Todd Wilbur will stop at nothing to clone the taste of iconic American foods. If you saw season one of his CMT show, Top Secret Recipe (which aired between Oct. – Dec. 2011), you may have seen him plant hidden cameras in a Mrs. Field’s mall store to record cooking times, dress up as a Domino’s Pizza delivery man to get a special pizza pan, and feign an uncomfortable “affliction” to obtain the necessary liquid nitrogen from a dermatologist’s office to make banana split-flavored Dippin’ Dots.

Now Todd has assembled hundreds of the best recipes from his books into an easy-to-use (and much more portable!) eBook. Finally! Now I can have Todd recipes with me whenever I may need them. The book (which is now offered exclusively for Amazon Kindle, but will eventually be available for Apple iBooks and Barnes & Noble Nook) contains over 450 of Todd’s best copycat recipes from his 10 cookbooks that span almost 2o years. He also included 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.

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.

If you like any of Todd’s hardcopy books, then you MUST get this eBook. You don’t even need a Kindle to read it since you can get apps that will work with Kindle books so that you can read it on any computer in your browser or on tablets and many smartphones. And $9.99 is a great price for 450 recipes. Especially if you’ll use them as often as you’ll use these.

To get Super Duper Totally Authorized Top Secret Recipes eBook by Todd Wilbur: Click here.

So, you want to serve someething really special to your guests who’ve gathered around your home bar, but you just don’t know what to make. Well, you may want to check out this latest video demo from America’s restaurant food cloner Todd Wilbur.

In this new video Wilbur shows you how to make signature drinks from Margaritaville and P.F. Chang’s. The recipes are easy, but I advise you not to pound the drinks as fast as Wilbur does here. (Just watch till the end and you’ll see what I mean.)

These recipes come from Wilbur’s latest cookbook called Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 which is now in bookstores or can be purchased from Amazon.com at this link.

The McRib is back! And when it’s gone you’ll be able to make one of your own using the recipe created by the Clone Ranger himself. Todd Wilbur demonstrates the simple technique in his latest YouTube video.

Enjoy fellow cloners!

You can get the full recipe at Todd’s web site: http://TopSecretRecipes.com

Todd Wilbur was recently on Good Morning America with Sam Champion demonstrating this recipe from his new book, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3. Watch Sam do hits off the whipped cream canned!

This is just one of 150 new copycat recipes in Todd’s book. Other recipes include Bang Bang Shrimp from Bonefish Grill, Cheesecake Factory Banana Cream Cheesecake, Pizza Hut Pan Pizza, Max & Erma’s Tortilla Soup, Chili’s Quesadilla Explosion Salad, TGI Friday’s Crispy Green Bean Fries, Olive Garden Breadsticks, and P.F. Chang’s Kung Pao Chicken. 

Famous food cloner Todd Wilbur releases his tenth Top Secret Recipes book which is his 3rd collection of original clone recipes to duplicate signature dishes from casual restaurant chains. And we think it’s his best so far.

In this video he shares his recipe for one of Oprah’s favorite desserts from Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3. The exact measurements are laid out in the video so you can make the recipe right after you watch it.

It’s also much cheaper to make this at home than to buy it in the restaurant so you’ll save a little money too! Hope you like it:

   

There are 150 new recipes in Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3, and they are all excellent. The book is in all bookstores now and I found it at Amazon.com for under 11 bucks. Click here to check out the current price.

The latest news in recipe cloning is the release of Todd Wilbur’s 10th Top Secret Recipes cookbook, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3.

Once again Todd reverse-engineers the food we all love to eat from famous restaurant chains such as Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, Applebee’s, P.F. Chang’s, and TGI Friday’s.

This time, however, Todd also includes some amazing secret recipes from the higher-end fine-dining chains such as Spago, Fleming’s Steakhouse, Joe’s Stone Crab, Roy’s, and Mastro’s.

And, as with all his previous book, Todd includes detailed schematic-style blueprints, plus easy to follow instructions for each of the 150 spot-on new copycat recpes. Not only will you now be able to make the food you love at home in your own kitchen, but you’ll also save money. Todd claims that you’re saving an average of 60% when making your own versions of these dishes at home, rather than eating out.

If you enjoy cookbooks and cooking (especially copycat recipes!), this is a book that you must add to your collection. The variety of dishes presented here makes this book a valuable addition to any foodie’s shelf!

The book is in stores now, but I found it at Amazon for under $11. Here’s the link.

Today on his Facebook page America’s famous food cloner offered up a sneak peak of the schematics for four desserts that will appear in his next book, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3.

Author Todd Wilbur draws the blueprints by hand in black ink, then scans the art into Photoshop where he converts them to blue and adds a noise filter to simulate blueprints. Check ‘em out for yourself to see if there’s a recipe you’ve been waiting for:

 

Over 4.5 million Top Secret Recipes books have been sold since 1993! Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 is due out in September, and is available now for pre-order on Amazon.com.

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

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

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!

February 7, 2010 7:22 AM  

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!

February 7, 2010 7:24 AM  

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! :–)

February 7, 2010 7:36 AM  

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.

February 7, 2010 8:36 AM  

Beth F said…

I generally try not to bake to many sweets, but it’s fun to try to make restaurant favorites at home.

February 7, 2010 10:05 AM  

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.

February 7, 2010 10:39 AM  

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.

February 7, 2010 10:48 AM  

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

February 7, 2010 5:47 PM   

Jill said…

I love these books…I’m going to have to check out the latest!

February 7, 2010 6:32 PM  

Lisa said…

To paraphrase “Jerry MacGuire,” you had me at Panera Bread French Onion Soup!

February 7, 2010 9:32 PM  

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.

February 8, 2010 2:58 PM  

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.

February 8, 2010 3:59 PM  

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.

February 18, 2010 2:09 PM