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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Homemade Twinkies

    Published: Jan 9, 2015 · Updated: Jan 9, 2015 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    Homemade Twinkies

    Homemade Twinkies

    An Amish woman in Oklahoma shares with us a recipe for homemade Twinkies!  Ah, Heaven.  I haven't eaten a real Twinkie in a long, long, long time  (I'm perfectly capable of becoming overweight without eating them, thank you).  But a homemade Twinkie?  Now that is intriguing!

    Personally I did not miss Twinkies too much when they disappeared from store shelves for awhile back in 2013.  A regional brand, TastyKakes, quickly filled the void around here.  Not that I bought TastyKakes any more than I ever bought Twinkies.  I think Hostess came out with a "healthy Twinkie" back in the "Fat free" craze days, but the it was so small that you could pop it into your mouth in one bite.  Not much of a snack.  This homemade recipe is more my speed!

    As is typical with many Amish recipes instructions on this recipe are a little bare and spare, but if you can figure them out I think you'll have an awesome dessert!  There is no baking time given in the version that I have so you'll have to monitor it carefully.

     

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    Homemade Twinkies
     
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    Prep time
    15 mins
    Cook time
    30 mins
    Total time
    45 mins
     
    Serves: 12 servings
    Ingredients
    • Cake: 1- 3 ounce package instant vanilla pudding
    • 1 cup water
    • 1 yellow cake mix
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 /2 cup oil
    • Frosting:
    • 1 /2 cup crisco
    • 2 cups powdered sugar
    • 1 /4 cup milk
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    Instructions
    1. Mix cake mix, pudding, eggs, water and oil. Grease 2 sheet cake pans: line with wax paper greased on both sides.
    2. Divide batter evenly into the two greased pans.
    3. Bake at 350 until done.
    4. Cool
    5. Mix frosting.
    6. Spread onto one cake.
    7. Invert the other on top.
    8. Cool and serve
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    About Kevin Williams

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

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    1. Joyce Yoder

      January 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm

      My daughter and I often make this recipe. Bake at 350 degrees in 2 jelly roll pans for appr. 10-12 minutes-don't overbake! A yummy variation is to use devils food cake mix. Tastes very similar to whoopie pies but much quicker and easier to make!!

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      • Kevin

        January 11, 2015 at 6:38 pm

        Yum, thanks for sharing, Joyce

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