Garten's cake also got the top spot in my ranking of Barefoot Contessa breakfast recipes. Garten's blueberry-ricotta breakfast ... using another thin, crisp chocolate-chip cookie for the recipe ...

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 ...