Momofuku Milk Bar

Christina Tosi

Crown Publishing Group, Oct 25, 2011 - Cooking - 256 pages

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 bakery.

A runaway success, the Momofuku cookbook suffered from just one criticism among reviewers and fans: where were Christina Tosi’s fantastic desserts? 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; the easy layer cakes that forgo fancy frosting in favor of unfinished edges that hint at the yumminess inside.

Momofuku Milk Bar finally shares the recipes for these 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, and Christina’s playful desserts 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.


From the Hardcover edition.

What people are saying

Review: Momofuku Milk Bar

User Review  - Nicole - Goodreads

Beautiful pictures, nostalgic writing, stomach-grumbling recipes, but waaay too complicated to actually try at home. More of an art book, if anything!

Review: Momofuku Milk Bar

User Review  - Nicole Brown - Goodreads

Love this cookbook! The peanut butter cookies are fantastic! They recipes require a lot of ingredients and are fairly involved but I have enjoyed baking from this book a lot.

About the author

Christina Tosi is the chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, called “one of the most exciting bakeries in the country” by Bon Appétit. As founder of the dessert program at Momofuku, Christina helped Momofuku Ko earn two stars from the Michelin Guide and Momofuku Ssäm jump onto San Pellegrino’s Top 100 Restaurants in the World list at number 31. Shortlisted for a James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef Award, she was also named to the New York Times T Magazine’s Nifty Fifty list. Christina and her confections have appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and Live! with Regis and Kelly, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her three dogs and eats an unconscionable amount of raw cookie dough every day. Visit Christina at www.momofuku.com.


From the Hardcover edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Momofuku Milk Bar
• Author: Christina Tosi
• Contributor: David Chang
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307953300, 9780307953308
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Cakes; Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Cookies; Cooking / Methods / Baking