Top Secret Recipes--Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits, & Shakes: Creating Cool Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Drinks: A Cookbook - Softcover

"The mission: Decode the secret recipes for America's favorite junk foods. Equipment: Standard kitchen appliances. Goal: Leak the results to a ravenous public."--USA Today

Praise for Todd Wilbur #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series

"[Wilbur's] problem isn't that the recipes he's devised aren't good enough, it's that they're too good."--Entertainment Weekly

"There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore you're unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes."--Boston Herald

"This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings."--Juli Huss, author of The Faux Gourmet

"The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money."--Arizona Daily Star

"[Wilbur's] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be."--Star Tribune (Minneapolis--St. Paul)

"The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Friday's restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth."--Pocono Record

"Many of [Wilbur's] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside."--Mademoiselle

The creator of the Top Secret Recipes series introduces more than two hundred recipes for some of America's most popular brand-name drinks, providing step-by-step instructions on how to create a homemade version of Starbuck's Frappuccino, the Dairy Queen Blizzard, Sunny Delight, and other specialty drinks from T.G.I. Friday's, McDonald's, Hard Rock Cafe, and other eateries. Original.