Recreating Christina Tosi's Milk Bar Compost Cookies From Taste | Reverse Engineering | Bon Appétit

We challenged resident Bon Appétit supertaster Chris Morocco to recreate Christina Tosi of Milk Bar's Compost Cookies in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen. The catch? He'll have to identify what he's making with a blindfold over his eyes, letting each of his other senses guide the way. Will Chris be able to reproduce these famous cookies without being able to see them?

Director: Cory Cavin
Director of Photography: Eric Brouse
Editor: Kris Knight
Host: Chris Morocco
Sr. Culinary Director: Kelly Janke
Producer: Halie Aaron
Culinary Producer: Kat Boytsova
Culinary Associate Producer: Leslie Raney
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Yoshivel Chirinos
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Kirsten Potts
Audio: Mike Guggino
Production Assistant: Jamal Abdinasir Mohamed
Production Assistant: Justine Ramirez
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward




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[fubbychucker]

I would love to see this as a competition with Chris up against someone else

[omaralikhan]

That face mask had me dying! It was like it was made for his entire personality!

[carriehampton]

He figures out the corn syrup? REALLY? That is some next level talent. WOW

[Avvisoful]

I'm really impressed how he instantly found out which recipe it is

[asquithmainlines]

This was a cookie master class. I was amazed how Chris took a recipe with a ridiculous amount of ingredients and somehow duplicated the taste, texture and appearance without using the same ingredients. A true master. I just watched her make these on an Austrailian T.V. show and she made no mention of the graham cracker crust.

[Nastyhoops]

finally fair judging on the end - someone not afraid to be honest with Chris! must be a weird dynamic since he is more senior than the people choosing the recipes

[TabyPilgrim]

the mask is staring into my soul and i don't like it

[claska]

recreating baking recipes is SO much harder than cooking recipes and this shows it! There's so much exact science that goes into baking that we dont even think about

[mmarksz]

Her cookie looked so much better, and you can see it when they do the close-up side-by-side. Pretty amazing how little subtleties in ratios and techniques (like resting them in the fridge) can impact the final outcome so much. I'm sure his tasted good and they didn't look bad, but the fact that hers was a fine-tuned recipe and technique really showed.

[stephaniealvarado]

Shout-out to the editing. The background music and zoom ins to the missing graham crust had me cracking up! Love these videos, always on the lookout for them!

[kvpdesign]

This face mask 😂 It looked like Chris, keeping an eye on the oven while watching the crew to make sure nobody was sabotaging him 😂 Epic!

[doubledude]

You need to let him remake one of his own.

[Seatek_Ark]

Tbh this one was like a trick question lol. You didn't know that part of the definition of compost cookie was inclusion of coffee, and the things Christina does to offset the graham cracker mix makes it almost impossible to tell it does have graham crackers in it...

[GFDIAA]

The editing and the drama and the doubts reminded me of good ol Gourmet Makes

[Wileylikethehawk]

I’d be like “Um…. I think it’s a cookie? Maybe?”

His skills are insane.

[maiarossini]

Loved the knowledge that both Chris and Kat shared about baking in this! So fun!

[philippb.]

My favourite episode so far! I love when desserts or vegetarian dishes are features!

[maggien]

Him cutting the pretzel that was sticking up made me die

[IAMDOLWOTA]

Having to recreate a specific cookie recipe in this format is pretty mean of a task if we're being honest lol. Although I was a little annoyed that he chose not to chill the cookie on principle when he 100% knew it was always going to be one. Impressive result regardless, bravo Chris!

[serenasmith]

Awe I love watching Chris. I've never seen him so stumped by a recipe before! That was a tough one with the graham crackers, milk powder, light brown sugar, corn syrup. So many random ingredients!