I tried pumpkin-pie recipes from 3 celebrity chefs. The best was easy to make — and beat the one from a baking legend.

In the end, there's one pumpkin pie I loved more than the others.

Paige Bennett I tried making pumpkin pies using recipes from Bobby Flay, Dominique Ansel, and Alton Brown.

My favorite recipe was Flay's because it was easy to follow, and the whipped cream was delicious.

Ansel's recipe was a disaster for me to make, and the final pie tasted quite bland.

When it comes to fall comfort foods, nothing takes the cake quite like a slice of homemade pumpkin pie .

Celebrity chefs certainly feel the same way, which is why so many have their own pumpkin-pie recipes .

To find out which are worth trying this fall, I tested pumpkin-pie recipes from culinary legends Bobby Flay, Dominique Ansel, and Alton Brown.

Here's how the pies turned out — and which recipe I'll totally be coming back to.

Flay's signature pumpkin-pie recipe has many steps, but simple ingredients The ingredients for Bobby Flay's pumpkin pie weren't overly complicated.

Paige Bennett Though he's known as a grill master, Flay can throw down when it comes to pies.

His recipe on the Food Network website has several steps, but it seemed easy to organize and measure all the ingredients in advance.

The crust and filling ingredients seemed pretty standard: graham-cracker crumbs, butter, sugar, ground cinnamon, eggs, dark-brown sugar, granulated sugar, pumpkin purée, heavy cream, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cloves, vanilla bean, and salt The recipe also called for homemade bourbon-maple whipped cream, made with cold heavy cream, grade-B maple syrup , and bourbon.

It sounded tasty.

To make it, I needed grade-B maple syrup — but I learned that label no longer exists.