Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's Cheese Dip Copycat Recipe
The pretzel dip - milder and thinner than a queso, built to stay liquid in a paper pot. Eight minutes.
All our copycat fast food recipes, by type
92 recipes, grouped by what they are. Every one carries scalable batches, cups and metric measurements, a cost comparison and a troubleshooting section - And every one was written from scratch rather than generated from a menu.
Next recipe, a CoCo Ichibanya one: tomorrow. We publish one every three days. Get told when prices move and you will see them as they land.
Sauces & dips
The fastest wins - ten minutes, a bowl, pennies.
McDonald's
Big Mac Sauce Copycat Recipe
Eight minutes, one bowl, no cooking. The sweet pickle relish base that every 'secret sauce' recipe gets wrong, and th…
Burger King
Burger King Zesty Sauce Copycat Recipe
The onion ring dip. Horseradish, ketchup and mayonnaise, with a kick that arrives late. Five minutes and an hour in t…
Chili's
Chili's Honey Chipotle Sauce Copycat Recipe
Honey, hot sauce and adobo, simmered until it clings. Eight minutes and four ingredients that matter.
Mains
Burgers, sandwiches, chicken, pizza and the big plates.
Burger King
Burger King Chicken Royale Copycat Recipe
A breadcrumbed chicken fillet, shredded lettuce and mayonnaise in a long sesame bun. Deliberately plain, and the crum…
Burger King
Burger King Whopper Copycat Recipe
A flame-grilled quarter-pound patty, a serious quantity of mayonnaise, and more raw vegetable than any other chain bu…
Five Guys
Five Guys Burger Copycat Recipe
Two smashed patties by default, no seasoning in the meat, and a free-for-all of toppings. Fifteen minutes.
Jollibee
Jollibee Jolly Spaghetti Copycat Recipe
Sweet tomato sauce with banana ketchup, hot dog slices and grated cheese. Thirty minutes, and it feeds four for under…
Sides
Fries, wings, bread, slaw and everything beside the main.
CoCo Ichibanya
CoCo Ichibanya Curry Rice Copycat Recipe
Short grain rice cooked so it holds its shape under sauce - rinsed, rested and plated as a bank rather than a heap.
Domino's Pizza
Domino's Chicken Strippers Copycat Recipe
Breaded chicken strips baked on a rack rather than fried, with a dredge that crisps in a domestic oven. Thirty minute…
Five Guys
Five Guys Cajun Fries Copycat Recipe
Skin-on potatoes, fried twice at two temperatures, tossed hot in Cajun seasoning. The oil is doing more of the flavou…
Jollibee
Jollibee Chickenjoy Gravy Copycat Recipe
A dark roux gravy with soy and more black pepper than seems reasonable. Fifteen minutes.
Seasoning blends
Dry rubs and spice mixes worth a jar in the cupboard.
Five Guys
Five Guys Cajun Seasoning Copycat Recipe
Paprika-heavy, salty, with celery salt underneath. Ninety seconds and a jar that lasts six months.
KFC
KFC 11 Herbs and Spices Seasoning Copycat Recipe
The blend itself, in proportions that actually work, with the two ingredients that carry it and the one nobody wants …
Wingstop
Wingstop Louisiana Rub Copycat Recipe
Paprika, cayenne, garlic and oregano, tossed with butter onto hot wings. Three minutes for the blend.
Bakes & doughs
Buns, bases, pretzels, biscuits and doughnuts.
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzel Copycat Recipe
An ordinary bread dough put through an alkaline bath, buttered twice, and salted with coarse crystals. Thirty minutes…
Domino's Pizza
Domino's Pizza Dough Copycat Recipe
A pressed rather than tossed dough, cold-fermented for two days. Fifteen minutes of work, and the fridge does the rest.
Hardee's
Hardee's Buttermilk Biscuit Copycat Recipe
Grated frozen butter, a folded dough, and a cutter pressed straight down. Twenty-five minutes from a standing start.
Outback Steakhouse
Outback Honey Wheat Bread Copycat Recipe
A soft honey-and-molasses wheat loaf coloured with cocoa, rolled in oats. Two and a half hours, mostly rising.
Drinks
Coffee-shop syrups, iced coffees and blended drinks.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins Milkshake Copycat Recipe
Four parts ice cream to one part milk, blended briefly. Ninety seconds, and the only real mistake is over-blending.
Black Canyon Coffee
Black Canyon Thai Iced Coffee Copycat Recipe
Dark coffee, condensed milk stirred in hot, evaporated milk poured over ice. Five minutes and about thirty pence a glass.
Coffee World
Coffee World Caramel Frappe Copycat Recipe
A blended iced coffee built on coffee ice cubes, so it gets stronger as it melts instead of weaker.
Costa Coffee
Costa Flat White Copycat Recipe
Two ristretto shots, 130 ml of milk steamed to a wet paint texture, no foam cap. The dark-roast bean is what makes it…
Desserts
Frozen, fried and frosted.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins Hot Fudge Sundae Copycat Recipe
A proper hot fudge sauce - thick, glossy and made with cocoa and butter - over ice cream. Eight minutes for the sauce.
Chili's
Chili's Molten Chocolate Cake Copycat Recipe
A deliberately under-baked chocolate sponge with a liquid centre. Twenty minutes total, and the oven timer is the who…
Cinnabon
Cinnabon Classic Roll Copycat Recipe
An enriched dough, a filling that is a third cinnamon by volume, and a cream cheese frosting with a much higher chees…
Cold Stone Creamery
Cold Stone Cake Batter Ice Cream Copycat Recipe
A sweet cream base flavoured with dry cake mix that has been heat-treated first. Ten extra minutes, and it is not optional.
Breakfast
The morning menu, made better at home.
Hardee's
Hardee's Sausage Gravy Copycat Recipe
Browned breakfast sausage, a roux in its own fat, milk and a startling amount of black pepper. Fifteen minutes.
McDonald's
McDonald's Hash Brown Copycat Recipe
Grated potato, parboiled, squeezed brutally dry, formed into ovals and shallow fried. The squeezing is the recipe.
McDonald's
McDonald's Sausage and Egg McMuffin Copycat Recipe
A sage-heavy sausage patty, an egg cooked in a ring, and a properly toasted muffin. Fifteen minutes, and better than …
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