• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Amish 365
  • About
  • Amish Recipes
  • Amish Culture
  • Amish Marketplace
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Amish Recipes
  • Amish Culture
  • About
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
  • subscribe
    search icon
    Homepage link
    • Amish Recipes
    • Amish Culture
    • About
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
  • ×

    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Amish Homemade Little Debbies

    Published: Jul 17, 2014 · Updated: Jul 17, 2014 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

    Ah, Little Debbie. She has a snack for you.  I remember those jingles growing up.  Now I look at the ingredient label of these pre-packaged, processed snacks and kind of cringe.  But I still crave the occasional zebra cake.     My grandma would almost always have a box of Little Debbies on her kitchen counter when I was a kid, so there is a whiff of nostalgia for me whenever I see these cakes.   Why is it that my Grandma can be ticking along fine at age 89 and she's broken every health rule in the book, including years of snacking on Little Debbie cakes?  Once you make it to her age, I say just keep on doing what you're doing.

    Little Debbies are on my mind this morning because I saw these "coral reef cakes" on a display inside the supermarket.  Upon closer inspection they look like just a seasonal,summery cake of the kind they usual sell. But it still looked alluring and stoked nostalgia within me.  But, alas, I passed.

    coralreefcakes
    Among Little Debbies my favorites are probably the zebra cakes and oatmeal pies.  The Amish enjoy "copycat" recipes (I mean that in a fun way, not "gee why are you ripping off Little Debbie?").  I even had an Amish woman give me a recipe for homemade Pizza Hut breadsticks.  I have misplaced it, but I am determined to find it somewhere buried in the bowels of my office.  I have seen recipes for what are simply referred to as "homemade little debbies" in several Amish cookbooks over the years.  These resemble whoopie pies.  I think the key difference is that these are a chewy soft cookie sandwiched around some filling. Often traditional whoopie pies tend to be a light, fluffy cookie with a "matching filling" inside (i.e. peanut butter cookies with peanut butter filling equals a peanut butter whoopie pie).

    So enjoy this recipe that comes from an Amish woman in Ohio.  You can make your own "homemade little debbies" that aren't packed with preservatives or unpronouncable ingredient names!

     

    5.0 from 1 reviews
    Homemade Little Debbies
     
    Print
    Ingredients
    • ½ cup butter
    • ½ cup Crisco
    • 3 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
    • 4 large eggs
    • 3 cups quick oats
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 3 c flour
    • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
    • FILLING
    • 3 egg whites
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla
    • 4 c powdered sugar
    • 1½ c crisco
    • 5 tablespoon flour
    • 4 tablespoon milk
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
    2. Cream together sugar with the butter and shortening..
    3. Add eggs beating well, add vanilla and dry ingredients and beat together.
    4. Bake for 9-12 minutes until done but soft.
    5. FILLING:
    6. Beat egg whites (reserving yolks for another recipe) then once fluffy add vanilla and milk.
    7. Beat in powdered sugar, shortening and flour.
    8. Beat until light and frosting like.
    9. Once cookies are cool frost one and sandwich with another one.
    Wordpress Recipe Plugin by EasyRecipe
    3.2.2646

     

    « The Difference Between Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, Amish and Hutterite Cooking - Part I (Wild Strawberry Jam/Mennonite Meatloaf)
    Throwback Thursday: Water Pump and Water Where? »

    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Kentucky Lady 717

      July 17, 2014 at 6:41 pm

      Love those Little Debbie cakes.....still buy them, I have been eating them over 50 yrs. 🙂 and still buy them....my favorite are the oatmeal cakes & buddy bars......these look good, haven't seen them here in my area yet....I also used to buy the chocolate ones with white icing inside, I think they were called chocolate devil cakes those were good also.....I love the whoopie pies that you buy at the Amish stores........
      That's a great picture of you Kevin, you were quite handsome.........Rachel should have known you then eh? She would have married you a long time ago and you guys might have 4 or 5 kids by now 🙂

      Reply

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating




    Rate this recipe:  

    Primary Sidebar

    Kevin Williams - The Amish Editor Amish Cook Column

    Hi There, I'm Kevin!

    Welcome to Amish365, where I share my knowledge of Amish cooking and culture! I’ve spent almost three decades exploring Amish settlements and kitchens from Maine to Montana and almost everywhere in between. I’ll occasionally throw in stories of my travels, journalism adventures (I’m a Pulitzer prize-nominated journalist), fascination with grocery stores and Kmarts, and much more!

    More about me →

    Latest Amish Recipes

    • Homemade Chocolate Crunch Easter "Eggs"
      Homemade Coconut Crunch Easter Eggs
    • 5 Amish Copycat Recipes (Fast-Food Favorites: Big Mac Dressing, Pizza Hut, and More!)
    • Amish Wedding Customs and Traditions
    • Amish Wedding Cake
      Amish Wedding Cake Recipe
    dutchcrafters

    Download The "Almost Amish" Ebook

    Footer

    Footer

    About

    • About The Amish Editor
    • Download "Almost Amish" Ebook
    • Amish Communities
    • Amish Marketplace

    Contact

    • Work With Us
    • Contact

    *As a member of various affiliate programs I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Copyright © 2000 - 2020 Amish 365 | Powered by Touch The Road