliced butter and margarine baked at 350°F. And the dessert serves 12 at approximately 350 calories per serving in about 1 hour and 15 minutes, since there is no mixing and no bowls to wash. …
Pioneer Woman pumpkin roll from The Pioneer Woman site bakes a spiced pumpkin cake on a sheet pan and rolls it in a towel while hot before filling with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. And the roll serves 10 to 12 at approximately 380 calories per slice in about 4 hours and 45 minutes, since most …
Ina Garten’s red velvet cupcakes pair a cocoa-tinted buttermilk batter with cream cheese frosting at about 450 calories per cupcake. Her Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? cookbook makes 15 per batch in 55 minutes, since the bake does most of the work. Ina’s frosting combines cream cheese, butter, and confectioners’ sugar but she warns …
Ina Garten’s pecan squares pack honey, brown sugar, butter, and two pounds of chopped pecans over a buttery crust at about 1010 calories per square. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook puts this at 55 minutes for 20 large squares, and most of the work is just melting and stirring. The recipe leans on honey and brown …
Ina Garten’s blueberry ricotta cake layers butter, ricotta, sour cream, and fresh blueberries into a tender crumb at around 415 calories per slice. From her Go-To Dinners cookbook, this one takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes since the cake needs 15 minutes to cool before serving. What sets this version apart is the ricotta …
Ina Garten chocolate cake uses cocoa, buttermilk, and hot coffee for a two-layer dessert at about 850 calories per slice. The recipe serves 8 from Barefoot Contessa at Home, and the whole thing takes about 2 hours since most of that is just cooling. Instead of creaming butter into the batter like most chocolate cakes, …
Ina Garten salted caramel brownies pack 14 ounces of chocolate chips plus unsweetened chocolate into a fudgy batter at approximately 495 calories per bar. Everything comes together in about 75 minutes from Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, so you get 12 thick bars without any fussy decorating. Ina skips creaming butter and sugar and melts the butter …