Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods: A Cookbook

by Todd Wilbur

Overview

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! 

Have you ever wanted to make a McDonald’s® Big Mac®? What about a Hostess® Twinkie®? This irresistible collection of cloned recipes is the product of years of obsessive research by self-confessed junk-food addict Todd Wilbur—and now you can make them, too!

Big food manufacturers guard their recipes like the gold in Fort Knox, but Wilbur’s dogged pursuit of taste-alike versions of his—and our—all-time favorites has paid off in this unique cookbook of 50 scrumptious treats. 

Whether you’re a kid or just a kid at heart, you’ll have a great time using these step-by-step recipes to make the incredible clones of a Burger King® Whopper®, KFC® Original Recipe® Fried Chicken, a Yoo Hoo® Chocolate Drink, and so many other famous guilty pleasure foods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780452269958
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/1993
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

For more than 25 years, Todd Wilbur has been reverse-engineering America's most iconic foods for his series of 11 Top Secret Recipes cookbooks. With over 5 million books in print, the self-proclaimed "food hacker" has appeared in over 100 media outlets including The New York Times, People Magazine, Newsweek, The Daily News, Entertainment Weekly, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Food Network.  His website www.TopSecretRecipes.com is the #1 copycat recipes website with 1 million visitors every month. He lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.

Table of Contents

Top Secret RecipesA Little Foreword

Introduction

Convenience Food: An American Love Affair

Aunt Jemima's® Maple Syrup
Ben and Jerry's® Heath® Bar Ice Cream
Borden® Cracker Jack®
Brown & Haley® Almond Roca¨
Burger King® Whopper®
Carl's Jr.® Famous Star®
Chick-Fil-A® Chicken Sandwich
Hardee's® French Fries
Hardee's® 1/4 Pound Hamburger
Hostess® Twinkie®
In-N-Out® Double-Double®
Jack-In-The-Box® Jumbo Jack®
Jack-In-The-Box® Taco
Kahlua® Coffee Liquer
Keeber® Soft Batch® Chocolate Chip Cookies
KFC® Buttermilk Biscuits
KFC® Cole Slaw
KFC® Original Recipe® Fried Chicken
Long John Silver's® Batter-Dipped Fish
M&M/Mars® Caramel Twix® Bars
M&M/Mars® Snickers® Bars
McDonalds® Big Mac®
McDonalds® Egg McMuffin®
McDonalds® McD.L.T®
Mrs. Fields® Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mrs. Fields® Peanut Butter Dream Bars
Orange Julius®
Pancakes from International House of Pancakes®
Peter Paul® Mounds® and Almond Joy®
Pogen's® Gingersnaps
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups®
Sara Lee® Original Cream Cheesecake
See's® Butterscotch Lollipop
Taco Bell® Enchirito
Tastykake® Butterscotch Krimpets®
Tastykake® Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes®
Twin Dragon® Almond Cookies
Wendy's® Chili
Wendy's® Frosty®

Trademarks

Bibliiography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Todd Wilbur's #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series

“[Wilbur’s] problem isn't that the recipes he’s devised aren’t good enough, it’s that they’re too good.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes.”—Boston Herald
 
“This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings.”—Juli Huss, author of The Faux Gourmet
 
“The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money.”—Arizona Daily Star
 
“[Wilbur’s] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis—St. Paul)
 
“The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Fridays restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth.”—Pocono Record
  
“Many of [Wilbur’s] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside.”—Mademoiselle

From the Publisher

Sort of the junk-food version of Helen Witty and Elizabeth S. Colchie's Better Than Store-Bought ( LJ 5/15/79), this offers recipes for Hostess Twinkies, Cracker Jacks, Wendy's Chili, McDonald's Big Mac, and other such favorites. These are not, however, top-secret formulas cadged from the companies but Wilbur's own recipes, some more successful than others, along with architectural cross sections of such constructions as Egg McMuffins. A novelty item, but some cooks are sure to find it fun. Literary Guild selection.

Library Journal