Taste of Home Copycat Restaurant Favorites: Restaurant Faves Made Easy at Home

Within the first week, I made probably five or six of the recipes… I absolutely love this little cookbook, and I recommend it to everyone!

Perfect gift for someone that enjoys cooking. Easy recipes for anyone!!!

As pointed out by a previous reviewer, this cookbook features restaurant-inspired recipes rather than recipes that closely mimic restaurant originals.All of the recipes include or omit ingredients that are or are not in the restaurant version.I am only reviewing restaurants/items I am familiar with to be fair, but here are some examples:Recipe / Restaurant and itemp. 17. Cappuccino Cinnamon Rolls / Cinnabon's Classic Roll - The filling and icing portions of the recipe use instant coffee crystals and instant cappuccino mix, respectively, which are not used in Cinnabon's Classic Roll.p. 25 - Morning Orange Drink / Orange Julius' Orange Original - The recipe does not include dried egg white powder or milk powder, which are usually added to make the drink frothy.p. 28 - Coffee-Glazed Donuts / Dunkin Donuts' Plain Glazed Donut - This one is obvious. Why use a coffee glaze when the original donut uses a plain glaze?p. 51 - White Chocolate Cranberry Blondies / Starbucks' Cranberry Bliss Bar - The recipe does not include crystallized ginger, which is listed as an ingredient [in the bar] on Starbucks' website.p. 175 - Wisconsin Butter-Basted Burgers / Culvers' Original Butterburger - The recipe adds seaasoned salt and 1/2 lb of ground mushrooms, two ingredients that are not used in the Original Butterburger.p. 250 - Classic Chocolate Cake / Portillo's Famous Chocolate Cake - The recipe provided is a modified version of a vintage recipe found on the back of a Hershey's Cocoa can baked [as one layer] in a 13x9 pan. Portillo's serves a frosted, round layer cake.p. 63 - Pumpkin Spice Latte / Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte - The recipe uses ground ginger and nutmeg, but not pumpkin pie spice blend, which is used in Starbucks' version. How can it be called Pumpkin Spice Latte if it does not use pumpkin pie spice as an ingredient?The concept [for this cookbook] is good, but the recipes provided are too fast and loose with the ingredients when compared to their restaurant counterparts (or inspirations)—so much so that they really should not be called copycats.Had the recipes steered closer to the actual ingredients used in the restaurants and items chosen, my review might be more positive. For me, it just wasn't what I thought or expected it to be.My advice to others would be to preview the book before deciding to buy.

My mother saw this at a regular retail store and wanted it, so I found it for less on Amazon and bought it for her as a gift. She's excited to try some of these recipes.

I wanted to mention the photos first because I hate,hate,hate cookbooks without photos. Next I love collecting cookbooks that's my thing I'm almost embarrassed by how many I have-almost ;-). This book is about to get some serious use. Like another buyer mentioned it is "inspired" so they may have a little twist to the recipe that's not in the restaurant version like coffee glazed doughnuts for Dunkins glazed donut different yes but I'm still interested. If you want recipes more like the original try Todd Wilbur's copycat books they're awesome.