As recently seen on QVC, America’s #1 food hacker is back with a new Top Secret Recipes book now with color photos for every important step of each recipe to help navigate your way through the kitchen cloning process.
Three years in the making, TOP SECRET RECIPES STEP-BY-STEP (on-sale November 17th, 2015) takes readers and amateur cooks behind the scenes of big-named chain restaurants such as Olive Garden, Applebee’s, IHOP and even Starbucks, revealing the key ingredients and trade secrets that keep diners coming back for more. The book features 125 recipes including 75 all new hacks and 50 classic recipes which Todd improved to come even closer to the restaurant’s original formula. With over 1,100 photos, TOP SECRET RECIPES contains homemade versions of popular menu items and brand-named foods including:
* The Cheesecake Factory© Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake
* Chick-Fil-A© Chicken Sandwich
* Chipotle Mexican Grill© Adobo-Marinated Grilled Chicken and Steak
* Cinnabon© Cinnamon Rolls
* Hostess© Twinkie
* IKEA® Swedish Meatballs
* KFC© Original Fried Chicken
* McDonald’s© Big Mac
* Mrs. Fields© Chocolate Chip Cookies
* Girl Scout© Samoas
* TGI Fridays© Jack Daniel’s Sauce
* Wendy’s® Chili
* Outback Steakhouse© Honey Wheat Bushman Bread
* McDonald’s© Baked Apple Pie
* Dippin’ Dots® Banana Split Ice Cream
* Chili’s® Chipotle Chicken Flatbread
* The Melting Pot®Cheddar Cheese Fondue
* Red Lobster® Cheddar Bay Biscuits
…and over 100 more delicious dishes, from snacks and appetizers to entrees and desserts!
To create these recipes, Todd had unprecedented access to company headquarters, test kitchen, labs, corporate chefs — and even a food scientist — to craft the closest clones of these iconic brand-name products ever published. Forget take-out, with TOP SECRET RECIPES STEP-BY-STEP, Todd Wilbur shows how even the most novice cook can recreate famous fast food favorites with everyday ingredients.
My husband and I are both foodies and eat out at least once per week. On top of that…we eat very little processed foods at home. We love to cook and bake from scratch, and enjoy spending time with one another in the kitchen.
Top Secret Recipes Step-By-Step is a fantastic cookbook! Every recipe includes step-by-step preparation photos and a photo of the finished product. All ingredients and techniques used are laid out nicely and everything is in an easy-to-read format. I love that the author gives you the prep time and grades each recipe from easy to difficult.
One of our favorite things at Red Lobster is their Cheddar Bay Biscuits and there is a recipe in the book for that! After reading the recipe…I now realize how simple they are to make at home and will definitely be making them during the holidays. If you’ve ever dined at the Pancake House and loved their Dutch Baby Pancakes well guess what? The recipe is in this book and they are super easy to make!
From cover-to-cover this cookbook is loaded with all of your favorite recipes from various restaurants, coffee shops and cafes. I am super stoked that as a foodie I finally have one of Todd Wilbur’s cookbooks in my collection!
The holidays are here and now is the time to grab a copy of Top Secret Recipes Step-by-Step: Secret Formulas with Photos for Duplicating Your Favorite Famous Foods at Home
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I would like to try the Chipotle Mexican Grill© Adobo-Marinated Grilled Chicken and Steak. I love Chipotle and it would be fun to try and mimic their flavor. I also love that there are KFC recipes!
I want to make the chick fila sandwich. Chick fila is literally my fav fast food restaurant and I would love to make it at home!!
the Chipotle Mexican Grill© Adobo-Marinated Grilled Chicken and Steak sounds good. always like trying out recipes.
I really want to make Red Lobster® Cheddar Bay Biscuits! We love them & my family devours them! So delicious!
I would like to make all of these wonderful recipes. The first one I would like to make is the Cinnabon Cinnamon rolls.
I can’t wait to make Wendy’s Chilli and the Chik fil a chicken sandwich! Thankfully I have had dinner, becase my mouth is watering from reading this.
I’d like to make the The Cheesecake Factory Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake. The Cheesecake Factory has the best cheesecake!
I love mexican food so I would try the Chipotle Mexican Grill Adobo-Marinated Grilled Chicken and Steak recipe. They all sound pretty good and I would also like to try the Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls recipe as well.
I would like to make The Cheesecake Factory Fresh Strawberry cheesecake.
I would love to be able to make homemade KFC Fried Chicken.
I’d love to learn how to make Hostess Twinkies. I love little cakes with filling.
My kids would have fun helping too..
You can’t go wrong with cookies…both the Mrs. Fields and the Girl Scouts. Plus, we love Red Lobster’s biscuits.
I love the Chili’s® Chipotle Chicken Flatbread recipe.
Every once in a while, my spouse gets a hankering for KFC Original Fried Chicken and nothing else will do! And just last week, I acquired a deep fryer, so I’d love to try the recipe to duplicate his favorite take-out chicken at home.
I think my husband and I would enjoy the Chili’s Chipotle Chicken Flatbread
I would love to learn how to make the Chipotle Mexican Grill Adobo-Marinated Grilled Chicken and Steak. Then I wouldn’t have to spend so much money eating out all the time.
I want to learn how to make Chili’s® Chipotle Chicken Flatbread. It is so good. My family loves it but we cannot always go to the restaurant as often as we want to. Thank you for this giveaway.
I would love to make the Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies. I can almost taste them now. I know the kids would like to give them a try. 🙂
I would start with the TGI Fridays Jack Daniel’s Sauce. I could eat that stuff on dirt and it would probably still taste great 🙂 Then from there I would work my way through most of that list.
My goodness looks like some super yummy recipes listed above. I would really love to try my hand at the Red Lobster® Cheddar Bay Biscuits recipe. I love those so much when we go to the restaurant and I would really love to be able to make those at home. I would love to win this one thank you so very much for the chance and have a nice day.
So many recipes sound great!! I LOVE Chic-Fil-A, so the chicken sandwich sounds great. I think the recipe for Wendy’s chili would be first on my list to try. Especially on a rainy day like today.
I want to make Mrs Fields chocolate chip cookies!
I want to know how to make the Wendy’s Chili and the Big Mac from McDonalds. This would be great and fun.
I would want to learn to make these from the cookbook; * Red Lobster® Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
I think the cinnabon cinnamon rolls recipe for a weekend morning would hit the spot for me. They are so good and go perfect with coffee.
Would love to have this book