Pop-Tarts to Gold Fish: 7 Snack Foods to Make at Home

Emma Christensen
Emma Christensen
Emma is a former editor for The Kitchn and a graduate of the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts. She is the author of True Brews and Brew Better Beer. Check out her website for more cooking stories
published Mar 18, 2011
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A friend of mine recently asked for help brainstorming some good DIY junk food ideas for a party she’s going to in a few weeks. We had so much fun finding recipes for things like homemade snickers, oreos, and pop-tarts that I just had to share! Have you ever tried making anything like this at home?

• Homemade Pop-Tarts from Joanne Chang’s Flour Bakery – These have been hanging out on my list ever since we first posted about them last year.

• Homemade Mallomars from The Kitchn – A bit labor intensive to make these, but so very worth it.

• Cheddar Crackers from Home Cooking in Montana – We didn’t believe we could make a Gold Fish-esque cracker at home until we tried these.

• Homemade Candy Bars from Chow.com – Peanut butter cups, snickers bars, almond joys, twix…hoooo boy!

• Vanilla Snack Cakes from King Arthur Flour – These are your basic Twinkies, but probably several orders of magnitude better.

• Homemade Oreos from Smitten Kitchen – So cute! All you need is a glass of milk.

• Deliciously Dandy Ding Dongs from Tasty Kitchen – These are always a winner in my book.

Any others that you’ve made at home? Or wish you could make at home?!

Related: DIY Recipe: Gingerbread Lattsauté

(Images: Poptarts – courtesy of Chronicle Books, copyright Keller + Keller, Cheddar Crackers – Emma Christensen)

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