Ina Garten’s cheese puffs are light, golden gougères made with Gruyere, Parmesan, and a rich milk-based choux dough at about 55 calories each. At 40 puffs per batch they take just 40 minutes from her Barefoot in Paris cookbook, and most of that is hands-on prep. Most gougère recipes have you add eggs by hand …
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’s Bloody Mary mixes tomato juice, fresh celery, horseradish, and vodka into a brunch cocktail at around 170 calories per drink. It serves six and takes 45 minutes from her Food Network recipe, since most of that time is just chilling. Instead of dropping a celery stick in the glass and calling it done, …
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 …
Ina Garten frozen key lime pie fills a graham cracker crust with condensed milk, egg yolks, and lime juice at about 540 calories per slice. It serves 8 from Barefoot Contessa Family Style, and takes about 35 minutes of hands-on work because the freezer does the rest. The recipe starts by beating egg yolks and …
Ina Garten bourbon chocolate pecan pie folds chocolate chips and diced pecans into a brown sugar filling with Maker’s Mark bourbon. At approximately 595 calories per slice, this Go-To Dinners recipe takes about 55 minutes since the store-bought crust cuts out all the pastry work. What sets this version apart is the brown sugar and …
Ina Garten blueberry ricotta breakfast cake folds fresh berries and whole-milk ricotta into a single-layer cake at about 420 calories per slice. From Go-To Dinners, it serves 8 and takes about 75 minutes since most of that is just the oven doing the work. Most blueberry cakes use butter and milk for moisture, but Ina …
Ina Garten Beatty’s 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 …
Ina Garten’s Indonesian ginger chicken coats quartered chickens in a sticky glaze of honey, soy sauce, fresh ginger, and garlic, then bakes them until the sauce turns rich and dark. It comes together in about 75 minutes plus an overnight soak. This one goes all the way back to The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook from 1999, …
