We simply can not seem to get sufficient of celebrities and what they eat. Whether it is late-night snacks, splendid sandwiches, or every day breakfasts, our fascination with well-known foodies is endless. But relating to their recipes, it is robust to inform whose kitchen abilities are bona fide and which celebs ought to keep on with their day jobs. Luckily, Nicole McLaughlin is right here to do the soiled work of discerning hits from skips on this planet of celeb recipes.
First, McLaughlin took on everybody’s favourite ingredient, pasta, cooking up pasta dishes from the likes of Stanley Tucci and Robert Pattinson (she’s nonetheless recovering from the latter’s recipe). Now, simply in time for baking season to actually kick off, Nicole is making an attempt six extra celeb recipes. And this time, it is simply desserts.
The Best Celebrity Dessert Recipes, Ranked
sixth Place: Snoop’s Buttermizzilk Pound Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake
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Rating: 3.5/10
In her celeb pasta style check, Nicole was a bit underwhelmed by Snoop Dogg’s Spaghetti De La Hood. And sadly, his Buttermizzilk Pound Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake from Snoop’s 2018 cookbook, “From Crook to Cook,” didn’t fare significantly better.
“I wished to love that extra,” McLaughlin stated of the buttermilk-laced pound cake. She discovered the feel extra akin to cornbread than cake, a bit spongy and never dense or candy sufficient to fulfill her pound cake cravings. Fortunately, we do have loads extra community-approved pound cake recipes on our web site that may do the trick.
fifth Place: Willie Nelson’s Banana Bread
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Rating: 8.5/10
Before you get carried away, McLaughlin is fast to make clear this recipe is just not laced with something *particular*. It’s a reasonably simple banana bread recipealbeit one made with out butter or oil. Instead, it calls for 3 (slightly than the same old two) very ripe bananas, in addition to the same old suspects together with flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla. A topping of cinnamon-sugar provides the bread a pleasant crust, which you get extra of because it bakes in a 9×9-inch baking pan as an alternative of the standard loaf pan.
“It’s good,” proclaims Nicole. “It’s tender, moist, and tastes like banana. I don’t miss the oil or butter [and] I like that sugary crust on prime.” She additionally appreciates how straightforward it’s, with only one bowl and no mixer required. It’s a “would make once more” for us.
4th Place: Taylor Swift’s Chai Sugar Cookies
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Rating: 8.8/10
She could also be in her Showgirl period now, however Taylor Swift’s internet-famous Chai Cookies by no means exit of favor. Originally a Joy the Baker recipe, Swift provides a seasonal spin with a packet of chai tea and eggnog frosting.
“Tender is an understatement,” says McLaughlin of those cookies. “You actually get all of the spices, and you’ll style the trace of eggnog. It’s positively buttery, and it actually melts in your mouth.” And Taylor, should you’re studying this, Nicole has two professional suggestions: add a pinch of salt to the frosting to stability out the candy and use a wine glass or one other cup to around the cookies into good circles whereas they’re nonetheless heat.
third Place: Al Roker’s Sweet Potato Poon
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Rating: 9/10
What is a “poon,” you ask? We do not actually know, however it appears to be Al Roker’s household’s riff on candy potato casserole. But in contrast to candy potato casserole, Roker’s Sweet Potato Poon is served as a dessert and options a further shock ingredient: crushed pineapple.
Topped with marshmallows and baked till bubbly and golden, this dessert casserole is pure consolation. And McLaughlin contends this isn’t a candy potato casserole—it is a candy potato dessert. “I’d problem you, should you like candy potato pie, attempt making this as an alternative this 12 months.”
2nd Place Runner-Up: Benny Blanco’s Banana Pudding
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Rating: 9.2/10
If you are not acquainted, Benny Blanco is a music producer, actor, and, notably, Selena Gomez’s (lately wed!) husband. Blanco additionally co-authored a cookbook, “Open Wide,” in 2024, so he is aware of a factor or two about cooking.
This banana pudding recipewhich he says is a favourite of greatest pal (and Grammy award-winning musician) SZA, is a semi-homemade masterpiece. Mascarpone and sweetened condensed milk elevate what would in any other case be a reasonably normal banana pudding with layers of pudding, freshly sliced bananas, and vanilla wafer cookies.
“The thickness and richness of the custard is [chef’s kiss],” in keeping with Nicole. “The solely factor I’d do otherwise is use vanilla pudding as an alternative of banana-flavored pudding, as a result of you’ll be able to form of style that banana taste is a bit more synthetic, and having actual bananas in there makes this an actual banana pudding.”
1st Place Winner: Reese Witherspoon’s Derby Pie
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Rating: 9.8/10
Now, Reese Witherspoon wrote an entire dang cookbook a couple of years in the past, so you’ll suppose she have to be fairly good within the kitchen. And you’ll be right. McLaughlin was blown away by Reese’s Derby Piewhich is a Southern spin on pecan pie made with pecans in addition to walnuts and chocolate.
McLaughlin swaps in a store-bought pie crust for home made, par-baking it earlier than including all of the gooey, nutty filling. Nicole was significantly impressed by how properly the pie filling holds collectively when sliced, including that it is buttery and completely candy however not too candy. In truth, it is so good, this Derby Pie instantly earned a spot on Nicole’s Thanksgiving menu. Reese—you nailed it.
