Top TikTok Recipes: Most Viewed and Tested

Alex Earl's cotton candy ice cream is delightfully sweet, combining vanilla and sprinkles for a fun treat.

### Top 10 Most Viewed TikTok Recipes: A Culinary Journey
* 🍦 Today, I am testing the ten most viewed TikTok recipes, including one that has garnered **500 million views**.
* 🍬 The tenth recipe features Alix Earle's **cotton candy ice cream**, which has **12 million views**, and it turns out her family owns an **ice cream shop in New Jersey**.
* 🥄 I had to create the ice cream base from scratch by heating cream and milk until **small bubbles formed**, then mixing in egg yolks and sugar to make a **custard**.
* 🥑 Moving on to the ninth recipe with **13.6 million views**, I attempted to make avocado pickles, which involved mixing various ingredients to create a **Mediterranean-style guacamole**.
* 🌮 The eighth recipe, which has **21 million views**, is a pesto that sparked the "**Call Me Crazy**" trend on TikTok, and I used **high-quality olive oil from Raza** to enhance the flavor.
* 🍪 The seventh recipe, with **26.5 million views**, was a croissant filled with **chocolate chip cookie dough**, originally inspired by a **Parisian pastry shop**, which I found to be **delicious yet indulgent**.
* 🐟 In sixth place with 30.2 million views is Emily Mariko's salmon dish, where she uses **leftover salmon, butter, and lemon** to create a **delightful meal**.
* 🥗 The fifth recipe, a cucumber salad reminiscent of California rolls, received **42.8 million views** and showcased the creator's **impressive knife skills and careful preparation**.
* 🥤 The fourth most viewed recipe, with **50 million views**, was a homemade Capri Sun made from fresh fruits, which turned out **surprisingly delicious**.
* 🧀 The second most viewed recipe, with **over 110 million views**, was a mac and cheese that featured an **astonishing amount of cheese**, leading to a **rich and creamy dish**.
* 🍗 Finally, the top recipe, with **56.9 million views**, is Jack Cho's BBQ crispy chicken, which involves a unique method of **coating chicken in crushed BBQ chips** before frying.

I Tested the MOST VIEWED TikTok Recipes (again) 👀

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10: Alix Earle's Cotton Candy Ice Cream (12 million views)

Alix's family runs an ice cream shop in New Jersey

Make your own ice cream base: fresh cream, warming milk

Egg yolks, sugar mixed with milk to make custard

Add salt, vanilla, and cotton candy flavoring to the custard

No. 9: Avocado Pickle Recipe (13.6 million views)

How to tell if an avocado is ripe: crack it open like an egg

Mash avocado and mix with cucumber, onion, parsley, garlic, etc.

Add white vinegar, salt, pepper, and mustard powder and mix to make Mediterranean-style guacamole

Add maple syrup and sriracha, spread on tortillas, and grill

Taste preferences: sweet, salty, sour, and spicy flavor combinations

8: Popular Pesto Recipe (21 million views)

Garlic, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts, lemon juice, basil, and olive oil

Controlling the amount of basil, Raza oil features: mild flavor, high smoke point, sustainability

Toss pasta in pesto, heat through, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes

Finish the cotton candy ice cream and introduce additional recipes

Spin in ice cream machine for 20-25 minutes, checking for desired texture

No. 7: Croquettes (26.5 million views): Chocolate chip cookie dough inside a croissant.

Make the dough by combining the melted butter, sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and chocolate chips.

Filling and baking croissants with cookie dough

Flavor Rating: A combination of chocolate croissant and chocolate chip cookie, 9 points

6th place: Emily Mariko's Salmon Dish (32 million views)

Crush garlic and mix with butter, lemon juice, and salt

Brush Salmon with Lemon, Dill, and Garlic Sauce, Grill, and Serve with Broccoli

Taste rating: 10, mentions using leftover salmon

No. 5: California Roll Flavored Cucumber Salad (42.8 million views), thinly sliced cucumber mixed with imitation crab meat, avocado, mayo, and more

No. 4: Nara Smith's Capri Sun (50 million views), blends a variety of fruits to make juice

3rd place: Breakfast sandwich during the pandemic (62 million views), using eggs, bread, cheese, tomato, avocado, etc.

Second place: Mac & Cheese (110 million views), grating different cheeses to make sauce

No. 1: Jack Choy's Barbecue Crispy Chicken (56.9 million views), chicken coated in multiple spices and deep-fried with crushed potato chips