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The highly anticipated complement to the New York Times bestselling Momofuku cookbook, Momofuku Milk Bar reveals the recipes for the innovative, addictive cookies, pies, cakes, ice creams, and more from the wildly popular Milk Bar bakery. Momofuku Milk Bar shares the recipes for Christina Tosi’s fantastic desserts—the now-legendary riffs on childhood flavors and down-home classics (all essentially derived from ten mother recipes)—along with the compelling narrative of the unlikely beginnings of this quirky bakery’s success. It all started one day when Momofuku founder David Chang asked Christina to make a dessert for dinner that night. Just like that, the pastry program at Momofuku began. Christina’s playful desserts, including the compost cookie, a chunky chocolate-chip cookie studded with crunchy salty pretzels and coffee grounds; the crack pie, a sugary-buttery confection as craveable as the name implies; the cereal milk ice cream, made from everyone’s favorite part of a nutritious breakfast—the milk at the bottom of a bowl of cereal; and the easy layer cakes that forgo fancy frosting in favor of unfinished edges that hint at the yumminess inside helped the restaurants earn praise from the New York Times and the Michelin Guide and led to the opening of Milk Bar, which now draws fans from around the country and the world. With all the recipes for the bakery’s most beloved desserts—along with ones for savory baked goods that take a page from Chang’s Asian-flavored cuisine, such as Kimchi Croissants with Blue Cheese—and 100 color photographs, Momofuku Milk Bar makes baking irresistible off-beat treats at home both foolproof and fun.
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I love this cookbook. I geeked out over all the behind-the-scenes stuff that Christina Tosi put into the introduction and on the recipes. I also appreciated the hell out of her emphasis on precision – from precise ingredient measurements to precise oven temperature. I love recipes that tell me exactly what I need to do, and Tosi delivers that here.
Having said that, there are a few ingredients that are difficult to get if you don't live in a city or just a place that has a diverse enough population to have things like glucose, passion fruit puree, freeze-dried corn, etc. She also recommends some kitchen supplies that not everyone will have readily available (like a chinoise). Luckily, we live in the age of Amazon, and I've been able to find most everything there.
I find the structure of this cookbook really helpful. She gives you master recipes, then ways to vary the recipes, and then even more recipes that use the master recipes as an ingredient. There's a lot of room for creativity, and everything I've made so far as been super delicious.
Overcomplicated and somehow dense, which is rare for a cookbook. The intro was SO LONG and reading the recipes requires a lot of back and forth and hunting for component recipes then puzzling the whole thing together.