Homemade Twinkies

Ingredients:

for the sponge cake:
two cups flour
1 loving cup milk, at room temperature
1 loving cup sugar
8 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
two eggs, at room temperature
1 tablespoon baking powder
two teaspoons vanilla

for the cream filling:
1/2 loving cup milk
1/2 loving cup confectioners sugar
1/2 loving cup mutual coldness butter
two 1/2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon banana flavoring/extract
1/2 teaspoon salt


Directions:

for the cream filling:
In a modest pan, mix flour alongside milk together with boil until thick. Cool. Beat until fluffy together with add together other ingredients 1 at a time, beating good afterwards each addition. Refrigerate 1 hour. The cream should hold upward mutual coldness together with rather potent when you lot pipage it into the cake, the human activity of piping volition soften it to the right consistency.

for the sponge cake:
Preheat oven to 350. Thoroughly grease 8 to 12 wells inward a "cream canoe" pan. Whisk together flour together with baking pulverization inward a bowl. Set aside. Stir the vanilla into the milk. Set aside. Cream the butter together with saccharide inward a large bowl until fluffy. Beat inward eggs 1 at a time, until it is really lite together with fluffy. Add flour mixture alternately alongside the milk, showtime together with ending alongside the flour mixture, thoroughly incorporating each add-on earlier adding the next. Pour into prepared pans.

Note: cheque the instructions on your pan, but I would recommend filling them most halfway, at that topographic point is a lot of leavening inward the the batter.


Bake for xv minutes, or until the cakes are only golden together with a toothpick inserted inward the pump of the pump cupcake comes out clean. Remove from the oven, invert to a wire rack together with cool completely earlier filling. Use a pastry pocketbook or cream filling gun (one comes alongside the pan I linked to) together with arrive at sum 3 holes on the underside of the cake alongside cream. Slightly overfill each hole, therefore run your pollex to tamp it in.

My thoughts:

We planned a other homemade Hostess cakes earlier but never only manifestly Twinkies. The master copy Twinkies were banana flavored therefore that it what appears hither but if you lot prefer to brand to a greater extent than "modern" Twinkies, run vanilla extract instead of banana. They were similar the best Twinkies you lot would imagine: fluffy, non besides sweetness together with alongside a wonderful creamy center. And fresh tasting! It seems a chip fiddly to brand but honestly, they were no to a greater extent than hard than making regular cupcakes.