Head to the kitchen with the kids with Jennifer Steinhauer as your guide.
Her cookbook, Treat Yourself: 70 Classic Snacks You Loved as a Kid (and Still Love Today) (Clarkson Potter, $19.99) hits all the biggies (Nilla Wafers, Oreos, Fritos). And her sense of humor and coaching make even squeezing lines of pastel-tinted Candy Dots onto paper or creating Sort-Of Windmills fun.
More important, if you make them with your kids, you can talk about your childhood. It’s available at bookstores nationwide.
— Judy Hevrdejs
Chicago Tribune