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It’s here! All the dishes you crave from your favorite restaurants, ready to make in your own kitchen. In our brand new cookbook, Most Requested Copycat Dishes, we gathered 101 of our most beloved copycat recipes for you to enjoy cooking at home.
We’ve taken all the guess work out of the age old question, “how do they make it like that!?” and brought our tips and tricks to you. We’ve tested hundreds of recipes over the years and have come up with the very best techniques to replicate favorite restaurant recipes at home. We asked all the questions, observed how things were made, compared restaurant dishes with our copycats and got lots of feedback from our friends and family, who (mostly) willingly taste-tested everything we made. The result is this beautiful, colorful book of treasured recipes that you can make again and again.
What’s Inside
- 101 homemade versions of your very favorite restaurant recipes. These recipes have been tested time and again against the originals. They include everything from drinks and shakes, to those delicious sauces you think you can only find at certain fast-food spots, to main dishes and desserts.
- Easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Each recipe is super easy to follow with clear prep and cook times, along with a clear list of ingredients and simple steps for putting the recipe together. No complicated phrases or ingredients to decipher. It’s all very user-friendly so you get the best experience possible in your kitchen!
- Gorgeous full-page photographs. Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful picture of the delicious recipes, guaranteed to make your mouth water! Some of the more complicated recipes feature easy step-by-step photos and instructions to help you along.
- Tips on creating your own copycat recipes. It can take a lot of trial and error to replicate that tableside guacamole to perfection. Luckily we learned many tricks over the course of writing this book. Inside you’ll learn our trips on how to be observant at a restaurant, which questions to ask the server or chefs, ingredients to start out with and how to taste test as you go. Before you know it, you’ll be testing your own herbs and spices, doing side-by-side comparisons and coming up with your own copycat recipes with our easy guide.
- Substitutions, Tips and Tools. For each recipe, you’ll find suggestions of various ingredients that can be swapped out, tips for optimal storage, and the best kitchen tools to use to make the recipe.
- Easy to navigate restaurant index. All of our resources are easily laid out for you to follow. So you can look up a recipe just by searching your favorite restaurant.
About the Book
From fast-food classics to gourmet restaurant delights, Most Requested Copycat Dishes brings the restaurant experience directly to your home kitchen. From crave-worthy appetizers like Disneyland’s Jalapeno Cheese-Filled Pretzels and P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wraps to mouthwatering main courses like Mizithra Pasta from The Old Spaghetti Factory and Gino’s East Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza. Then finish off your meal with decadent desserts like Marie Callender’s Chocolate Satin Pie or Nothing Bundt Cakes’ White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake.
This cookbook presents 101 tested and perfected recipes that mirror their famous cousins. With insider tips along with step-by-step photo instructions for some of the trickier recipes, Most Requested Copycat Dishes can elevate your home dining experience whether you’re a seasoned chef or a kitchen enthusiast.
In the Media
- “Want to make your favorite restaurant meal at home? This cookbook can help!” by Gail Ciampa on The Providence Journal
- Echo and Erica on Good Things Utah making Carnival Cruise Melting Cake
- Echo on Studio 5 KSL making Butterbeer and Pumpkin Spice Steamers
