THE BEST Snacks

Halloween 2020 is going to be different than normal, with trick-or-treating restricted for many. Vintage Candy Co.’s care package is a great way to make the holiday special. It comes with more than 90 candies including some full-size bars, hard-to-find treats, and decorative skulls, eyeballs, pumpkins, and fangs.

Do you love the taste of fresh-baked soft pretzels? Just add butter, and Farm Steady’s kit gives you everything else you need to make delicious and chewy homemade pretzels. The kit makes a dozen pretzels, along with yummy beer cheese to dip them in (BYO beer). Also available without the cheese.

Love the delicious cinnamon-sugar flavor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch? B&G Foods has announced it’s releasing a seasoning blend that combines those flavors with vanilla and graham, making it a perfect topping for ice cream, cakes, cookies, and more. Cinnadust is a Sam’s Club exclusive and expected in stores around 9.1.2020.

Ali Ali’s silly commercial envisions a world where Egyptian bakery company Edita is struggling to move its HoHos snack cakes, and how one clever employee comes up with a simple design change to send sales through the roof. We wonder what these could these guys do to sell more Twinkies.

Pringles teamed up with Wendy’s to create a limited-time flavor inspired by the tasty Baconator burger. Through the wonders of food technology, each potato crisp tastes like beef, American cheese, applewood-smoked bacon, ketchup, and mayo. Each can comes with a code for a free Baconator with purchase via the Wendy’s app.

Hah. You and your nine-layer dip. Tasty host Alvin Zhou and his guest Kelsey Impicciche have you beat by an 11.1-to-1 ratio. Watch as they assemble this insane party snack which seems like it would be impossible to dig into without a shovel. And yes folks, every layer has a different ingredient. The layering fun starts at 4:04.

A few years back, we had the opportunity to taste several prototype flavors for Lay’s potato chips. Now, a tasty new flavor has gone into production, with chips that replicate the delicious flavor of a grilled cheese sammie and a cup of tomato soup. Available for a limited time starting on 10/21/19.

Bon Appétit pastry chef Claire Saffitz takes a stab at replicating one of our favorite guilty pleasures, Pop-Tarts. We’ve had some gourmet hand pies before, but never one that looked as accurate, tasty, or toaster-friendly as Claire’s.

A look inside the factory where The Piping Gourmets make their gluten-free whoopie pies. While mixing up the ingredients is a pretty mundane task, we loved watching the machines that precisely squirt out the cake batter and frosting. We also love the way the narrator says “whoo-pee.”

Love you some Pringles? Just remember that next time you chow down on one of those neatly-stacked, perfect potato chips, you’re actually eating a delicious pressed, formed, and precision-cut mush of potato flakes. They’re like the Chicken McNuggets of chips.

Celebrate the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones with these limited-edition treats. The classic chocolate and creme-filled Oreos come embossed with sigils for House Lannister, House Targaryen, House Stark, along with a cookie for the Night King.

Say cheers to Hilliard’s Craft Beer Brittle. Cooked in copper kettles, and packed with crunchy spanish peanuts, fresh brewed beer from the Shovel Town Brewery creates a buttery, nutty flavor with enough hoppiness to balance things out. Perfect for microbrew fans.

Looking for something a little different from ordinary caramel and cheese corn? Look no further than HR Poppin’ Snacks popcorn. They come in tasty flavors like S’mores, cookie dough, PB&J, lemon drop, root beer float, strawberry vanilla, and even Mountain Dew.

Snack cakes in ice cream form with the help of Nestle. There’s CupCakes: chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake, cream frosting; Twinkies: buttercream ice cream, sponge cake, vanilla frosting; and Sno Balls: marshmallow ice cream, chocolate cake, coconut swirl. Coming soon.

Ever wanted to taste the crazy snack foods they sell in Japan? NapaJapan ships such delicacies as Sour Cream and Butter Pringles, Mountain Dew Cheetos, Green Tea Latte Oreos, Ginger Ale Cough Drops and other oddities worldwide.

KIND’s first foray into savory protein snacks are a real winner. They taste delicious, and remind us more of a meal than sweet bars. Flavors include roasted jalapeno, honey mustard, thai sweet chili, hickory smoked, and honey smoked BBQ.

Combining the spicy, vinegary hot sauce flavor of Buffalo Wild Wings with the crunch of Ruffles, these delicious deep-ridged potato chips are a gift from the gods of snack food. Great with ranch dip or right out of the bag.

Replicate the classic oval shape of Twinkies with this special electric griddle. Its six non-stick molds crank out warm pastries in four to seven minutes. Includes recipes for classic, chocolate and red velvet Twinkies.

Chips Ahoy! have been releasing a bevy of exciting new flavors for our mouth holes lately. Their latest offering, Brownie Filled Chewy Chips Ahoy! is a hopefully delicious dalliance between chocolate chip cookies and brownies.

The Kale Factory’s healthy dried kale chips taste as good as junk food, in flavors like vegan cheese, sea salt & vinegar, bombay ranch and spicy miso. Once you’ve devoured them, reuse the wood gift box.

Unlike jalapeno-flavored chips, Deano’s Jalapeno Chips are made of deep-fried, fresh jalapeno slices. They come in cheddar, sea salt and ranch. Sounds like a great snack or burger/salad topping.

Craving some sugary sweets at your desk, and already filled up on mini donuts? Get your hands on this essential bit of cookery, and you’ll be popping tiny cupcakes in your mouth in 5 minutes flat.