Release date: November 24, 2009 | Series: Top Secret Recipes
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More than 4 million Top Secret Recipes books sold!
The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collection—the first book since his bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes, revealing the key ingredients in some of our favorite foods such as Starbucks’ Peppermint Brownie, Krispy Kreme’s original glazed donuts, Panera Bread’s cranberry walnut bagel and Wendy’s Garden Sensations Manadarin Chicken Salad. The book will feature 115 new recipes, including 40 previously unpublished recipes such as:
Forget takeout—with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen for a lot less!
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Todd Wilbur is the top-selling QVC cookbook author who’s been cloning recipes since the 1980’s. He’s the author of nine top secret recipes books. He’s toured extensively for his books, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, among others. He lives in Las Vegas with his family.
Product Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Plume; 1 Original edition (November 24, 2009)
Food hacker and host of CMT's "Top Secret Recipe," Todd Wilbur is the author of a series of unique cookbooks which reveal simple secret recipes for creating home versions of America's most popular brand-name foods. With over 5 million Top Secret Recipes books in print, Todd designs each recipe through careful research, trial-and-error, creative reverse-engineering, and obsession. Readers will not only be fascinated with the back stories and impressed with the accuracy of the formulas, but will also find that they can save money when recreating these signature dishes at home and will enjoy the ability to now customize their favorite foods to suit specific diets and health concerns.
Todd has appeared on numerous talk shows in the 24 years he has been cloning famous foods, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Oz, Today Show, Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee, Good Morning America, Fox News, Rachael Ray, Maury, and The Food Network. Season 1 of "Top Secret Recipe" debuted on CMT in October, 2011. When not taste-testing recipes on himself, his wife, his friends, and TV talk show hosts, Todd is busy teaching his 3-year-old daughter how to identify herbs in a sauce at their home in Las Vegas, NV.
Ready to save a trip to the fast food joint while saving a bit of money? Todd Wilbur writes another book chock-full of clone recipes that can be fixed using every day ingredients found in most kitchen cupboards.
Have a yen for a Sonic burger then you'll find the recipe in this book. Are you wanting a cool McDonald's Sweet Iced Tea? You'll find a recipe for this tasty beverage. Trying to lose a few pounds and would love to have a Weight Watcher's friendly muffin? The Weight Watcher's Banana Muffin clone recipe is in this book.
Here's a brief run down of some of the clone recipes included in Wilbur's newest cookbook:
* Arby's Horsey Sauce * Bisquick All-Purpose Baking Mix * Boston Market Garlic Dill New Potatoes * Burger King Zesty Onion Ring Sauce and Onion Rings recipe * Carl's Jr. Six Dollar Burger * Chick-Fil A Honey Roasted Barbecue Sauce * Chipolte Mexican Grill Barbacoa Burrito * Del Taco Fish Taco * Fritos Hot Bean Dip * Heinz Premium Chili Sauce * Hellman's Best Food Mayonnaise * Jack in the Box Pumpkin Pie Shake * Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sausage * KFC Cajun Wings * Kozy Shack Rice Pudding * Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Doughnuts * Lipton Brisk Iced Tea * Maid-Rite Loose Meat Sandwich * McDonald's Cinnamon Minis * Old Bay Seasoning * Popeye's Buttermilk Biscuits * Skyline Chili * The Soup Nazi's Crab Bisque * Starbucks Gingerbread Latte * Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bar * Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese * Subway Sweet Onion Sauce * Taco Bell Baja Sauce * Wendy's Garden Sensations Mandarin Chicken Salad
What I really like about cookbooks such as this as I can prepare the recipes at home which helps save money. I can also modify the recipes to reduce fat and lower calories therefore making them a bit healthier.
Well I'm off to prepare some yummy recipe clones!
UPDATE: We've been busy with Thanksgiving festivities, etc. but I did find time to make the Sonic Burger which my daughter loves to eat. We don't have a Sonic here so I was happy to give this recipe a try. She said, and we all agreed, the Sonic Burger was exactly how we remembered it. Very tasty too.
I have most, if not all, of Todd Wilbur's books and I have not had a bad recipe yet. This new book is great because it has all new recipes and recipes you will use regularly--like Lawry's and Old Bay seasonings. I can't wait to try the McDonald's Cinnamon Melts. If they are as good as Todd Wilbur's Cinnabon recipe, I know they will be excruciating delicious! I also can't wait to try the Starbuck's cranberry bar, lemon cake and pumpkin bread recipes.
This guy must have very particular taste buds because he hits the nail on the head in his cloning practices time and again. If you can get your grubs on two of his other books, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes and Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2, you will keep yourself busy making delicious recipes forever without incurring the cost of eating out. All are must have books!
I'm a big fan of Todd Wilbur's cookbooks. My disappointment here was with the number of recipes that are already in his other books. I shelled out $24 bucks earlier in the year for the QVC book because they were supposed to be "exclusives". Now several of these show up this book 6 months later. I also prefer the restuarant recipes to the other recipes but how many hamburger "recipes" do you need. There's like 4 or 5 in here just describing how to do the toppings. This was very disappointing to me. My advice would be to look at the index before purchasing.
