Does anyone have a filling similar to the kind used in twinkies or hostess cupcakes? I'm making chocolate cupcakes and would like a creamy filling for it.

Here's what I found from CC:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2292-3-Twinkie-Filling.html

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1284-2-Twinkie-Cake.html

HTH

Oooh that's good stuff...I hear it lasts forever! lol.

Hey there!
I use the cream filling that goes with the Giant Ding Dong Cake in the recipe section..its really yummy. I tried the "twinkie" filling and thought it was gritty and disgusting. Just my opinion..hope that helps!!

Cindy

I used the twinkie filling last week for cupcakes and didn't really care for it. It didn't have much flavor.

someone here described the Whimsical Bakehouse House Buttercream as being similar to Twinkie filling. i haven't tried it myself.

I used the twinkie filling recipe I found on this site. I thought it was pretty good, and my cupcakes were a hit. They were devil's food chocolate cupcakes, piped them full of the filling, then dipped them in chocolate ganache and topped them with a little swirl of filling. Everyone loved them ...

If you're not in the mood to make your own, I believe it's Duncan Hines that has a new "super whipped" vanilla icing on the market. I got it at the grocery store (to be used by daughter for a french class project), and the cans are much taller. It's reallly very similar to twinkie filling. Her class enjoyed it.

Ok so this is probably a stupid question....how do you fill cupcakes...just stick the tip in the cupcake from the top?

Yes, you just stick your icing tip in and fill your cupcakes.

what tip do you use, just a large round one?

Yes, just use a tip, stick it in the top, and fill. Now, before you do that though, do a practice run to determine how many seconds of squeezing give you enough filling. You don't want to have some with lots of filling, some with little, and some almost bursting the sides Firmer fillings will take more seconds than thiner lighter fillings

now I wanna make some cupcakes! LOL

I have had two requests for the twinkie filling in the past couple weeks. It is wonderful. I do have a couple suggestions though. Once it was finished I tasted it and it was a little floury. I added more sugar and more vanilla until it had the taste I wanted to achieve.

I filled mini cakes with it. What I did was took the leg of one of the tiers of my cakes (hollow cylinder) put it up in the mini cake and pulled it out. It made a perfect hole in the cake. Then I took part of what I took out and broke it off and used it as a plug at the bottom after filling the minicake. This way I didn't have to worry about pumping it in and maybe exploding my cakes or deforming them.

Here is a picture of what I used (the pillar).