Hundreds of Food Secrets in New Top Secret Recipes eBook
Super Duper Totally Authorized Top Secret Recipes eBook by Todd Wilbur
If you saw Todd Wilbur dress up as a Domino’s Pizza delivery man, sift through garbage in a KFC dumpster, and plant hidden cameras in a Mrs. Fields cookie store in his CMT show Top Secret Recipes, then you’ll know that he’s a man who will stop at nothing to get the information to help him perfectly clone the taste of a famous foods.
Now Todd has gathered together over 450 recipes from his 10 cookbooks that span over 2o years of reverse-engineering and trial-and-error “food hacking” into one massive eBook.
The book (which is now offered exclusively for Amazon Kindle, but will eventually be available for Apple iBooks and Barnes & Noble Nook) also includes several recipes that have yet to be published in a hard copy book, as well as the eight recipes that were created on his CMT TV show Top Secret Recipe, including KFC Original Recipe Chicken and Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls. (can I just say, “Yum!”)
The variety of recipes in this collection is impressive: from candy bars to snack cakes, from appetizers to desserts, from cocktails to smoothies, Todd’s book has just about any type of famous food here that you want to mimic.
Here is just a partial list of some of the clone recipes included in the new eBook:
Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits
Panda Express Orange-Flavored Chicken
Outback Bloomin’ Onion
Bonefish Grill Bang Bang Shrimp
Carrabba’s Spicy Sausage Lentil Soup
Wedy’s Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich
Marie Callender’s Famous Corn Bread
Auntie Anne’s Pretzels
Boston Market Meatloaf
Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Snapple Ice Tea
Kozy Shack Rice Pudding
Kahlua Coffe Liqueur
IHOP Pancakes
Ruby Tuesday Apple Salad
Panera Bread Spinach Artichoke Baked Egg Souffle
Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink
Hostess Twinkie
Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies
McDonald’s Shakes
Cheesecake Factory Original Cheesecake
Chili’s Molten Chocolate Cake
Snickers Candy Bar
McDonald’s McRib Sandwich
P.F. Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Olive Garden Spinach Artichoke Dip
Planet Hollywood Chicken Crunch
Popeye’s Red Beans & Rice
Starbucks Frappuccino
T.G.I. Friday’s Jack Daniels Grill Glaze
Taco Bell Burrito Supreme
White Castle Burgers
The list goes on and on and the quality of the clones these recipes produce is truly remarkable. But anyone who is familiar with Todd Wilbur’s work already knows that. And it’s great to be able to have the recipes instantly available on my iPhone with the Kindle app that syncs the book with my Kindle device.
Check out this book ASAP. you can’t beat the price…only $9.99. That’s pretty good for 450 recipes. Especially when you use them as often as you’ll use these.
To get Super Duper Totally Authorized Top Secret Recipes eBook by Todd Wilbur: Click here.
How to Clone Signature Cocktails
In his latest video The Clone Master General, Todd Wilbur, demonstrates how to clone a couple of signature cocktails from two restaurant chains, P.F. Chang’s and Margaritaville.
Follow along with Todd and he chugs the real thing and then takes you through making them each for yourself.
You can get the full recipes for these cocktails at Todd’s website at http://www.topsecretrecipes.com
Cook Clones Restaurant Favorites
Here’s an article on Todd Wilbur by Polly Campbell that ran in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
For years, Todd Wilbur has been figuring out how home cooks can clone commercially available food in their own kitchens.
“And I’m still the only one doing it,” he says.
No one else has made a career of reproducing things such as Reese’s peanut butter cups, Snapple iced tea, KFC coleslaw and McDonald’s McRib sandwich.
But he’s not the only person interested in it: All the recipes in his books are based on requests.
He began with commercially manufactured products. Then he moved into reproducing restaurant dishes. His 10th and latest book, “Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3” offers recipes from casual restaurant chains such as Cheesecake Factory, Chili’s, Outback and Max and Erma’s.
Wilbur has never been handed a restaurant recipe, but he hasn’t had to sneak around, either.
“If they ask, I always tell them what I’m doing,” he says of restaurant managers. He goes to the restaurant and orders a dish the way it’s normally served. He takes notes and asks as many questions as he can. Then he orders the dish to go, takes it home and works on analyzing it.
“I’ve developed tricks over the years,” he says.
He might look at a sauce under a microscope, put spice mixes through a sieve, squeeze biscuits or rolls in his hand to judge their fat content. In the end, he’s able to clone a recipe with ingredients bought at the grocery store.
“I spend a lot of time in grocery stores looking at ingredient lists to figure out what I can use to reproduce dishes.”
If he needs citric acid, for instance, he can use Kool-aid lemonade. To reproduce the mold Roy’s Hawaiian chocolate souffle is baked in, he used the can from chopped chiles.
A quick look at what goes into the clones confirms what you probably suspected about food from popular restaurants: they’re full of high-calorie ingredients. Lots of cheese, cream, “I reproduce them,” said Wilbur.
“Now you have the formula. You can tweak it, make it lower fat or whatever you want,” says Wilbur, who lives in restaurant chain-heavy Las Vegas.
How to Clone a McRib Sandwich
Hey, the McRib is back! But what’ll we do when it’s gone? Food cloner Todd Wilbur shows you how to make McDonald’ McRib Sandwich from scratch with common ingredients in his latest YouTube video demo:
Todd’s latest book, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3, has just hit bookstores! It makes a great gift for anyone who likes to cook, and it’s only around 11 bucks at Amazon.com (click here to go there).
Top Secret Recipes on Good Morning America
The Recipe Clone King brings his book of all new restaurant clones to the gang at Good Morning America.
Todd Wilbur shares his recipe for Outback Victoria Crowned Filet from his new book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 in this September appearance on GMA.
He also shows off his cloned Olive Garden Breadsticks and Serendipity 3 Frrrozen Hot Chocolate. Check out the video:
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 is now on sale wherever books are sold, and for around $11 at Amazon.com (click here). I also saw the book at Target stores for 20% off.
New Top Secret Recipes book is Out!
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 is Todd Wilbur’s 10th Top Secret Recipes cookbook, and it’s great. Wilbur has now sold over 5 million copies of his of his copycat recipe cookbooks and this may be his best one yet.Just check out some of the great reviews at Amazon.com:
“Spot on Perfect. This book gives me the way to make some of my favorite commercial dishes and have them come out as close to the real thing as is possible.” — Rocker Reed
“Todd’s best book. If you’ve enjoyed Todd Wilbur’s other books then getting this is a no-brainer.
I’ve tried 9 recipes so far:
Olive Garden Breadsticks
Olive Garden Dipping sauces for Breadsticks
Buca Di Beppo Garlic Bread
Chili’s Honey-Chipotle Chicken Crispers
Denny’s Cherry Limeade
Famous Dave’s Wilbur Beans
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse Chipotle Cheddar Mac & Cheese
On the Border Guacamole Live
Serendipty 3 Frrrozen Hot Chocolate
These are either really close or better so I feel like this is a pretty fair assessment considering I can’t possibly try every recipe anytime soon. If you like the original restaurant dish, chances are you’ll like his clone since they’re usually pretty spot on. I’ll update this if I try more recipes and they’re not good clones, but given his track record I’m sure they’ll be accurate.
There are about 150 recipes in the book. The complete list is available on his website so no surprises here.” — Bender Rodriguez
“Yummy! I bought this book for the Margaritaville Jerk Salmon recipe. I made it today and it was so good! And 1/3 of the cost of going to restaurant! Thank you Todd Wilbur for making these excellent books!” — S. Sharp
“Another hit from Wilbur. I own 3 other food books by Todd Wilbur and they are all great if you love to cook, and want to cook items that taste like the ones you go-out to get, for WAY less money. This book continues the journey of how to imitate the restaurant dishes you love, at home.” — Vocal Lover
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 is now on sale at Amazon for $10.88 (link is here). With the cooking season upon us, this book is a must-have. And at that price you really can’t go wrong.
All fans of Copykatrecipe.com should check this one out right away!
Recreating Famous Food with Rachael Ray
Famous food cloner Todd Wilbur hangs with Rachael Ray in her kitchen to make his top secret recipes for Stouffer’s Macaroni & Cheese and Burger King Onion Rings. At the end of the segment Rach brings up an audience member to do a taste test.
Get more recipes like these at Todd’s super cool website: TopSecretRecipes.com
Drinkin’ and Clonin’ in San Fran
Comedian Mark Pitta takes Todd Wilbur around San Francisco to clone drinks from Starbucks, Cheesecake Factory and The Hard Rock Cafe in this video:
You can get Todd’s drink book filled with over 200 recipes (including the clone for Coca-Cola!) here at Amazon.com
Book Review: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked
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Summary: 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 Mandarin Chicken Salad. The book will feature 115 new recipes, including 40 previously unpublished recipes such as:
•Panera Bread French Onion Soup
•Burger King Onion Rings
•Chick-Fil-A Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce
•McDonald’s Cinnamon Melts
•Stouffer’s Macaroni & Cheese
•Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette
•Popeye’s Buttermilk Biscuits.
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! — Plume
With over 4 million copies of Todd Wilbur’s Top Secret Recipes Cookbooks sold, I am obviously not alone in my curiosity about these books. I actually bought two of these cookbooks and gave them to my husband as gifts a few years ago. The latest Top Secret Recipe collection is TOP SECRET RECIPES UNLOCKED: ALL NEW HOME CLONES OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE BRAND-NAME FOODS. I was very excited about checking out this one because I knew it featured some Starbucks’ recipes — namely their Lemon Loaf.
I enjoyed looking through this cookbook and there were a few recipes that I definitely marked to try. While I usually try to make healthy recipes, this cookbook probably isn’t the healthiest; but every once in awhile you have to make an exception! The first recipe I made was the Orange Julius Banana Julius — which actually was a fairly healthy one. I haven’t had the real deal for a long time, but I will say that this version was very good. My fussy-nut daughter even drank one, and that’s really saying something.
The next recipe I tried was the Stouffer’s Macaroni and Cheese. I love their frozen macaroni and cheese plus it’s so convenient, so I couldn’t wait to try this one. I was surprised how easy the recipe was! There were only a six ingredients needed and ones I usually have on hand. I like that this recipe didn’t make a lot and that I can just freeze it and pull it out when I need it. It was really good and did taste a lot like Stouffer’s!
Finally, I made the Starbucks’ Lemon Loaf. It wasn’t hard and it did taste good (a lot like Starbucks’), but I definitely couldn’t have served it to company — my husband wouldn’t even take it into work. (Needless to say — no photo of this one!) The center of the loaf fell while it was cooking so it was really ugly! It also crumbled a teensy bit when I cut it, but I think I might have done something wrong. I would be willing to try the recipe again to see if I had better luck!
The only thing that disappointed me about this cookbook was how many condiment-type recipes are included. Our family doesn’t eat condiments so I kind of just skipped through those pages, but others might like them. In addition, most of the condiments are free at restaurants — right?; so I can’t see actually going to the effort to make them. But that’s just me!
When I sat down to write this review, I decided to look at the Top Secret Recipes website. Oh my! There are a lot of free clone recipes on this site. While I couldn’t find the three recipes that I tried, there were some recipes from TOP SECRET RECIPES UNLOCKED. The closest I could find to anything that I made was the recipe for an Orange Julius Orange Julius. There are also a few free Starbucks’ recipes, but sadly not the Lemon Loaf. While you are there, you can sign up for new weekly recipe reminders.
If you enjoy “knock-off” style cookbooks, then you might want to check out TOP SECRET RECIPES UNLOCKED. Thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy of this cookbook.
Posted by Julie P. at 1:39 AM
Labels: Cookbook, Nonfiction, Review, Weekend Cooking
13 comments:
Mary said…
Sounds like an interesting cookbook. Sorry the lemon loaf didn’t “hold up” but at least it tasted good. My favorite lemon bread recipe is in The Barefoot Contessa’s cookbook. LOVE IT. Yes, it’s that good!
Sandy Nawrot said…
Since I am all healthy and everything now, after Game On, that would be my first concern. I have started looking up calories of things on the menus of restaurants, and it is positively HORRIFYING. My daughter had a salad last night at The Elephant Bar that was over 1,000 calories without the dressing! So you figure alot of these recipes would not be something you would eat on a regular basis. I’m going to check out the website though!
rhapsodyinbooks said…
I also love the lemon loaf at Starbucks! Too bad it didn’t look very pretty when you made it – my cakes rarely do, but as you say, it’s okay as long as it’s not for company! :–)
bermudaonion said…
I really want to try that Starbucks lemon pound cake recipe. As long as it tastes good, I wouldn’t care if it fell in the middle.
Beth F said…
I generally try not to bake to many sweets, but it’s fun to try to make restaurant favorites at home.
S. Krishna said…
This sounds interesting, though I think I’d prefer to just go the finished product from the store! I’ve been curious about this cookbook though, so thanks for the review.
Heather said…
I’m sure I heard of the earlier book by this author. Nice to read your comments about the book and the recipes your tried. Will be checking their website. Thanks.
Cindy said…
Julie here in Montreal they have this take out place (which is the shape of a huge orange) called the Orange juliep and they make the best Orange Julius drinks ever.
Okay off to find the recipe because I am craving it LOL
Great review
Jill said…
I love these books…I’m going to have to check out the latest!
Lisa said…
To paraphrase “Jerry MacGuire,” you had me at Panera Bread French Onion Soup!
Bonnie said…
I love the Lemon Pound cake at Starbucks and would love to try the recipe. Mary is right, the Barefoot Contessa’s recipe for lemon bread is to die for. She gave me the recipe and it has become a family favorite and a book club favorite. I’d like to give this cookbook a try as there are several recipes that sound good.
Dawn @ sheIsTooFondOfBooks said…
Funny/weird fact: Howard Johnson’s frozen mac & cheese was always my favorite when I was a kid; I wonder if they still sell it?!
That lemon cake sounds delish, even if it wasn’t too nice to look at.
Mo’s Mom said…
Well, you don’t have to convince me! I’ve been following this guy for years! I have all 9 of the cookbooks plus a couple special ones I bought from him on QVC. These are my Go To Books for almost everything.