Over stores later, Auntie Anne's is one of the most requested secret clone recipes around, especially on the internet. Many of the copycat Auntie Anne's soft pretzel recipes passed around the Web require bread flour, and some use honey as a sweetener. But by studying the Auntie Anne's home pretzel-making kit in the secret underground laboratory, I've discovered a better solution for re-creating the delicious mall treats than any clone recipe out there. For the best quality dough, you just need all-purpose flour.
And powdered sugar works great to perfectly sweeten the dough. Now you just have to decide if you want to make the more traditional salted pretzels, or the sweet cinnamon sugar-coated kind. Decisions, decisions. Find more of my copycat recipes for famous muffins, bagels, and rolls here. There are many acceptable ways to formulate good queso, but to make this specific queso the ingredients must be correct, and most copycat recipes seem to get it wrong.
A few recipes get one of the peppers and two of the cheeses right, but pretty much every recipe out there is a bit of a mess that I will now save you from. And you won't need to gum up the queso with flour or cornstarch by making a roux because the white American cheese in the mix contains sodium citrate or sodium phosphate—additives that help the cheese melt smoothly and stay that way. Those are red bell peppers and they are roasted, peeled, and seeded along with the poblano and jalapenos before they are diced and added to the cheese sauce.
The sauce cooks on low heat, never bubbling, so that it stays smooth and creamy. When done, the queso might seem thin in the pan, but it will thicken as it cools to a perfect consistency for dipping tortilla chips, or as a topping for tacos and burrito bowls. A popular staple of any Chinese chain is the fried rice so it better be good, and the version served at Panda Express most certainly is. But I do suggest that you cook the white rice several hours or even a day or two before you plan to make the finished dish.
I found that the cooked rice called for in this recipe works best when it's cold. As for a shortcut, bagged frozen peas and carrots will save you from the hassle of petite-dicing carrots since the carrots in those bags are the perfect size to produce an identical clone. And they're already cooked. Find all my Panda Express copycat recipes here. Their confidential baked beans formula is considered one of the top 10 biggest recipe secrets in the U. Sales jumped from 10 thousand cases in the first year to over thousand cases in And just one year later sales hit a million cases.
A replica of the original recipe book—without the original recipe in it drat! Country Style is similar to Original, but richer, with more brown sugar. The recipe starts by soaking dry small white beans in a brine overnight. You can skip this step if you've got a fancy Instant Pot using my directions below.
This recipe was our 5 most popular in Once that was done, I measured increments of balsamic glaze into the alfredo sauce until the color and flavor matched the original. The rest of the recipe was easy. This recipe will make two servings of the dish and includes preparation for the tenderloins and sauce.
We serve our Chicken Parmigiana with a side of spaghetti for dinner. Give yourself an extra hour for this important marinating step. While the sauce cooks, filling your house with its intoxicating aroma, the chicken is breaded and browned. When the marinara is done, top the chicken with the sauce and mozzarella and stick it under your hot broiler until bubbling. Hopefully, everyone at your house is hungry, because the Olive Garden dinner portion is two chicken fillets, and this recipe will yield a total of four 2-piece servings.
Add a small serving of spaghetti on the side, topped with more of the delicious sauce, and you'll have a perfect match to the restaurant plate. Can't get enough Olive Garden? Click here for more of my copycat recipes. These are cream scones, so cream is the main wet ingredient that holds the dough together—but keep the dough crumbly as you mix it, and try not to compress it much, or you risk making the final product too dense.
Then use one hand to place the dough onto the baking sheet and form it into a rough dome shape. The scones will flatten and spread out a little bit as they bake. It may look like it's all chocolate, but Wendy's founder Dave Thomas thought that a purely chocolate frozen dairy dessert would overpower his burger and fries, so he mixed chocolate with vanilla to create his signature ultra-thick shake, and in , the Frosty was born.
My first crack at this iconic treat was revealed in a copycat recipe I published 25 years ago that called for mixing milk with Nestle Quik and vanilla ice cream in a blender. Sure, it was. But the finished product was too runny, and the flavor wasn't perfect. That's why I recently holed myself up in the lab and created a formula that you churn in a home ice cream maker until thick and creamy, and it now tastes just like the real thing.
Unlike my previous recipe, which relied on premade ice cream and a drink mix, the scratch ingredients I used here allowed me to make small adjustments in flavor for a better match, and an ice cream maker is the perfect way to produce a thick, creamy consistency. So far, this is the best hack I've come up with to duplicate the treat that tests have shown is up to twice as thick as other famous desserts in a cup, including Dairy Queen's Blizzard and McDonald's McFlurry.
Realizing that steady income from an acting and singing career can be undependable, Jimmy invested his show-biz money in a hog farm. In the Jimmy Dean Meat Company developed the special recipe for sausage that has now become a household name. Today the company is part of the Sara Lee Corporation, and Jimmy retired as company spokesman in This clone recipe re-creates three varieties of the famous roll sausage that you form into patties and cook in a skillet.
Use ground pork found at the supermarket—make it lean pork if you like—or grind some up yourself if you have a meat grinder.
Check out more of my famous breakfast food clone recipes here. Braised and shredded pork shoulder is a staple of Mexican cuisine that Chipotle prepares with a simple blend of flavors, and a surprising ingredient you may not have expected: juniper berries. Then you can use your freshly cloned carnitas on tacos, in burritos, or in a bowl over rice and beans just like they do in the restaurant. When picking your pork roast, try to find one without too much fat. If your roast has a thick cap of fat on it, trim off the excess.
The pork butt, also known as a Boston butt, is cut from the other end, the upper shoulder of the pig. The talented chefs at Benihana cook food on hibachi grills with flair and charisma, treating the preparation like a tiny stage show.
They juggle salt and pepper shakers, trim food with lightning speed, and flip the shrimp and mushrooms perfectly onto serving plates or into their tall chef's hat. One of the side dishes that everyone seems to love is the fried rice. At Benihana this dish is prepared by chefs with precooked rice on open hibachi grills, and is ordered a la cart to complement any Benihana entree, including Hibachi Steak and Chicken.
I like when the rice is thrown onto the hot hibachi grill and seems to come alive as it sizzles and dances around like a bunch of little jumping beans. Okay, so I'm easily amused. This Benihana Japanese fried rice recipe will go well with just about any Japanese entree and can be partially prepared ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator until the rest of the meal is close to done. The Southern-themed chain famous for its gift shops filled with made-in-America products and delicious homestyle food is also known to have a particularly good meatloaf.
Making meatloaf is easy. After playing around with the eggs-to-breadcrumbs-to-milk ratios and being careful to use gentle hands when combining everything and pressing it into the loaf pan, the final batch was a winner and I get to pass it along to you. It's best to use a meatloaf pan here which has an insert that lets the fat drip to the bottom, away from the meat. Satisfy your Cracker Barrel cravings with more of my copycat recipes here. In Kentucky Fried Chicken bigwigs decided to improve the image of America's third-largest fast-food chain.
As a more health-conscious society began to affect sales of fried chicken, the company changed its name to KFC and introduced a lighter fare of skinless chicken. In the last forty years KFC has experienced extraordinary growth. Five years after first franchising the business, Colonel Harland Sanders had outlets in the United States and Canada.
Four years later there were more than franchises, including one in England, the first overseas outlet. In John Y. Brown, Jr. Only seven years later, in Heublein, Inc. That means PepsiCo owns more fast food outlets than any other company including McDonald's. At each KFC restaurant, workers blend real buttermilk with a dry blend to create the well-known KFC buttermilk biscuits recipe that have made a popular menu item since their introduction in They work great as a side for any meal.
In the detailed description of the new item, Einstein Bros. The other is onion-and-chive cream cheese, which we can make from scratch. Mix everything together and load the ingredients into a standard cup muffin pan with circles of parchment paper cut out to fit into the bottom of the 12 cups. Bake them the first time for 30 minutes, then cool and store. Now you have a dozen servings of cheesy hash brown potatoes that are easy to finish off by baking them a second time until crispy.
They are great served with breakfast, or for dinner as your starchy side alongside beef, chicken, lamb, and many other savory entrees. You can also make homemade Einstein Bros bagels , sandwiches, and shmears. See if I hacked your favorites here. Served with garlic mashed potatoes. This recipe includes a marsala sauce that even marsala sauce haters will like.
My wife is one of those haters, but when she tried this sauce, her eyes lit up and she begged for more. Build it, sauce it, serve it. The presentation is awesome, and the flavor will soothe your soul. Stuffed Chicken Marsala experience. Over a century ago, Detroit, Michigan became the Coney Island chili dog capital of the world, even though Coney Island is nowhere near there.
Greek immigrants who entered the U. When they settled in southern Michigan, many opened restaurants to sell their clones of the food they ate when they first got to America, turning New York-style Coney Dogs into a Midwest phenomenon.
The two buildings were originally one building with a single restaurant inside, built by brothers Gus and Bill Keros in But somewhere along the way the brothers had a falling out and split the restaurant in half, right down the middle, and it stayed that way. Today, the two Coney Island restaurants are under different ownership, but they still remain next-door rivals. Built the traditional way, a typical Detroit Coney Island chili dog features a natural-casing hot dog in a soft white bun, smothered in chili sauce, drizzled with mustard, and topped with a pile of diced sweet onion.
The kit came with everything I needed, including the tub of chili with clearly-labeled ingredients that I was counting on. With the help of that information, I was able to create a thick, flavorful chili sauce that you can use on your favorite hot dogs to make a delicious clone.
Crushed soda crackers thicken the chili, and extra beef fat adds a smooth quality that mimics the famous year-old recipe. The chili must simmer for four hours to properly tenderize the meat, so plan your Coney dog cloning adventure accordingly. Try making your other favorite condiments at home, like ketchup or mustard , with my copycat recipes here.
The barbecue at Jim N' Nick's is good food. But it's the irresistible mini cheese biscuits served with every meal that have become the signature specialty of this store chain. The sweet little biscuits are made from scratch every day at each restaurant using the same wholesome ingredients I'm including here. It's much cheaper than buying the bag of mix, and the biscuits come out better when you use fresh buttermilk rather than relying on the powdered buttermilk included in the dry mix.
Use a mini muffin pan here to make your biscuits the same size as the originals or use a standard muffin pan, if that's all you've got, for bigger muffins. It will take a little longer to cook the larger biscuits instructions are below , but they will still turn out as addictively delicious as the famous tiny restaurant originals.
Now, what's for dinner? Find recipes your favorite entrees here. In the Summer of , to the dismay of many fans, KFC stopped selling the famous potato wedges that had been on the menu for decades and replaced them with battered French fries. Like the wedges, these fries are coated with a flavorful batter, but the seasoning used on the fries is a different blend than what was used on the wedges. Are these new fries better than the classic wedges?
That depends. Some may prefer the rare treat of fast food skin-on wedges, while others may prefer the crispiness of these new fries. The hack here is simplified by using par-fried French fries found in the freezer section of your store. After coating the fries with this clone of the seasoned breading, spray them with water, then fry them for 3 to 4 minutes.
Be sure to have a clean squirt bottle filled with water to transform the breading into a thin batter giving your finished product the same crispy coating as the original. The blend of vegetable powders adds great flavor, but if you want to omit the celery and carrot powders and just use onion powder, the recipe will still make delicious copycat fries.
Why it took so long, I have no idea. As it turns out, that small can is just the right amount. That will be just long enough to braise the beef and tenderize it, and to thicken the chili to a perfect consistency.
Then pass out the spoons. Check here more of my Chili's copycat recipes. Menu Description : "Made from scratch in our kitchens using fresh Grade A Fancy Russet potatoes, fresh chopped onion, natural Colby cheese and spices.
Baked fresh all day long. He wanted to create a special place that would arouse curiosity, and would pull travelers off the highways.
In he opened the first Cracker Barrel just off Interstate 40 in Lebanon, Tennessee, offering gas, country-style food, and a selection of antiques for sale. Today there are over stores in 41 states, with each restaurant still designed as a country rest stop and gift store.
In fact, those stores which carry an average of 4, different items apiece have made Cracker Barrel the largest retailer of American-made finished crafts in the United States. Those who know Cracker Barrel love the restaurant for its delicious home-style breakfasts. This casserole, made with hash brown-sliced potatoes, Colby cheese, milk, beef broth, and spices is served with many of the classic breakfast dishes at the restaurant. The recipe here is designed for a skillet that is also safe to put in the oven so no plastic handles.
If you don't have one of those, you can easily transfer the casserole to a baking dish after it is done cooking on the stove. Love Cracker Barrel? Check out my other clone recipes here. One of the ingredients in the soup, according to the posted list, is yeast extract. A little bit of nooch will provide the umami deliciousness that replaces chicken broth or bouillon. Panera keeps its soup gluten-free by thickening it with a combination of rice flour and cornstarch, rather than wheat flour.
In the early 90's Boston Chicken was rockin' it. The home meal replacement chain's stock was soaring and the lines were filled with hungry customers waiting to sink their teeth into a serving of the chain's delicious rotisserie chicken. So successful was the chain with chicken, that the company quickly decided it was time to introduce other entree selections, the first of which was a delicious barbecue sauce-covered ground sirloin meatloaf.
But offering the other entrees presented the company with a dilemma: what to do about the name. The bigwigs decided it was time to change the name to Boston Market, to reflect a wider menu. That meant replacing signs on hundreds of units and retooling the marketing campaigns.
That name change, plus rapid expansion of the chain and growth of other similar home-style meal concepts sent the company into a tailspin. By , Boston Market's goose was cooked, and the company filed for bankruptcy. Soon McDonald's stepped in to purchase the company, with the idea of closing many of the stores for good, and slapping Golden Arches on the rest. But that plan was scrapped when, after selling many of the under-performing Boston Markets, the chain began to fly once again.
Within a year of the acquisition Boston Market was profitable, and those meals with the home-cooked taste are still being served at over Boston Market restaurants across the country. How about some of those famous Boston Market side-dishes to go with your copycat meatloaf recipe? I've cloned all the best ones here. Beef jerky is usually made in a dehydrator designed to circulate air around the food at a low temperature.
The temperature for drying beef jerky in a dehydrator is typically to degrees, which is a lower temperature than you can reach with a conventional home oven.
The pineapple juice in the marinade is an important part of the taste, but its primary contribution is a unique enzyme that helps break down the proteins in the tough cut of meat to tenderize it. Soy sauce and beef bouillon contribute to the umami savoriness of the jerky, and liquid hickory smoke is used in this hack as a quick way to add the smoky flavor.
And to help you out, I'm including step photos. Find more cool recipes for your favorite snacks here. The real Dole Whip is a non-dairy dessert that includes artificial flavoring, a small amount of real pineapple juice, and more gums than a candy store.
Everything in this Hawaiian ice cream is combined in a powdered form including the pineapple juice in 4. On the back of the Dole Whip mix are instructions to dissolve the powder in 2 gallons of cold tap water, then immediately pour the syrup into a soft serve machine and hit the switch.
Up until now, almost all recipes that claim to reproduce Dole Whip—including one shared by Disneyland during the coronavirus outbreak—include ice cream, to make what is supposed to be a "non-dairy" dessert one that is quite full of dairy.
The results you get from these recipes may be tasty, but they are nothing like Dole Whip because Dole Whip is sorbet and sorbet isn't made with ice cream. One thing that makes Dole Whip special is its creamy consistency, which may lead some people to believe it has dairy in it. Dole Whip creates this thickness with the assistance of six different natural gums and gels: cellulose gum, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum, karaya gum, and pectin.
In addition, there is a small amount of coconut fat solids in the mix to help simulate the fat found in dairy. For this hack, I limited the gels to two that are easy to find: unflavored gelatin and pectin.
Another trick often used to help thicken sorbets is the use of viscous corn syrup to replace much of the sugar. Corn syrup will give the sorbet body and it helps tone down the acidic pineapple juice. But the best part of this Dole Whip copycat recipe, unlike the real thing, is that it contains all-natural ingredients and it's mostly made of real Dole pineapple juice, plus a little tangerine juice to round out the flavor and enrich the color.
This homemade Dole Whip is ridiculously easy to make you'll need an ice cream maker and fans of the real thing will love it. Click here for more of my hacks of delicious desserts and sweet treats.
First, you must brine the chicken to fill it with flavor and keep it juicy like the real thing. The pasta shape Chick-fil-A uses in their soup is an uncommon one, and you might have a hard time finding it at your local market.
Click here for more of my Chick-fil-A clone recipes. If you feel like diving into a pile of wings with big flavor and no heat, you'll love this hack of a top pick at Wingstop. At the restaurant, these wings are deliciously doused with a buttery garlic Parmesan baste and then sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese.
A home clone is easy when you toss crispy wings in this hack of the top secret baste and top them with a snowfall of good Parmesan cheese.
Parmesan cheese, garlic, and salt are mixed in, then the sauce is set aside to cool and thicken. Once the wings are fried to a golden brown, toss them with the baste in a bowl, then grab the grated Parm and make it snow.
Check out my other Wingstop clone recipes here. After several weeks of trying different approaches to proofing these cinnamon bit—filled bagels, I decided the best solution was to form the bagels and proof them overnight in the cold. The next day the bagels came out of the refrigerator not much bigger, but after sitting for several hours at room temperature they more than doubled in size and had a light sourdough flavor like the original. The cinnamon drops that go into the bagel were also tricky.
I found the best way was to make oven-cooked cinnamon candy bound with cornstarch and milk and tenderized with oil. This sugar mixture is baked in a loaf pan until no longer bubbling, then cooled and shattered into tiny pieces. When the candy is broken up, much of it gets pulverized into dust, which you separate from the crumbs with a sieve.
Some techniques call for malt in the water, but sugar works just fine and makes the perfectly shiny, blistered crust you see in the photo. Panera Bread has amazing soups too! See if I hacked your favorite here. I incorporated all those missing ingredients into this new hack recipe, tweaked a few other things, and then tested several methods of braising the beef so that it comes out perfectly tender: covered, uncovered, and a combo.
The technique I settled on was cooking the sauce covered for 2 hours, then uncovered for 1 additional hour so that the sauce reduces and the beef transforms into a fork-flakeable flavor bomb.
Just know that a wide noodle works best. Even fettuccine is good here. For the little bit of alfredo sauce spooned into the middle of the dish I went with a premade bottled sauce to save time.
And browse my other Olive Garden clone recipes here. Served with a warm garlic breadstick. In , I published a clone recipe for T. But as the years pass and menus get tweaked, old food favorites are decommissioned to make way for fresh, new ideas. Sometimes the new dishes are twists on old favorites, as is this improved version of the classic Spicy Cajun Chicken Pasta, which now includes extra-large shrimp and a better spicy alfredo sauce.
Prep the chicken and creamy sauce in one pan; the shrimp, bell pepper, and garlic in another. There's a lot more T. Friday's clone recipes over here.
This dessert is an easy one to prep in the restaurant since the cakes are made ahead of time and chilled until ordered. Once an order comes in the cake is zapped for a minute in the microwave, then topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and surrounded by dollops of whipped cream.
You can prepare yours this way at home as well—make your cakes in advance, then chill them until dessert time. Or, you can serve the cakes right after they come out of the oven. Either way works. To make the batter I used a stand mixer with the paddle attachment and it worked great, but a hand-held granny mixer also works. Find more amazing CPK copycat recipes here. It's packed with lots of shredded white and dark meat chicken, potatoes, peas, and carrots; all of it swimming in a delicious creamy gravy and topped with a tantalizing flakey crust.
It seems more like homemade food than fast food. And now it can be made at home better than ever before with this improved hack of my original recipe. What a delicious treat for a weekend breakfast.
I totally get you. I like to think of myself as someone who would prefer to make things from scratch — and I am — but that doesn't mean that stuff like these cinnamon rolls aren't incredibly tasty. Those people spend a lot of time and money researching how to make things appealing. My downfall is Cool Whip. Woah, it just occurred to me … I could probably put Cool Whip on these….
Oh goodness…. I usually do not make at home either…cause they take too long. I have to try these. My family would love them! I just finished making these and they are delicious! I made these for my kids this morning. Thank you so much, and I might have licked the pan. Absolutely delicious!! Will definitely be making these again! Your web page looks great. I am looking forward to the recipes you will post.
Also, can we post a recipe too? Thank you and GOD Bless. Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Subscribe Get free weekly updates! Now you can make some easy cinnamon melts at home in 30 minutes! Prep Time. Cook Time. Total Time. Cinnamon Melts. Place in the preheated oven for minutes, or until the biscuits are baked through.
For the glaze : beat together the glaze ingredients until smooth. Pour the glaze evenly over the slightly cooled biscuits. Thank you for reading A Taste of Madness. You can stay connected with me here:. Previous Post: « Ginger Molasses Cookies. Subscribe for your weekly recipe fix.
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