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All Hands On Deck Tosi, center, believes in bonding over baking. Here she prepares her Greta Sugar Cookie Squares with friends Behrens, left, and Mar.

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Milk Bar Life: Recipes & Stories [Christina Tosi] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Go off the clock with Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar as she bakes one-bowl treats, grills with skills. Apr 19, 2015. The Milk Bar phenomenon began at David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar in Manhattan, where Christina Tosi started out writing a food safety plan and ended up a pastry chef. Tosi's second book, the newly released “Milk Bar Life: Recipes and Stories” (Clarkson Potter, $35) is a very different creature. I'm staring at the cover of Milk Bar Life, trying to figure out what to say about Christina Tosi's newest cookbook, when I look up and see her face. Another recipe—the Grilled Ham and Cheese Corn Cookie—calls not for corn powder but rather for its offspring, Milk Bar Corn Cookies (these serve as the.

When I admit this to Christina Tosi, the wildly imaginative founder of the Milk Bar bakeries (a spin-off of David Chang's Momofuku), inventor of the super-addictive, much-praised Crack Pie, and enthusiastic slumber-party hostess, she says, 'I totally understand that. I was the hugest dork growing up.'

These days the 33-year-old Virginia native is one of the most in-demand food personalities in the country, with friends and fans including Karlie Kloss and Aziz Ansari. She's also releasing her second cookbook, Milk Bar Life, a personal follow-up to the more dessert-driven Momofuku Milk Bar. Her new book is a collection of sweet and savory dishes Tosi likes to make and serve off the clock, and it's a reflection of her playful worldview. 'We never want to grow up,' she says, speaking for herself and her Milk Bar crew. 'We're serious when it makes a difference, but we're ridiculous when it doesn't.'

To celebrate, Tosi (who films MasterChef and MasterChef Junior in Los Angeles) invited over three former Milk Bar bakers—Marian Mar, Leslie Behrens, and Courtney McBroom—for a girls' night. On the menu:,,, a boozy, and, named for Tosi's mother. They're perfect for a slumber party—or a brunch, a casual dinner party, or a late-night supper. Read her tricks of the trade here: Her Essential Kitchen Tools Tosi recommends having on hand four pieces of equipment, at minimum: a toaster oven ('You can bake in it, and you can definitely make Party Nachos in it'); a slow cooker or a microwave, for warming up snacks; a wooden spoon, for mixing cookie batter; and a sharp knife ('It makes everything coming out of your kitchen look super professional'). Anything else is icing. 'Limitation breeds creativity,' she says.

'The giggles and bonding come when you're like, 'OK, I have this amazing recipe from this amazing chef, and it says we need X, Y, and Z. We have none of those things, so how can we make do with what we've got?' ' To her point, everything she and her friends whip up could be made with those four tools. A Menu for Any Occasion Tosi suggests making an equal number of sweet and savory dishes for a girls' night in.

'You have to be able to read the crowd,' she says. For late-night munchies, she likes Party Nachos; the next morning she transforms leftovers into a Tex-Mex breakfast casserole by adding eggs, sausage, cottage cheese, milk, and cheese, then baking. A special celebration warrants rib eyes, fresh popovers, and creamed spinach, Tosi says. But cooking well doesn't mean cooking complicatedly. One of her favorite dishes to prepare is a beef roast with gravy that calls for four ingredients: condensed cream of mushroom soup, dried onion soup mix, canned tomato sauce, and beef brisket. She just stirs together the first three components in a baking dish, adds the brisket, coats it with the mixture, and covers it loosely with aluminum foil before roasting it for two and a half to three hours.