Commercial Recipes
I get e-mails from people who say they called Archway Cookie Company or some other company and asked them for their Cherry Chip Cookie recipe (or some other commercial product recipe) and Archway (or whoever) wouldn't give it to them.
Archway or any big company doesn't make cookies in a little kitchen somewhere. No, they put 50 pounds of flour and 30 pounds of sugar, and other ingredients in a big mixing machine and do a big run of cookies at one time. So, even if you got their recipe, it wouldn't help you a bit.
What you really want is a copycat recipe, a recipe to make a small amount of cookies in your kitchen that taste like Archway Cherry Chip Cookies (or whatever).
See also:
Copycat Recipes
and
Bakery Recipes
and
Restaurant Recipes
