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Feeling nostalgic for the snacks you grew up with? In this video, Nicole puts her own spin on 10 of her favorite childhood snacks from the ’80s, reinventing the classics with easy homemade recipes that might just taste even better than you remember. From after-school favorites to sweet treats, these nostalgic snacks are packed with familiar flavors and plenty of childhood memories.
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00:00Grab your scrunchies and rewind the VCR
00:02because we're taking it back to the 80s
00:04to revisit and recreate the snacks
00:06that made my childhood taste so great.
00:08I'm starting with a freezer classic
00:09and I'm giving it a little upgrade.
00:11The old pizza rolls.
00:13Instead of popping them in the microwave
00:15or the oven like we used to do back then,
00:17we're gonna air fry these and toss them in a garlic butter.
00:21Giving them a little adult twist.
00:23They're gonna go for about five minutes,
00:24give them a toss and go another five minutes.
00:26And while that happens, we're gonna make the liquid gold
00:28that takes these to a whole other level.
00:30I'm just gonna melt some butter in a skillet.
00:32You could also do this in the microwave.
00:33So while the butter is melting,
00:34I'm gonna go in with fresh garlic.
00:36That way as it's melting,
00:38it is slowly infusing with the garlic flavor.
00:41You don't really want the garlic to brown or anything.
00:44Once it starts kind of simmering,
00:45let it go about a minute or two.
00:47We're gonna pour this over those pizza rolls
00:50and give them a toss.
00:53When they start to ooze, that's when they're ready.
00:56I'm gonna pour the butter over and give them a toss.
00:59I know, as if they weren't already indulgent.
01:02And we're not even done.
01:04Toss them with some grated parm too.
01:07See, we've really just upgraded these.
01:08You were still a baby when these came out.
01:11True.
01:12A little sprinkle of parm and a little fresh parsley.
01:16You know, it's gonna be so hot inside.
01:19That was the one thing about these.
01:26I think I could eat that entire basket.
01:33This was just an amazing invention.
01:34Preparing them like this makes them a million times better,
01:37although we know they were good just as is.
01:40If you haven't had a pizza roll in a while,
01:41this is the way to bring them back.
01:44This next one is one of my favorite breakfasts
01:46that also doubled as an after-school snack,
01:48so I would have maybe two a day, the toaster strudel.
01:52While there are different flavors of the toaster strudel,
01:55the cream cheese danish, far superior.
01:59We're recreating these, which I did for a TikTok video
02:04a while back, and of course, it got rave reviews.
02:07These are really easy to recreate,
02:09so it does make for a fun snack or breakfast.
02:12Everything was about convenience,
02:14so if it didn't go in the microwave, it went in the toaster.
02:17So I'm gonna take some butter and thinly slice it.
02:21Okay, then I'm gonna put two pats of butter down.
02:23I'm gonna build six little stations here.
02:26Top that with brown sugar.
02:27So when this starts to bake,
02:29that's gonna form a little bit of like a crust on the outside.
02:34I've taken the cream cheese
02:35and put it in the freezer for a while,
02:36that way it's easier to slice.
02:38You're gonna take each cream cheese slice
02:40and place it horizontally onto your butter sections.
02:44Okay, now you're gonna take a sheet of puff pastry,
02:46roll it out slightly, and cut it into six sections.
02:49It's already kind of perforated for you into three sections,
02:53so basically you're just cutting it in half.
02:55Place it over the filling and then press down the sides
02:59so that the filling stays in.
03:00Take a fork and crimp the edges.
03:04Final step is to brush the top with egg wash.
03:07This is gonna give it a shine
03:08and also kind of help it stick.
03:11Can you anticipate all the snacks
03:12that we still have left to do?
03:14Of course, I took a poll to see
03:15what everyone's favorite childhood snacks were.
03:18And when I say childhood, we are referring to the 80s.
03:22And you would think I'd get like a million answers,
03:24but everybody had like the same answers.
03:27So I know these are the most popular.
03:28These aren't gonna be, you know,
03:30as perfect as the factory-made strudels.
03:33But when you take a bite into it, you will not care.
03:36To the oven we go, 400 degrees for about 15 or so minutes.
03:41Okay, hot and bubbly.
03:43You can see a lot of it has oozed out.
03:46Don't fret.
03:46You can kind of scoop some of that sugary goodness back in.
03:50And as it cools, it'll thicken and it'll stay.
03:53So you want to let them cool for about 10 to 15 minutes.
03:56For the frosting, it is just simply powdered sugar
03:59with a little milk.
04:00I like to eat it upside down so that I see that cream cheese.
04:03I can just taste it already before I taste it.
04:06Trust me, you are going to want to make this.
04:12Mmm.
04:13It's just so much better.
04:14It's richer.
04:15The puff pastry is super buttery.
04:17It's like you can taste every ingredient we put in here.
04:20There's nothing chemical tasting in this.
04:22I feel like if I bit into a toaster strudel now,
04:26I'd probably really be able to taste the chemicals.
04:29Better than a toaster strudel.
04:31Easiest way to make a cream cheese danish ever.
04:34And you will not be disappointed.
04:36The Ultimate 80s Loaded Potato Skins.
04:39This was a fave at some restaurants.
04:43I feel like you know the restaurants.
04:45Then the restaurant came out with a freezer version
04:48so you could have these at home.
04:49They were not the same.
04:51Cut your potatoes in half and scoop out the flesh.
04:55Do not waste that.
04:57You can make you a little batch of mashed potatoes.
05:00And your future self at dinner will thank you.
05:03So you're going to scoop out about, I don't know, 80% of the flesh.
05:06I like to leave a little potato in there around the edges.
05:09I feel like people don't make these,
05:12but if somebody has these at their party, I'm so excited.
05:16I feel like people think it's a lot of work.
05:18I'm going to show you that it's really quite easy.
05:21Another good one to remember for football season.
05:24Once they're all scooped out, take some melted butter,
05:28combine it with some olive oil so we get crisp and flavor.
05:32And then I'm going to brush these on the inside and outside
05:36with this mixture and sprinkle with salt.
05:38Then into the air fryer, just fit in as many as you can.
05:42I'm going 400 because I want them to be brown and crispy.
05:46Fried potato skins, crispy underneath.
05:49I mean, it feels fried and looks fried,
05:52but these already look so much better
05:53than what you get in a freezer section.
05:55So what I'm going to do is go ahead and top them
05:58with some cheese and bacon.
06:00I'm making these loaded and then just pop them back
06:02in the air fryer for just, you know, probably take less than a minute.
06:08And you know, to finish loading them up,
06:09a little sour cream and chives, but I mean green onions.
06:12And I'm going a little black pepper.
06:16Reinventing and making them even better.
06:19If this doesn't scream your childhood, I don't know what does.
06:22And each one is a giant perfect bite.
06:25Mmm.
06:27Why do we forget about these?
06:28Adding the butter and the olive oil makes these get really crispy.
06:33That good buttery flavor is in there.
06:35It's just nice and more salty.
06:36It's perfect.
06:37What shall we make next?
06:39Oh, I know.
06:40How about my favorite food in the entire world?
06:42As soon as I said that, I hope you said,
06:44oh, she must be making chips and dip.
06:46One of the most popular answers when I said,
06:50what is your favorite snack from your childhood?
06:52Onion dip and chips.
06:54Now we always bought the one pre-made in the refrigerator section,
06:57but you don't have to buy it refrigerated.
07:00You can make your own with some sour cream
07:03and basically a few pantry staples.
07:05In our town, it was called party dip.
07:07If you know, you know.
07:08And that was before fat grams counted.
07:10Everything's a pantry staple.
07:11The only fresh element, some fresh chives,
07:14and you're going to cut them super small
07:16just to add that kind of bright, fresh oniony flavor.
07:20Okay, then we're adding onion powder.
07:23This to me is what makes it.
07:25It's got to be onion powder.
07:25Also a little garlic powder and salt and pepper.
07:28See, you didn't even know it was that easy, did you?
07:30Now this is going to get better as the flavors come together
07:33and kind of marry in there.
07:37My favorite food ever, right here.
07:39I mean, that is a thing of beauty.
07:42Make sure it's not poisonous.
07:48My drug of choice.
07:50People can get as fancy as they want with their appetizers or snacks.
07:53This will hit every single time.
07:56Even today, I might pop a little spoonful of caviar right on top and make it real fancy.
08:00How about a little something sweet to balance out the salty?
08:03This snack I vow to bring back for my kids this school year.
08:07The ultimate after-school snack or breakfast cinnamon sugar toast.
08:11Hello.
08:12Yes.
08:13Did anyone have this for your cinnamon sugar?
08:15I feel a little neglected because I did not have this.
08:19But this is my boss's sugar and cinnamon from when he was a kid.
08:23Now this is not the same cinnamon sugar since he was a kid, but the same container.
08:27And his mom just keeps refilling it.
08:30How sweet is that?
08:31This is how my mom used to make it.
08:33It's all the same, but I feel like some people made it differently.
08:36Tell you what somebody did was toast the bread and then spread butter and sugar cinnamon on it.
08:41Absolutely not.
08:42That is not the way.
08:43Now my mom used to slice the butter, obviously, and would just put the pats of butter on here
08:49and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar.
08:51And then the butter would never really spread to the edges of the bread.
08:54I will not deprive my kids like that.
08:56I'm going to make sure every inch of bread has butter on it.
09:00Hey, Natalie.
09:01Yeah.
09:02Did you have cinnamon toast as a kid or is that before your time?
09:05No, every day.
09:07Every day.
09:08See?
09:09For breakfast.
09:09See, guys?
09:11I'm not old enough to be her mother.
09:14I don't think my mom even bought cinnamon sugar.
09:16Also, she wouldn't mix it first.
09:17It would be the sugar and then cinnamon, so the cinnamon would also be in the lines.
09:20Maybe I should make a piece like she would.
09:22Just sections of butter.
09:24She's probably going to be watching this and say,
09:26you are such a liar.
09:26I did not do it like that.
09:28That's what I remember.
09:29Now, if I was doing this today, I would probably do just like a really high oven.
09:33That way it toasts evenly and all around, but not our cinnamon toast.
09:37It was mostly just toasted on the top.
09:39Because it just went straight under the broiler.
09:41Fortunately, our ovens have a low broil setting now.
09:44She also used to leave it on high and do it like that.
09:49Well, can you see the difference in my version versus my mom's version?
09:53No shade, mom.
09:55She might have had something going, actually.
09:57Because you get like bits of crunchy around the butter.
09:59She did it on purpose.
10:02Nostalgia on a plate right here.
10:09Simplicity at its absolute finest.
10:12I know you don't want to hear the knife scratch, but you need to see just what the cinnamon sugar
10:17does.
10:19It just caramelizes and gets crunchy.
10:22It's like a little candy.
10:24But the bottom, because we broiled it, is nice and soft.
10:28So the butter just kind of sinks into that good old healthy white bread.
10:33Cinnamon toast might be the number one answer of nostalgic snacks.
10:37Another sweet treat and my favorite popsicle from my childhood, the jello pudding pop.
10:43You know the one I'm talking about.
10:45Smooth on the outside and then it had this like really thin layer of ice.
10:50You know, when you get it and you kind of like have to melt that little layer off to get
10:55to the pudding part.
10:56Why don't they make those anymore?
10:58Tell me why.
11:00Although I realized how easy they are to make.
11:02If they taste as good as I remember, then I will be making these for my kids.
11:06Or just for me.
11:07Two cups of milk.
11:09And then it's a half a cup of evaporated milk.
11:11Quarter cup of sugar.
11:12And then we whisk in our chocolate pudding.
11:15You just want to mix this until it's all dissolved and well combined.
11:19I'm going to pour it in here just so it's easy to transfer to the popsicle molds.
11:25This is the shape.
11:27Okay.
11:27You can find this popsicle mold and I don't think it's expensive.
11:31Popped in the sticks to the freezer.
11:34But lucky for you, I did one yesterday.
11:38Let's see how we did.
11:40Probably have to dip this in hot water.
11:42But I don't want to lose the little crystal ice layer on top if there is one.
11:50Look, it kind of has the ice.
11:51You see that really thin little shard of ice on that?
12:01Oh my gosh.
12:02It's just like a fudge pop.
12:04If you love fudge pops, you can make your own at home this easy.
12:07That jello pudding pop has been reincarnated.
12:12It's really making me wish I would have swirled in some vanilla.
12:16I will be doing that next time.
12:18I'll be bringing these home.
12:20My son is going to love them.
12:23Any ideas as to what we're making now?
12:25Bagel bites, baby.
12:27Now this was for sure.
12:29My brothers could inhale these things.
12:31Bagel, sauce, cheese.
12:34You know the drill.
12:35But I think people forget they make little mini bagels.
12:38Now if you got the ones from the freezer section, this is what your cheese would look like.
12:42See?
12:43You can put your own cheese on there.
12:45When you make your own, you can do whatever you want.
12:47And then little mini pepperonis.
12:49The little bits of pepperoni is what used to be on them.
12:52Now they have these little mini pepperonis, which are perfect.
12:55And then we just bake them.
12:57425 degrees for just about 10 minutes.
12:59Ooey, gooey, bubbly, and toasty and crispy.
13:04Like everything else so far, kind of looks better than the original.
13:08When it comes time to eat them, I'm giving a little ode to my brother here.
13:11This was his combo for everything pizza.
13:15Ranch and hot sauce.
13:16And not just any hot sauce.
13:18This is the one.
13:19A little crispy on the bottom.
13:21How I like my pizza crust.
13:24To be young again when calories didn't matter.
13:28When I was making this, I sort of thought,
13:30what's the big deal?
13:31It's going to taste exactly like what came in the freezer section.
13:35It does, but it's better.
13:37Everything so far has just been a little bit better.
13:40Bagel Bites is a 10 out of 10 snack.
13:43Another top answer of popular childhood snacks, nachos.
13:48I'm going to do my mom's nachos, which three or four ingredients.
13:53She would break this out.
13:55Actually still breaks this out on game days.
13:57Chips, chili from a can, which I'm not mad at, okay?
14:01And you shouldn't be either.
14:03I love nachos so much.
14:05Sometimes they're over the top nachos, fully loaded.
14:08And sometimes they're like this.
14:11Almost a ballpark nacho, but a little better.
14:13My mom would use this as the cheese sauce, okay?
14:18It's soup, cheddar cheese soup.
14:20I tried using this a little while back and it just didn't feel the same.
14:25I feel like as time's gone on, they come out with, you know,
14:28some more gourmet options.
14:29So now I choose that.
14:30This is my upgrade.
14:31I wouldn't feel right making my own cheese sauce, okay?
14:34Something about this kind of stuff just hits.
14:37Grown up me would probably throw on some shredded cheese too,
14:41but that would be so 2000s.
14:43I wouldn't want to disappoint my kids.
14:45They'll be like, Mom, is this the way people ate in the 1900s?
14:49Yes.
14:50Just takes about eight to 10 minutes.
14:53You want to go high oven.
14:54And while it's hot, go on with your jalapenos.
14:57Ta-da!
14:59Mom's nachos.
15:00The best one is kind of after it sits for a while and gets a little bit soggy.
15:06The jalapenos make it.
15:07It's the 80s, baby.
15:09I thought I would bring it back in case you forgot.
15:11Tray of Perfect Bites.
15:14It's 1985 and you're at the mall.
15:17What are you getting?
15:18An orange Julius.
15:19That's what you're getting and that's what we're making.
15:21This is the snack slash treat you would get when you were out and about.
15:25And we have the recipe to make it.
15:26A little cream and milk.
15:28Also, you might not have known that this could be in it, but a banana.
15:32This helps it really get creamy and adds more sweetness.
15:36Now we start to get into the fun ingredients.
15:39Coffee creamer.
15:40It's just powdered milk with a little bit of like sweetener in there.
15:43In goes an egg.
15:44That's what it's going to give us.
15:45Extra frothiness.
15:47And now finally we add the orange to the orange Julius.
15:49It's just orange juice frozen concentrate.
15:52They used to have the little cans.
15:54They don't make those or I can't find those anymore.
15:56So you're going to use half of a big can.
15:58Then a splash of vanilla.
15:59A little bit of ice.
16:00Not too much.
16:01Recipe actually says six cubes.
16:03And here goes.
16:12I forgot something.
16:14The sugar.
16:15I just tasted it.
16:16I was like wait.
16:16It needs to be a little sweeter.
16:18It's because I forgot the sugar.
16:19And it's not a little bit.
16:22I feel like y'all can taste it.
16:24Drop me off at the mall mom.
16:27I could gulp this down so fast.
16:29This is creamy, dreamy, perfection.
16:32My banana might have been slightly on the larger side.
16:35I kind of taste that almost as much as the orange.
16:39But I also love that.
16:41I don't think the orange Julius stores are around anymore.
16:45But somebody should bring those back.
16:46You'd be a millionaire.
16:48And I got one more snack plate for you.
16:51Peanut butter was a daily occurrence at our house.
16:53100% of the time.
16:55So I thought I would just do a little tribute to peanut butter
16:57everything for the final snack.
16:58Of course, my favorite.
17:01The peanut butter on a saltine cracker.
17:04Again, we're going back to the ingredient household.
17:06I have brought this back and thrown it in my kids lunch.
17:10And I think they liked it.
17:12The peanut butter saltine.
17:13That's my favorite.
17:14My next favorite.
17:15Peanut butter and celery.
17:17This because we're healthy.
17:19We were not an ants on a log household.
17:22Ants on a log is celery and peanut butter.
17:24And then you put raisins on it.
17:26Thankfully, my mom didn't make us,
17:27didn't torture us like that.
17:29Now I would probably like it.
17:30And of course, you know about peanut butter and banana.
17:33My son does have this on a weekly basis.
17:37I know you've had apples and peanut butter.
17:38But this, I feel like this was my mom's creation that nobody else did.
17:44But let me know if your mom did this.
17:46First of all, it has to be a red delicious apple, which in case you haven't tried to find these,
17:52they're not very popular.
17:54We didn't have apple cores.
17:56So she would take a knife and run it around the core and just kind of scoop it out.
18:01I feel like I would like to confess right now that I don't even own an apple core.
18:06I usually just cut the sides off my apple and just cut around the core.
18:10But for this snack, you got to have the whole apple hollowed out.
18:13And then you just fill it with peanut butter.
18:15So then you don't have to like peanut butter every slice or dip the slices in.
18:19You now have a peanut butter filled donut, donut, not just try to trick yourself.
18:26A peanut butter filled apple.
18:27Now this is how we had our apples and peanut butter.
18:31I feel like you just like, you'd have to get your apple in before you'd really get
18:37to the peanut butter.
18:38I don't know how to eat this anymore.
18:41Mmm.
18:43It's a whole different experience.
18:45I know you're like, Nicole, you could have given us, you know, a more intense recipe.
18:50I've given you nine and I might have saved number 10 the best for last.
18:55This treat along with the other nine have taken me on the best trip down memory lane.
18:59And I hope you felt the same way.
19:05Tubular.
19:05Totally tubular.
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