#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold!  Have you ever wanted to make a McDonald’s® Big Mac®? What about a Hostess® Twinkie®? This irresistible collection of cloned recipes is the product of years of obsessive research by self-confessed junk-food addict Todd Wilbur—and now you can make them, too! Big food manufacturers guard their recipes like the gold in Fort Knox, but Wilbur’s dogged pursuit of taste-alike versions of his—and our—all-time favorites has paid off in this unique cookbook of 50 scrumptious treats.  Whether you’re a kid or just a kid at heart, you’ll have a great time using these step-by-step recipes to make the incredible clones of a Burger King® Whopper®, KFC® Original Recipe® Fried Chicken, a Yoo Hoo® Chocolate Drink, and so many other famous guilty pleasure foods. Todd Wilbur has baked, boiled, digested, fried, and tested--all in the name of duplicating some of America's favorite convenience foods. He now shares 41 of these naughty but nice gastronomical delights in Top Secret Recipes . If you've ever craved a McDonald's Big Mac at 3:00 A.M. on a Sunday morning, then Wilbur has just the recipe for satisfying your junk-food desires. Even better, no cordon-bleu expertise is needed for this particular clone--just simple frying and chopping skills! Simplicity is the key to all of Wilbur's replicated recipes--all are composed of rudimentary ingredients available at any store, needing only minimal preparation. These recipes are fun and fast--two dozen Snickers Bars in less than 10 minutes (plus cooling time), a delicious Orange Julius in less than 60 seconds (that's considerably quicker than waiting in line for the real thing)! These culinary creations are organized in alphabetical order by manufacturer or restaurant, and illustrated with simple pencil drawings. Top Secret Recipes is a chatty and informative guide to recreating the burgers, candy bars, and cookies of your strip-mall dreams. --Naomi Gesinger Sort of the junk-food version of Helen Witty and Elizabeth S. Colchie's Better Than Store-Bought ( LJ 5/15/79), this offers recipes for Hostess Twinkies, Cracker Jacks, Wendy's Chili, McDonald's Big Mac, and other such favorites. These are not, however, top-secret formulas cadged from the companies but Wilbur's own recipes, some more successful than others, along with architectural cross sections of such constructions as Egg McMuffins. A novelty item, but some cooks are sure to find it fun. Literary Guild selection. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Praise for Todd Wilbur's   #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. Fridays 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 For more than 25 years,  Todd Wilbur  has been reverse-engineering America's most iconic foods for his series of 11  Top Secret Recipes  cookbooks. With over 5 million books in print, the self-proclaimed "food hacker" has appeared in over 100 media outlets including  The New York Times ,  People Magazine ,  Newsweek ,  The Daily News ,  Entertainment Weekly ,  The Oprah Winfrey Show ,  The Today Show ,  Good Morning America ,  Fox & Friends ,  The Dr. Oz Show , and  The Food Network .  His website www.TopSecretRecipes.com is the #1 copycat recipes website with 1 million visitors every month. He lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.