• 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. • 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 delicious recipes for over two decades.

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.

Garten's tiramisu is featured in her cookbook "Family Style" and in an early episode of her show, "Barefoot Contes

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