Puzzle #68: The 4-H Club (cryptic)

Hi friends!

Super jazzed to bring you a cryptic this week. As usual, these are a lot of work and a lot of fun. Copious thanks to Norah Sharpe, MP, and Steve Mossberg, for helping to test and improve this puzzle, and to Frisco for some inspiration.

If you're completely new to cryptics, watching a stream is one of the best ways to start learning how they work. Here are some channels I've enjoyed that solve cryptics, some of which have been nice enough to stream some of mine:

A reminder that I include parses along with the solution-those will show you not only the answer but how the wordplay works. If you've got a question about any notation in there, feel free to ask--the most common is FODDER* to indicate those letters are being anagrammed.

Next week, a themeless with a novel method of seed generation! Talk soon.

.puz

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Solution and parse

Mmm, banana pudding bars

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