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DIY Snack Cakes For Bored Kids and Exasperated Adults

Published May 12, 2020

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Kate Bittman

For people with young kids, staying at home all day, every day, without childcare, has been a “challenge” (by this point, most of those parents are, understandably, putting it far less delicately). It’s been a long time since I’ve been in that category, but my eldest daughter, Kate, is right in the thick of it with my 4-year-old grandson. She wrote this little piece, which I’m calling “When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Make Twinkies.” The recipe is below. Here’s Kate.

-Mark

I, too, am at home with a young child, wondering what in the name of all that is holy to do with him for 12 hours a day, worry rising over the fact that I don’t have what it takes to give him what he needs intellectually on a regular basis.

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