14 Childhood Treats Recipes

Homemade Snickers Bars1/14

Know what really satisfies? Making your own gooey, peanutty, caramel-y, milk chocolate-y Snickers candy bars at home without any of those nasty preservatives or artificial anything.

Toaster Tarts2/14

Though we love Pop-Tarts dearly, even as kids we thought the packaged pastries ought to taste better. Fruiter. Flakier. Fresher. Like these.

Big glass bowl of layers of vanilla wafer banana pudding topped with sliced bananas, Nilla wafers, and whipped cream

Vanilla Wafer Banana Pudding3/14

Not a lot has changed since you last had this after-school classic. It's still easy. It's still quick. And it's still gosh darned comforting as heck.

They look like fudgsicles. They taste like fudgesicles. Yet they're made cocoa, coconut milk, and honey so you don't even have to do that thing where you pretend that something's healthy. Because it actually is.

Confetti Cookies5/14

Cloudy with a chance of sprinkles. That's our forecast for anyone who wishes to recreate the sugar cookies of their childhood.

A bowl of homemade nutella with a spoon resting in it

Homemade Nutella6/14

No longer are you safe from temptation just because you summoned enough fortitude to skip the Nutella aisle at the store. Not safe at all.

A pink homemade Hostess sno ball--coconut-covered dome--on a white plate with two more in the back

Homemade Sno Balls7/14

Fashioned from chocolate cake, filled and frosted with meringue, and festooned in a feathery pink coconut boa, these are the real deal.

Homemade Animal Crackers8/14

Homemade animal crackers kick store-bought animal crackers to the curb. Made from scratch with natural ingredients, they're gonna remake all your memories of those stale, bland animal crackers in the circus box.

Twinkie Bundt Cake9/14

A relatively ginormous riff on the iconic American snack cake, this Twinkie look-alike boasts an amped-up vanilla smack and ingredients you can actually pronounce.

Homemade Hostess Cupcakes10/14

Unequivocally and unspeakably better than those preservative-laden, shrink-wrapped cake imposters you grew up on. Swear.

Homemade Thin Mints11/14

Tired of waiting and waiting and waiting for your boxes of Girl Scout Thin Mints to arrive? Not with this trusty recipe.

Milano Cookies12/14

Forget Pepperidge Farm. Where’s the satisfaction in just ripping the bag open? Where's the longing that comes with anticipation? Right here with these homemade Milanos.