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Momofuku Milk Bar [Hardcover]

Christina Tosi , David Chang
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Book Description

October 25, 2011
The highly anticipated complement to the New York Times bestselling Momofuku cookbook, Momofuku Milk Bar reveals the recipes for the innovative, addictive cookies, pies, cakes, ice creams, and more from the wildly popular bakery.

A runaway success, the Momofuku cookbook suffered from just one criticism among reviewers and fans: where were Christina Tosi’s fantastic desserts? The compost cookie, a chunky chocolate-chip cookie studded with crunchy salty pretzels and coffee grounds; the crack pie, a sugary-buttery confection as craveable as the name implies; the cereal milk ice cream, made from everyone’s favorite part of a nutritious breakfast—the milk at the bottom of a bowl of cereal; the easy layer cakes that forgo fancy frosting in favor of unfinished edges that hint at the yumminess inside.

Momofuku Milk Bar
finally shares the recipes for these now-legendary riffs on childhood flavors and down-home classics—all essentially derived from ten mother recipes—along with the compelling narrative of the unlikely beginnings of this quirky bakery’s success. It all started one day when Momofuku founder David Chang asked Christina to make a dessert for dinner that night. Just like that, the pastry program at Momofuku began, and Christina’s playful desserts helped the restaurants earn praise from the New York Times and the Michelin Guide and led to the opening of Milk Bar, which now draws fans from around the country and the world.

With all the recipes for the bakery’s most beloved desserts—along with ones for savory baked goods that take a page from Chang’s Asian-flavored cuisine, such as Kimchi Croissants with Blue Cheese—and 100 color photographs, Momofuku Milk Bar makes baking irresistible off-beat treats at home both foolproof and fun.

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Featured Recipe: Corn Cookies

Momofuku Milk Bar Corn CookiesYield 13 to 15 cookies

  • 16 tablespoons or 2 sticks (225 g) butter, at room temperature
  • 1-1/2 cups (300 g) sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1-1⁄3 cups (225 g) flour
  • 1/4 cup (45 g) corn flour
  • 2/3 cup (65 g) freeze-dried corn powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon (3 g) baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon (1.5 g) baking soda
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons (6 g) kosher salt
  1. Combine the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and cream together on medium-high for 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add the egg, and beat for 7 to 8 minutes.
  2. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour, corn flour, corn powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix just until the dough comes together, no longer than 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  3. Using a 2 3/4-ounce ice cream scoop (or a 1⁄3-cup measure), portion out the dough onto a parchment-lined sheet pan. Pat the tops of the cookie dough domes flat. Wrap the sheet pan tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or up to 1 week. Do not bake your cookies from room temperature--they will not bake properly.
  4. Heat the oven to 350°F.
  5. Arrange the chilled dough a minimum of 4 inches apart on parchment- or Silpat-lined sheet pans. Bake for 18 minutes. The cookies will puff, crackle, and spread. After 18 minutes, they should be faintly browned on the edges yet still bright yellow in the center; give them an extra minute if not.
  6. Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pans before transferring to a plate or to an airtight container for storage. At room temp, the cookies will keep fresh for 5 days; in the freezer, they will keep for 1 month.

Review

"This cookbook highlights all of the desserts that make Momofuku Milk Bar a successful New York City foodie destination…It covers baking wunderkind Christina Tosi's meteoric rise, with her trademark recipes for low-brow, high-brow sweet treats.”
- USA Today

“Chocolate-chocolate cookies, compost cookies, blueberries and cream cookies, banana cream pie, brownie pie, hot fudge sauce, chocolate cake. I can't stop baking from Momofuku Milk Bar…A crowd pleaser, obviously.”
- Los Angeles Times

"Whimsical desserts-from Compost Cookie to Crack Pie - by Manhattan pastry pro Christina Tosi create a 256-page Wonka World."
- Details Magazine

“It took just one recipe to fall in love with this book” 
- Philadelphia Citypaper

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter (October 25, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780307720498
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307720498
  • ASIN: 0307720497
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.9 x 10.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I look forward to trying more of the recipes. Alexandra  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
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61 of 63 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Long awaited and worth the wait! November 9, 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I preordered this cookbook as soon as I could. I have been dying to get it. I have never been to NYC, so I have never tried the baked goods. I have made all the recipes I could find online. I loved the crack pie, and chocolate malted milk cake, but the blueberry and cream cookies really haunted me.

I could not wait to try the corn cookies especially. It took me a week or so to get in the Just Corn that I needed. In the meantime, I started with the cornflake marshmallow cookies. The first six I baked off were overbaked. I was expecting them to take about 18 minutes, like the book said, but I ended up pulling them at 15. The next batch got removed at 12 minutes. I think I could have gone 11. I know they were the right size because I had the right quantity. My one heads up about this book is that the baking times for the cookies seems really off to me. Luckily I bake a lot, so I know what a cookie should look like when it is done. The middle should look completely unbaked while the edges are lightly browned. They continue to bake quite a bit after they come out. The center will be fully baked by the time they cool. I was able to adjust quickly. For cookies this size I think the baking time should be about 11-12 minutes.

I have made: chocolate marshmallow cookies, corn cookies, confetti cookies, candy bar pie, crack pies (one with pecans!), and the compost cookies so far. Every one has had a much deeper depth of flavor than ordinary baked goods. I believe she is right when she says that milk powder is the msg of the baking world. It does seem to make everything taste better.

The crack pie recipe in the book is different and far superior to previously published versions. This pie is truly incredible, and my family prefers the pecan variation.
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161 of 182 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun read but too sweet October 25, 2011
Format:Hardcover
Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook is your chance to jump back to your youth when you were raised on Cap'n Crunch and Corn Flakes. In a follow-up to David Chang's best-selling Momofuku Cookbook, his pastry chef, Christina Tosi, presents her most popular recipes including the famed Compost Cookies and Crack Pie. But beware of her overly sweet recipes if you prefer your desserts a bit more subtle and understated.

Momofuku Milk Bar's fame, although relatively new, is well deserved. The story is legendary - David Chang was serving Hershey Kisses as dessert for his restaurants, and on leave from wd-50, Christina Tosi arrived to assist in dealing with the New York restaurant inspectors. A quick consult turned into a full-time job based on junk food turned nostalgia pastry. Many terms have been used to describe her creations including the New York Times' "a time capsule of arrested adolescence, an homage to American processed food," but I prefer to think of them as "gussied up stuff my mom used to make."

Momofuku Milk Bar Cookbook comes in at 256 pages with over 100 photographs. Pictures fill most pages and are sure to get your mouth watering although her desserts are not about fancy and frilly, and so they aren't necessarily the most photogenic. The book also contains sections on her preferred ingredients, equipment and techniques. What is most exciting about this book is that Tosi gives us much of her menu, and explains how the menu evolved in those early years.

The evolution of her menu makes sense. Chefs don't have much time so they need to create a handful of knock-out base recipes that can be spun into a number of other recipes. And for this reason alone, Milk Bar is a good read for any aspiring chef or prolific bake sale maven.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars From the trenches of baking love February 10, 2012
Format:Hardcover
"I will bake anything from this cookbook that you ask me to," I have proclaimed more than once, to more than one person, while singing the praises of this book. Last weekend, I went through three pounds of butter because I could not stop myself from trying more recipes.

I thought that I liked baking. I had no idea how far from "like" I was. Compared to what I do now, I was just going through the motions.

I have had this book for less than two months, but already it has changed my approach to and my enjoyment of baking. It will be a longstanding staple in my kitchen/life.

I received this book as a gift. I'd never heard of it. At first glance, the photos are beautiful, but there is a lot of reading, as far as cookbooks go. And, upon further inspection, the recipes looked complicated and intimidating. They are recipes within recipes. But, having heard of Momofuku, the Milk Bar is their bakery, I was intrigued.

The first thing I did, which is out of character for me and a cookbook, is read it from cover to cover. I was in love with the narrative. And reading through it piqued my interest, revved up my courage and helped me to understand the recipes and the process of baking. I was inspired!

There are some unusual ingredients in the book. The author is a big proponent of Amazon for sourcing things like glucose and freeze-dried corn, if you can't find them locally. Instead of making an investment in a yet-to-be-proven-in-my-kitchen-cookbook, I chose a recipe that needed nothing particularly special: Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies. I was not particularly sold on that combination of ingredients, but went ahead with it, anyway. It was from that point on that I was a shameless devotee.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product; Excellent price.
Excellent Product; Excellent price. Bought the book for my wife & she cannot seem to put it down. I scored with this Mother's Day gift. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Michael Mark Cipriotti
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Almost all the recopies have pictures and the carrot cake I made from this book was the best carrot cake I ever had. Read more
Published 8 days ago by wolf
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun!
What a fun book! I love how the pastry chef approaches her desserts. I want to make every single one of them.
Published 8 days ago by Gabi Perez
3.0 out of 5 stars Love the ideas, not the recipes
I really was excited about buying this book. As a professional baker, I had heard so much about her wonderful pastries I couldn't wait to recreate them at home. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Erin T.
3.0 out of 5 stars too many recipes within recipes
That is my biggest criticism for this book... that almost all the recipes seemed to rely on other recipes found within the book, which I get, totally makes sense for their... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Raychel
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Cookbook
The recipes for a finished product in this book are long and intense, however each individual recipe is quite easy. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Laurie Gonsowski
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome recipes
i am so glad i bought this cookbook.i have spent many an reading the recipes and making them. very well written and very readable. Read more
Published 17 days ago by lana smith
5.0 out of 5 stars A challenging book!
I bought this book specifically for the Birthday Cake recipe and instructions. My cake was a hit -- everyone enjoyed it, and because of the very detailed instructions, it came out... Read more
Published 24 days ago by BarbF
2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed reviews
While the book is a lovely escape into the world of Tosi and her team at Milk Bar, the actual recipes feel like an afterthought. Read more
Published 27 days ago by BB
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love it!
Despite the fact that the recipes have too many steps I love this book. It has lots of tips and interesting information. I find it inspiring.
Published 1 month ago by Solange
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What is the substitute for freeze dry corn powder?
I also had trouble finding freeze dried corn (just made Crack pie) and ended up using plain potato flakes (I'm sorry Christina but I needed my crack!!!) I hope this works for you!
Nov 11, 2011 by Julia Carey |  See all 7 posts
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The book is fun to flip through but I doubt I'll use a lot of the recipes for two reasons. 1) There is a lot of stop and go involved. These recipes are not what I'll reach for when I feel like tackling a new recipe in an evening. 2) A large portion of the recipes require gelatin (continuing... Read more
Oct 24, 2011 by A. de Shazo |  See all 2 posts
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